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.
The ANC is in no danger of losing its heartland — the Eastern Cape — on election Wednesday, but the party is now facing a wave of new competition.
Eating three meals a day is a treat the Khosephi family has not had in months, a continuous struggle they share with many destitute rural families.
Cope will win the Eastern Cape province in the April 22 election, party leader Mvume Dandala said in East London on Thursday.
These corruption charges against Jacob Zuma are sad, but a person is not guilty until he is proven otherwise.
Mandy Rossouw and Paul Botes went looking for Thabo Mbeki’s mother in Idutywa and came away feeling there’s only one Cope supporter in town.
Norah Dyantyi’s life never extended beyond her village, but news of her death reverberated throughout the Eastern Cape.
The breezy shade of a tall thorn tree in the middle of a field strewn with puddles of cow dung provides a cool sanctuary on SA’s hot summer days.
A handful of Eastern Cape men brave ridicule to take on ‘women’s work’. Kristin Palitza reports.
Ten municipal officials were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly stealing R28-million intended for rural development in Mount Ayliff.
There is no need to panic over the current meningitis outbreak in South Africa, the South African Medical Association said on Tuesday.
The ”myth” that the Eastern Cape is now a Cope stronghold was debunked by the by-election results, the ANC said on Thursday.
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/ 27 February 2009
A three-year-old girl was allegedly beaten to death by two brothers, aged five and seven, in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape police said on Friday.
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/ 9 February 2009
The ANC on Monday expressed concern that ”high levels of intolerance” will hamper South Africa’s ability to hold a free and fair election.
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/ 31 January 2009
A group of robbers got away with an unknown amount of money after bombing an ATM in Bizana on Saturday, Eastern Cape police said.