Three people froze to death in the Eastern Cape’s snowy weather at the weekend, bringing the total number of people dying as a result of the country-wide cold weather to 21.
Eastern Cape premier Makhenkesi Stofile should be fired, and national government must directly intervene in the running of the province, United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa said on Thursday.
The King of the AmaRharhabe Kingdom, Maxhoba Sandile, has invited all chiefs to his Great Place in Mngqesha, Eastern Cape, on June 12 to discuss the controversial play Thuthula — Heart of the Labyrinth.
Former president Nelson Mandela confirmed reports on Tuesday that he would try to persuade United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa to join President Thabo Mbeki’s government.
Free State police recovered a three-week-old baby boy on Sunday and arrested two women who allegedly kidnapped the child from her mother after posing as hospital officials.
The government will pump R3,1-billion into the restructuring of higher education and R1,3-billion of this will be used to bail out universities and technikons in financial trouble.
Eastern Cape director of public prosecutions Zandile Ntsaluba said on Wednesday he was confident the State had new evidence likely to lead to a conviction in the double murder and robbery case against Dumisani Ncamazana and his brother Simnikiwe.
Once a week, a cargo ship packed with hundreds of luxury German cars, destined for the export market, leaves the East London harbour in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, the heartland of the auto industry.
A programme to provide a basic amount of free water to every household in South Africa has now reached an estimated 27-million people.
Sunday’s awarding of a R102-million land claim settlement to 1 704 people who were dispossessed by apartment’s betterment scheme signalled an irreversible shift in land reform policy.
HIV/Aids is destroying the country’s most valuable resource — the people of South Africa, former president Nelson Mandela warned at Mngqesha Great Place near King William’s Town in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday.
Former Eastern Cape Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) commissioner Reverend Bongani Finca has come out in support of the presidential pardon granted to 33 prisoners whose were refused amnesty by the TRC.
Former president Nelson Mandela has invited a group of the world’s wealthiest people to travel to South Africa in April next year as part to raise funds for disadvantaged students in the Eastern Cape.
Over 90 farms and other residences are being raided in all provinces as part of a countrywide intelligence-driven operation which started in the early hours on Friday, police reported.
The four murderers of Payne’s Farm school deputy principal Zingisile Nongoma were on Tuesday sentenced to lengthy jail terms in the Umtata High Court.
Former North West sports director Thabiso Mokoena was found guilty in the Mafikeng Regional Court on Tuesday on 85 counts of fraud totalling R1,3-million.
Several Eastern Cape mayors have been earning full-time mayors’ salaries ”illegally”, senior local government and housing officials said on Friday.
On Monday Mandela will return to his final place of captivity to mark the conversion into a museum of a jail.
About 75% of children younger than 17 lived below the poverty line of R400 per month in 1999, the Institute for Democracy in South Africa said on Tuesday.
The remains of the black South African soldiers who perished 85 years ago with the sunken SS Mendi war ship in France during the First World War will soon be brought home.
A human skull found at East London’s Nahoon beach in October could be that of an indigenous woman murdered by a foreign visitor more than two hundred years ago, East London’s district surgeon speculated on Thursday.
A bomb exploded at the Umtamvuna bridge near the Wild Coast Sun casino and hotel complex on the border between the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday
Eastern Cape premier and provincial chairman of the African National Congress, Makhenkesi Stofile, has squashed rumours that he plans to retire.
The University of Transkei has appointed a former interim administrator, Professor Nicholas Morgan, as its first vice chancellor and principal in almost four years.
The SA Municipal Workers’ nation-wide strike got into full swing on Tuesday despite threats of disciplinary action by some municipalities in the Free State, Samwu claimed.
Political parties and traditional leadership have mixed feelings over five proposals to change the province’s name.
The acting mayor of Mnquma in the Eastern Cape and 17 co-accused has appeared in the Butterworth Magistrate’s Court on charges of allegedly running a kangaroo court.
A loaded AK47 rifle was recovered by police in the Alice Spar supermarket owned by Michael Stofile, brother of Eastern Cape premier Makhenkesi Stofile, East London police said on Monday.
A Cape Town police officer who confessed to the murder of five petrol attendants has been transferred to a psychiatric hospital
Heavy snow such as the recent falls in the North-Eastern Cape makes life unpleasant for sheep, but being trapped in the open doesn’t necessarily mean frozen mutton.
Spoornet’s CEO Zandile Jakavula and the company’s executive manager for asset protection, Chain Vilakazi, have been demoted, following a disciplinary hearing into allegations that the two acted in03 May 2002appropriately.
Pardoned former Apla cadre Dumisani Ncamazana walked from court a free man in East London on Monday after charges of illegal possession of firearms were dropped.