Mbulelo Sogoni replaced Nosimo Balindlela, who was forced to resign by the new ANC leadership for failing to improve service delivery in the province.
The Grahamstown High Court sentenced a man who raped a seven-year-old girl last year to life in prison on Friday.
Mthatha will host the Eastern Cape’s first regional science festival from August 26 to 28.
The first item on his diary will be to deal with the report of the Pillay commission, requested by Balindlela in 2005 to probe corruption.
Kaizer Chiefs took apart their arch-rivals Orlando Pirates 2-0 in the third match in the Vodacom Challenge series on Thursday night.
A farmer and professional hunter from Adelaide in the Eastern Cape died on Thursday after been diagnosed with Crimea-Congo haemorrhagic fever.
Three men have been arrested in possession of dagga at the Jose Pearson tuberculosis (TB) hospital in Port Elizabeth.
Four men accused of killing a man by dropping concrete blocks on his head have pleaded not guilty to murder in the Grahamstown Magistrate’s Court.
The DA is appealing the government’s ”refusal” to approve an application for the release of a report into Eastern Cape baby deaths.
The Eastern Cape health department has dismissed claims that an XDR-TB patient in a PE hospital died because there was not enough oxygen to treat her.
Nelson Mandela’s vision for a South Africa beyond apartheid is what gave birth to the transition to democracy, President Thabo Mbeki said on Saturday.
Six boys were burnt beyond recognition at an initiation schoolhouse in Mtasane, East London, the Eastern Cape health department said on Saturday.
Guests cheered, a choir sang and a smiling Nelson Mandela welcomed hundreds of well-wishers on Saturday as SA formally celebrated his 90th birthday.
Aware of the risk of traditional circumcision, the family of Yongama Boya had him circumcised in hospital before sending him to his initiation ritual.
Nelson Mandela celebrated his 90th birthday on Friday by urging the wealthy to share their prosperity with the less fortunate.
The ANC’s national working committee is believed to have recommended the removal of Balindlela for her lack of leadership in the province.
Bay United and FC AK will trot out at the Wolfson Stadium in Port Elizabeth on Sunday knowing that the stakes are high.
Minister of Sport and Recreation Makhenkesi Stofile, named in a report on corruption, said on Thursday he rejected its findings ”with contempt”.
DA leader Helen Zille is calling for the head of Minister of Sport and Recreation Makhenkesi Stofile following the leaking of the Pillay report.
Five people accused of beating a man to death with a pickaxe handle nearly two years ago appeared in the Grahamstown Regional Court on Monday.
Circumcision deaths in the Eastern Cape continue to climb with reports on Thursday of four more fatalities in the Transkei region.
Far-reaching changes to the constitution of the PAC are to be put to the vote at the party’s national congress, which gets under way on Friday.
Robyn Sassen reviews <i>Bar Flies</i>, now on stage at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
In a society reeling from violence, how appropriate or helpful is it to see violence depicted on stage?
Several productions at this year’s National Arts Festival explore the dramatic potential of the time-space between crime and punishment.
As a jazz musician, the minute you stop learning you’re dead, says Mark Fransman, this year’s Standard Bank Young Artist Award winner.
The <i>Defined by Four Letters</i> exhibition at the National Arts Festival is an expression of the lives and identities of people living with HIV.
A Carlo Mombelli gig can make you wonder if you’ve come to the right place, writes Thorsten Schier from the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
Boxer Samorha Msophi has died in hospital after he collapsed during a junior flyweight title clash in East London on the weekend.
A disabled man accused of killing his wife after she taunted him about ”having the best sex of her life with her lover” has been convicted of murder.
Native bush could be a weapon against climate change, making South Africa a player in the international carbon credits market.
A 42-year-old Namibian accused of raping a 10-year-old girl was genetically linked to her rape by a DNA analysis, the Grahamstown High Court heard.