Celebrate the fact that the Big Five are a hop, skip and jump away with another round at the pub.
Eastern Cape royals are campaigning to use medical circumcision in traditional rituals.
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/ 12 September 2013
The growing health crisis in the E Cape has forced Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi to intervene by commissioning a task team to investigate.
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/ 12 September 2013
At the coalface of care, nurses are bearing the brunt of the province’s critical shortages.
Advocacy groups are due to march to the Eastern Cape’s health MEC as part of a campaign against a "crisis" in health care access in the province.
The situation in the Eastern Cape health department is a "full-blown catastrophe", writes Trudy Thomas.
The Eastern Cape’s education department says it will counter the court order that will attach its movable assets after it failed to pay teachers.
Chaotic official data on school infrastructure in the Eastern Cape and chronic underspending are perpetuating poor learning conditions.
Following 30 initiates’ deaths and the hospitalisation of almost 300 boys in Eastern Cape, the health minister has lashed out at circumcision schools.
Five boys have died and one had to be castrated in the Eastern Cape after illegal circumcisions, according to the provincial health department.
A report released by health activists details mismanagement and shortages in Mthatha.
Médecins Sans Frontières says in five months there has been no improvement with Eastern Cape HIV and TB drug stock-outs.
The Eastern Cape’s provincial innovation hub was initially started in 2010 when the province established a pilot hub called Innovate Eastern Cape.
Despite its challenges, the Eastern Cape has the potential to become a booming economy.
In a far-flung district, a night-time ban on shebeens has wiped out violence in a village.
From broken windows to undignified toilets, Equal Education’s Julian Kesler shares his experience of the NGO’s tour of some Eastern Cape schools.
What, if anything, does the private healthcare sector have to offer the rural poor?
Irregular expenditure in Eastern Cape municipalities increased by over R1-billion over two years, for which the DA has blamed inept workers.
Officials in the Eastern Cape’s Mbizana municipality have been told to resign by the ANC’s top leaders, the party in the province has said.
Newspapers have reported the Eastern Cape’s minister of education said children who are dependent on their parents do not have any rights.
We speak to our education reporter about her experience in the Eastern Cape where too few teachers and appalling toilets seem to have become the norm.
Rural areas have always been at the bottom of the list when it comes to healthcare and expenditure.
Despite recent protests, floods and textbook delivery problems, more than 500 000 pupils sat for their first matric exam on Monday.
The ANC’s OR Tambo chairperson Thandekile Sabisa has been re-elected, dealing a blow to President Jacob Zuma’s bid to retain leadership of the party.
Boys in Mpondoland are going behind their parents’ backs to attend dodgy initiation schools that too often claim the lives of youths who would be men.
It started out with a bang, but land deals went sour and farms lie barren as the project stalls, writes Sipho Kings.
According to a report, an abortion takes place every 10 minutes at Eastern Cape clinics, putting strain on the province’s health resources.
Zothe is the driving force behind several innovative renewable energy efficiency projects inin Lady Frere, Kavali Village, in the Eastern Cape.
DA leader Helen Zille has apologised for referring to Eastern Cape pupils who had flocking to the Western Cape as "refugees".
A disgruntled teacher in the Eastern Cape has apparently tried to run over Lindiwe Mazibuko with her car for "wasting" children’s time.
In open defiance of the conditions of his suspension from the ANC, youth league leader Julius Malema has addressed a church service in Butterworth.
"Dismal system" means that many schools in the Eastern Cape don’t have enough teachers while others have too many of them.