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.
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.