Pupils from an Eastern Cape school that was torched amid a row over plans to improve its conditions, have not had any lessons for a week, now.
A misunderstanding over building materials has led to the torching of an Eastern Cape school, and the subsequent arrest of 98 children for arson.
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/ 27 February 2012
Five high ranking government officials have been arrested after an investigation into fraud and corruption involving R11-million.
Parliament wants the national education task team back in the Eastern Cape despite hostility from local officials.
Jabulani Foundation helps hospital by plugging financial holes, making doctors’ jobs easier.
The ANCYL in the Eastern Cape has resolved to ignore the prospect of Julius Malema’s suspension until after Mangaung in December.
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/ 26 January 2012
The Eastern Cape has ordered its debt-hobbled health department to stop hiring new doctors, in a move that may affect as many as 400 junior doctors.
The ANC in the Eastern Cape wants to meet the Mandela family to discuss Mandla Mandela’s personal life and work out how to rein in Madiba’s grandson.
The Eastern Cape’s education department has had to ask the province’s treasury for a R15-million bailout to settle salaries stilled owed to teachers.
After a drop in its 2011 matric pass rate, the KwaZulu-Natal education department says poverty is one of the largest stumbling blocks for its pupils.
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/ 6 December 2011
The Eastern Cape education department will save R90.9-million after 101 000 ghost pupils were uncovered in a school audit.
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/ 2 December 2011
Sadtu have threatened to protest if the Eastern Cape education department goes ahead with its plan to dismiss 4 200 temporary teachers.
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/ 22 November 2011
Eastern Cape matrics are safe from a teachers’ strike for now but tensions remain high as Sadtu takes the department of education to court.
As most of SA’s top black rugby players come from the Eastern Cape, the sports ministry has decided to set up a rugby academy in the province.
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/ 17 November 2011
The Eastern Cape health department is facing a R19-billion infrastructure backlog that is crippling service delivery in the province.
Mia Malan describes the arduous trek an Eastern Cape woman had to undertake to get medical attention for her sick grandson.
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/ 9 November 2011
The department of basic education is scrambling to avert a possible strike by 53 000 teachers — in the middle of the matric exams.
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema says he’s being persecuted by the ANC "for telling the truth" and doing his job by introducing radical ideas.
Two rugby clubs face expulsion from their league after funds to upgrade fields fail to materialise.
The R117m Kei Rail project, meant to create jobs, provide affordable transport and boost the E Cape economy, is running again, but not at full steam.
The Eastern Cape government has set aside R1.5-million to kick-start an expanded honeybush tea industry.
Eastern Cape and the United Nations have signed a deal that focuses on building green economy and earning carbon credits.
A British tourist has been rescued by a reserve constable after being knocked unconscious when his boat capsized on the Mthatha Dam.
Former PE mayor Nceba Faku has called on ANC supporters to burn down the city’s Herald newspaper, during the party’s election victory celebrations.
The ANC is fighting to claw back votes, but an opposition coalition may take the prized Port Elizabeth metro.
Problems with the ANC’s candidate lists have seemingly reached the point where one member is claiming to be receiving advice from beyond the grave.
While DA leader Helen Zille courted voters in Port Elizabeth, President Zuma was telling Jo’burgers that the DA’s hopes for Gauteng were "daydreams".
Smuts Ngonyama hits the campaign trail in a bid to return from the political wilderness.
Helen Zille took the DA’s electoral campaign to a poor Port Elizabeth area, promising better policing and community work if the party is voted in.
Police are investigating whether there are links between the mayor of an Eastern Cape municipality and an alleged political assassination plot.
The case against two men accused of conspiring to kill senior ANC Eastern Cape members was adjourned on Wednesday.
Aids activists are trying to stop the practice of compelling young girls to wed older men because of the risk of HIV, reports <b>Lesley Odendal</b>.