Magic has been happening in the little country town of Bedford in the Eastern Cape, writes <b>Humphrey Tyler</b>.
For the first time since 1994, national government has invoked legislation and taken over the running of a provincial education department.
Staff ‘fleece’ Metrorail in online scam; meanwhile, in the Eastern Cape, government cannot get its trains back on track.
Eighteen ex-goldminers are taking on Anglo over a lung disease caused by exposure to silica dust. It’s a case that could cost the industry billions.
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/ 28 November 2010
The ANC in the Eastern Cape on Saturday said it supported Premier Noxolo Kiviet’s provincial cabinet reshuffle.
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/ 11 November 2010
The Eastern Cape provincial government will spend R30-million this financial year on 30 senior managers it contracted to sort out finances.
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/ 28 October 2010
The Democratic Alliance has proposed that Parliament debate what exactly constitutes the minimum standards of the right to education.
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/ 22 October 2010
Rural development conference hears how the area can become South Africa’s bread basket.
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/ 20 October 2010
Divisions and defiant deployees have cost the Eastern Cape ANC millions in legal fees, a senior Provincial Executive Committee member said.
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/ 13 October 2010
The DA will inspect one of the seven “mud schools” in the Eastern Cape that have launched legal action against the state during a visit on Friday.
Education authorities will oppose a court challenge by impoverished schools in the Eastern Cape to improve their infrastructure.
Community members attending the Annual Rural Development Conference at WSU say they always feel neglected by government — except at election time.
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/ 29 September 2010
Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape are home to most of the country’s dysfunctional schools, which recorded the worst pass rates in the 2009 N
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/ 23 September 2010
A pioneering initiative to enable learners from poor backgrounds to attend South Africa’s top schools celebrates its 10th anniversary this month.
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/ 21 September 2010
"Mud schools" in the Eastern Cape might have to wait until 2011 before their legal application to improve their infrastructure is heard in court
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/ 17 September 2010
Walter Sisulu University (WSU) vice-chancellor Marcus Balintulo on Friday urged staff and students to return to the Mthatha campus on Monday.
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/ 1 September 2010
VW South Africa shut down its Uitenhage plant on Wednesday because of a strike by the Numsa in the components industry.
A High Court ruling on Friday in Grahamstown has prevented an ANCYL elective conference from going ahead in the divided province.
Although Grahamstown may be soccer-weary for now, next week it will become the media capital of Africa.
The death toll in the Eastern Cape’s winter circumcision season has risen to 39, the provincial health department said on Monday.
Yet another would-be initiate has died at an illegal circumcision school in the Eastern Cape, the province’s health department said on Thursday.
The provincial conference of the ANC youth league in the Eastern Cape is falling apart — just like the first attempt which was aborted two weeks ago.
A surfer survived a shark attack in the sea off Port Alfred on Tuesday, police said.
Leaving the ‘protected’ concrete jungle of Johannesburg, Ricky Hunt feels slightly vulnerable in the beachcomber’s paradise on the Wild Coast.
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/ 22 December 2009
Zola Balfour sits at home in Port Elizabeth, reminiscing about assembling up to 120 cars a day at a busy General Motors of South Africa plant.
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/ 17 December 2009
The death toll in the Eastern Cape’s summer circumcision season now stands at 21, the provincial health department said on Thursday.
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/ 28 September 2009
The Eastern Cape health department has set up a task team to probe the large-scale theft of milk formula, spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said on Monday.
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/ 11 September 2009
The streets of East London’s city centre were fraught with tension on Thursday ahead of the first provincial conference of the ANC.
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/ 8 September 2009
One woman died and two others were injured when veld fires swept through parts of the Eastern Cape, police said on Tuesday.
The ANC’s biggest province, the Eastern Cape, will be the first to elect new provincial leaders since the 2007 Polokwane conference.
Rumours of new swine flu infections are spreading unnecessary panic, the Eastern Cape health department said on Wednesday.
Four more boys have died because of botched circumcisions in the Eastern Cape, bringing the death toll to 49, health officials said on Friday.