A political war of words is brewing in the former Transkei, in the Eastern Cape, over a cup of tea – or the lack thereof.
At least two people were killed by police in the Eastern Cape last night, after an altercation when the cops stopped them stealing goods from a truck.
The basic education department owed R28-million to Eastern Cape teachers, resulting in its assets being attached.
The fraud-busters are to investigate how R250 000 appeared in EC Premier Phumulo Masualle’s bank account around the time of Nelson Mandela’s funeral.
Where traditional beliefs are more real than textbooks, treating mental illness is a balancing act for sangomas and medical doctors alike.
After a court approved a claim by a group of Xhosa claimants, 17 landowners who lost a land claim bid say they are off to the Supreme Court of Appeal.
Despite internal party strife in Nelson Mandela Bay, the ANC crossed the 70% mark in the Eastern Cape, followed by the DA.
The suburb and township of Walmer in Port Elizabeth may share a name, but residents have vastly different life experiences and election hopes.
While some community members in the Northern Areas outside of Port Elizabeth say they will certainly vote ANC, others are saying the party is corrupt.
The M&G visits a rural family for the third time in a decade, only to find that little has changed.
The party is finding that the Eastern Cape does not intend to let bygones be bygones.
Three people have been arrested after a Pondoland initiate who lost his penis and spoke out about it in public was beaten for "shaming the custom".
Port Elizabeth police are on high alert in the Gelvendale area, after three shooting incidents were reported over two days.
Cope chief whip Nkosinathi Kuluta is still in his Eastern Cape legislative seat almost four weeks after defecting to the ANC.
Apartheid-era regionalism is a pervasive and damaging mind-set among our current rulers, writes Rapule Tabane.
Eastern Cape teachers may finally be paid and posts filled now that Legal Resources Centre has filed a class action lawsuit against the government.
The report about Ikhaya Loxolo, a home for the mentally disabled in the Eastern Cape, has sparked a dramatic response from government officials.
The Eastern Cape Department of Health has condemned handlers at an initiation school for denying three injured boys treatment.
Eastern Cape government has called an emergency meeting after 30 initiates were killed in the summer initiation season so far.
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/ 22 November 2013
Sihle Batiya’s luckier than most – but the odds are stacked against kids with Down’s syndrome in the Eastern Cape.
Severe weather has forced organisers to cut the Salomon Skyrun high-altitude endurance race short for only the second time in the race’s history.
Mentally disabled people in the rural Eastern Cape are considered worthless, even evil. When girls are sexually abused, mothers are no longer shocked.
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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.