A song about Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane preventing looting was way off the mark in a province riddled with corruption and theft
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The country’s local governments are a drag on investment, a strain on the fiscus and pose a critical sovereign risk
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In papers filed on Tuesday, Mkhwebane said that she would abide by the court’s decision in the matter.
The Makana Citizens Front brings together diverse groups with a focus on accountability
A multi-stakeholder approach has been implement to improve teenagers’ access to sexual and reproductive health rights services
The ANC in the Eastern Cape wants Premier Oscar Mabuyane and MEC Babalo Madikizela to submit themselves to the provincial integrity committee after a scathing report by the public protector.
A dumping site near the school is hazardous to pupils, who are forced into hot, crowded classrooms often targeted by criminals. The municipality says it cannot help
Public protector finds that money that was meant to celebrate the struggle icon was used to benefit senior politicians
Veteran broadcaster Noxolo Grootboom talks to Denvor de Wee about her childhood in the rural Eastern Cape, the day her neighbour Chris Hani was murdered and the secret to her ageless beauty
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Opposition leaders hit out at ANC over social media fracas, saying residents of Enoch Mgijima municipality deserve better
The municipality has accrued billions of rand in wasteful spending, and more than 6 000 putrid bucket toilets
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Small businesses are on their knees
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After being chased away for asking for minimum wage, Gqeberha bakers who endured racism turned first to the CCMA, then to a political party, then to a union. None helped
Child maintenance advocacy group says parents have lost faith in the MojaPay system, which ‘is not fit for purpose’
Deputy secretary general Jesse Duarte ordered that they come to the party headquarters to ‘sit with the registration teams and go over their lists’
As national lockdown regulations ease, President Cyril Ramaphosa urges South Africans to vaccinate
It is still unclear how discontent with politics, and the effects of Covid-19, will affect voter turnout, according to research company Ipsos
Why a tiny dinosaur from the Eastern Cape is making waves for the T-rex family
The party had lodged the application after it failed to submit proportional representative council lists in municipalities across five provinces in time
Duncan Village community members resorted to court action to challenge the ‘arrogant’ government
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DA leader John Steenhuisen challenges ANC to share its list of mayoral candidates during the main opposition party’s own big metro candidate list-reveal
Some argue that nuclear power will get us to our clean energy goals faster, but other experts say it is unsafe, unaffordable and unnecessary
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The fired cop’s arbitration hearing was postponed to next month just as police put forward video material
The use of the phrase ‘lighting up the shadows’ was a deliberate application of mind on Jeremy Vearey’s part targeted at the SAPS, police counsel argues.
Eastern Cape police commissioner Lieutenant General Liziwe Ntshinga told the Safety and Security Sectoral Bargaining Council on Tuesday 17 August that discipline was the cornerstone of the South African Police Service (SAPS) and that former Western Cape detective head Major General Jeremy Vearey had undermined it with derogatory Facebook posts Ntshinga was appointed by national […]
Fed-up residents and businesses are turning to the courts to get their local councils to take action on power outages, sewage overflows, unrepaired roads and other failures to deliver services
After alleged attempts to loot Eastern Cape housing funds, 39 200 people in the province will continue to live in atrocious conditions
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Rebuilding is crucial, but democracies cannot allow themselves to be held to ransom by the destruction of anarchists in dictating where public funds should be spent
The violence comes in the wake of protests last Friday when Zuma’s supporters went on the streets in KZN
A partnership with chiefs, NGOs and businesses is helping Matatiele’s small-scale farmers adopt conservation practices and so turn a profit
A recorded rant from ward 26 councillor Nozinzle Zaba in the Mnquma municipality has provincial secretary scrambling for assurances
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The Hawks and the NPA want to boost forensic investigative capacity to get back more money lost to corruption