Twelve out of 19 tuberculosis (TB) patients who escaped from the Jose Pearson Hospital in Port Elizabeth have been found.
Ten out of 19 patients who escaped from a TB hospital in Port Elizabeth have been found — but nine others are still missing.
Fay Cranmer, Kate Farina, Sindi Ngaba, Christine Ramon, Nompulelo Siswana.
Nineteen tuberculosis patients have escaped from the Jose Pearson TB hospital in Port Elizabeth, the Eastern Cape Health Department said on Sunday.
With his popularity waning, ANC president Jacob Zuma faces a series of hurdles.
The woman with the microphone and brightly coloured knit tam-o’-shanter is speaking in Nelson Mandela’s name as she presses villagers to be honest about HIV/Aids.
Changes from the top and fresh energy are invigorating the National Arts Festival. Brent Meersman speaks to Tony Lankester, the new chief executive.
The government has identified at least 27 cases where a syndicate has swindled more than R199-million from government departments in four provinces over the past three years — using cyber-spyware.
For the Sake of Silence (in which the narrator frequently meditates on the undesirability of words) extends to 550 pages.
The ANC Youth League faces yet another crisis after five of its provincial structures rejected Luthuli House’s endorsement of its controversially elected top five officials.
"Our school was in a bad condition before, with pipes leaking, toilets dirty and in a poor condition."
Makana Meadery in Grahamstown combines local knowledge and scientific know-how to save energy and reduce its carbon footprint.
An Eastern Cape man was the target of ”devastating” sexual taunts from his wife before he allegedly killed her, the Grahamstown High Court heard on Thursday.
The Eastern Cape department of health on Thursday launched a massive campaign to educate and employ more than 1 000 health professionals.
About 142 court cases linked to xenophobic violence have been opened countrywide, the National Prosecuting Authority said on Tuesday. Spokesperson Tlali Tlali said 102 of these were in Gauteng. Provincial police liaison officers approached said none of the 142 cases had reached the conviction stage yet.
Kevin Davie recalls the warm hospitality of the people of Lesotho and the variable weather conditions in which they live. The village of Ha Sepechela is pretty remote, comprising about 30 chimneyless huts. Here residents leave the top half of their stable-type doors open to allow smoke to escape.
Poor hygiene may have caused the diarrhoea outbreaks that killed nine babies in the Ndlambe municipal area in the Eastern Cape over the past three months, government departments said on Friday. The Water Affairs Department said although there had been poor water quality, this was neither ”excessive” nor ”severe enough” to cause diarrhoea outbreaks.
A life without foreigners? I woke and switched on the radio for the early morning news. I heard our foreign neighbours have gone back to their African countries. Good news, I said, now there will be peace. I went to the bathroom for a shower to find there was no hot water. I needed a […]
An investment of R42-million was placed into a project for a medical aid for ex-miners on Thursday. The agreement aims to improve public health facilities that will be largely utilised by ex-miners in South Africa and neighbouring countries, for the benefit of medical examinations.
The death toll for the Eastern Cape bus crash stood at 22, including five children, police announced on Wednesday. The bus — which belongs to a private bus company — careened down a 200m embankment into a river near the town of Cedarville on Tuesday. During the course of the day, there were conflicting reports of how many people had been killed, ranging from 20 to 30.
At least 24 people were killed and scores more injured in the Eastern Cape when a bus careened down a 200m embankment into a river near the town of Cedarville. Police spokesperson Superintendent Zandra Wiid said it was not known how many people were in the bus. Unconfirmed reports said there were as many as 80.
One month after her appointment, the new director general of water affairs and forestry, Pam Yako has come out fighting — promising she will target water-guzzling operators, including in the mining and forestry industries, in an attempt to prevent water becoming as critically threatened a resource as energy.
Thousands of people marched through Johannesburg on Saturday, calling for an end to the violence that has killed at least 50 African migrants and forced tens of thousands to flee their homes. People in Hillbrow, home to many African immigrants, cheered the march, which was organised by churches and labour unions.
The blackened fragments spread out on the table look at first glance like no more than a scattering of charcoal, left over from a long-dead fire. But on closer examination one sees that the fragments are grouped, and that each group has its own printed label. In one corner, in a plastic lunchbox-type container, are the smallest fragments of all.
Argentina’s Damian Marchiano is reputed to be one of the toughest bantamweights around. And come May 31 at Emperors Palace, fans will learn just how tough when he challenges Silence Mabuza for the latter’s IBO bantamweight title. Not that the diminutive Mabuza is too worried about his latest challenger, having had his eyes firmly set on a unification bout later this year.
Experts say the often chaotic land reform programme has compromised food production: white farmers facing land claims are reluctant to plant crops, while emerging black farmers have insufficient training and support to produce the quantities of food needed by the domestic market.
African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma has received support from alliance partners to run for presidential elections, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Sunday. ”We will not only be accompanying him to court but to the Union Buildings as the next president of South Africa,” he said, announcing the outcome of an alliance.
A 36-year old man, accused of murdering eleven KwaZulu-Natal women and dumping their bodies in sugarcane fields, will be tried in the Ramsgate High Court. Thozamile Taki and his alleged accomplice Hlengiwe Nene appeared briefly in the Umzinto Magistrate’s Court on Friday, where Magistrate Giel van Aarde ordered that they be held in custody until the trial starts on November 17.
The Department of Health and the Department of Water Affairs are still collecting door-to-door information on the outbreak of diarrhoea in the Eastern Cape which cost 78 children’s lives, the provincial government said on Thursday. Spokesperson Papama Mfenyana said the province was still waiting for information from the team on the ground.
Salaries should increase on average by about 11,8% in 2008, an employment report released on Thursday shows. ”Higher inflation makes for high salary increases,” said economist Mike Schussler, who compiled the report for the United Association of South Africa trade union.
Bones collected from an Eastern Cape farm suspected to be that of the Pebco Three will be examined, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Thursday. The NPA said it found around 12kg of bone material, identified out of 250kg of burnt material.
Water contamination was a factor in the death of nearly 80 babies in the Eastern Cape, the provincial government said on Wednesday. An interim report acknowledged that a ”multiplicity of causes”, including ”systematic failures affecting water quality”, were to blame for the deaths of the babies, said the provincial government in a statement.