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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Pressure is mounting on President Thabo Mbeki to explain the criteria he used to pardon 33 prisoners in the Eastern Cape at the weekend.
Limpopo was the province with the highest economic growth rate last year. It also has the highest economic growth rate on average over the past six years, Statistics SA said on Thursday.
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.
Umtata came to a standstill on Thursday afternoon when the Zulu royal house motorcade paraded through the streets ahead of a celebrity wedding that will see the royal Zulu and Nelson Mandela’s Thembu houses united.
Convicted murderers and robbers Simnikiwe and Dumisani Ncamazana will spend at least the next 25 years behinds bars after they were given life sentences in the East London High Court on Thursday.
Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine
Fraser-Moleketi has named a team of high ranking civil servants to assist the Eastern Cape government in stamping out corruption.
South Africa has a high demand for pregnancy termination services despite a high awareness of family planning, a research paper indicated on Wednesday.
Two arms caches that may be connected with the alleged rightwing plot to topple the government were discovered on Tuesday and Wednesday, police said.
The 130 people trapped in vehicles by heavy snowfalls in the northern parts of the Eastern Cape province were all rescued on Friday night, a disaster management co-ordinator said.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela paid an emotional tribute to his friend and fellow anti-apartheid veteran Walter Sisulu, who celebrated his 90th birthday on Saturday, calling him a giant of the liberation struggle.
It would be easy to dismiss the late John Berry’s cinematic adaptation of Athol Fugard’s play <b>Boesman and Lena</b>; those American accents and their perfect white teeth; the fact that Danny Glover in no way resembles anything approaching a San-Bushman or a "Hotnot"; the geographical problem of talking Eastern Cape when we’re clearly in the Western Cape; but that would be missing quite a few points.