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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.
Dance is suggestive of physical energy, of a body in continuous and rhythmic movement. Poetry operates in much the same way.
The play <i>Hayani</i> is an evocative recollection of childhood by actor and director John Kani’s son, Atandwa, and Nat Ramabulana.
Monday night at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown saw the uniting of Ronald Snijders and United States-born Salim Washington.
The global economic crisis has resulted in a paradigm shift in which the "rich and powerful have been humbled", Eskom chairperson Bobby Godsell says.
As the Eastern Cape’s education system falls apart learners are taking extreme measures to secure a decent education, writes Primarashni Gower.
The death toll in the Eastern Cape’s winter circumcision season has risen to 31, the provincial health department said on Friday.
Before the 2004 elections the Mail & Guardian visited the Mayixhale family in a village outside Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape.
The murder of a leading activist of the Congress of the People (Cope), put a blight on the peaceful conduct of Wednesday’s general election.
Although voting progressed smoothly throughout Wednesday in the Eastern Cape, political parties reported a few incidents of irregularities.