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.
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?