The Eastern Cape government scoffed on Thursday at a report alleging widespread corruption in the province, claiming the findings by Public Service Accountability Monitor were ”malicious and irresponsible”.
The disadvantaged indigenous and rural communities have a duty and responsibility to dismantle or replace the government of the day with a responsive and listening government, the National House of Traditional Leaders said on Sunday.
Eastern Cape Health MEC Bevan Goqwana has pledged to have the parents of boys killed or maimed during circumcisions arrested along with negligent traditional surgeons and nurses.
Former Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) amnesty committee member Ntsikelelo Sandi said South Africans would do well to shy away from the idea of blanket amnesty as it would nullify the TRC’s reason and purpose.
Snow worshippers should refrain from heading outdoors to witness the blanket of snow over northern parts of the Eastern Cape.
Elliot and Cala in the Eastern Cape were still cut off from the national power grid and road contact with the outside world on Sunday afternoon.
Vigilantes convicted for mob killings, and a former Ciskei strongman and a bantustan headman are among the 33 Eastern Cape prisoners pardoned by President Thabo Mbeki.
Six Eastern Cape government officials were arrested in King William’s Town on Wednesday morning in connection with bribery allegations, the Scorpions reported.
Eastern Cape MEC, Enoch Godongwana, was fined R8 000, or 200 days in jail on Tuesday for driving under the influence of alcohol.
The Eastern Cape Tourism Board suffered a R3-million loss when seven of its white rhinoceros at the Tsolwana Game Reserve died recently.
MPs have re-opened the process of finding a suitable successor for Public Protector Selby Baqwa, after only seven nominations were received for the key post.
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.
Prison gangs are using HIV infection by rape as punishment in a grim ritual known as ”slow puncture”, the Jali Commission heard on Wednesday.
The cleanest town in South Africa as well as the dirtiest town will be announced by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism on Wednesday.
The leadership of the SA Chamber of Business (Sacob) was confident on Thursday that two days of behind-closed-doors discussions in East London this week would help to refocus the embattled organisation.
Following Friday’s announcement that South African Bali blast victims Craig Harty and Godfrey Fitz were officially presumed dead, no further details could be released on the status of South Africans who remained on the island.
The Gauteng health department is urging parents in local communities to get youths at initiation schools in the rugged hills around Heidelberg to come home.
Some of the children who were thought to have died of hunger recently in the Eastern Cape had in fact died of HIV/Aids, the provincial department of social development said on Thursday.
Three political parties on Monday called on the Justice Department to release the details of the 33 prisoners who were granted a presidential pardon over the weekend.
The killing of policemen has sharply declined in the first five months of this year compared to the same period last year, police said on Wednesday.
Retired military generals and top ANC figures recently reached agreement on a form of extended amnesty.
President Thabo Mbeki says that the 33 people he pardoned for crimes including murder and robbery were jailed because of their involvement in the South African freedom struggle.
Drama in the trial of three men accused of murdering East London businessman Martin Whitaker continued in the East London Regional Court on Friday when the State withdrew armed robbery and murder charges against the last man still facing the charges.
THERE was nothing unique or strange about the release of 28 men from Eastern Cape prisons after a pardon was granted by President Thabo Mbeki, the Justice Department said on Monday.
President Thabo Mbeki has met vice-chancellors of the historically disadvantaged universities and technikons, as part of government’s ongoing consultations with those affected by the planned restructuring.
One of the political prisoners who was granted a controversial special presidential pardon in May has appeared in court on murder and armed robbery charges.
Reports of widespread damage amounting to millions of rands have been received from parts of the Eastern Cape due to a gale-force wind blowing in the region on Tuesday.
Political control changed hands in 21 municipalities in four provinces following a 15-day floor-crossing window period for local councillors — 13 of them in the Western Cape, it emerged on Friday.
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.
Over the last 10 days around 1 000 people, aged between three weeks and 95 years, have climbed — or been carried up — mountains across South Africa as part of a countrywide celebration of the International Year of the Mountain.
Sixteen people, allegedly part of a kangaroo court in Msobomvu near Butterworth, were arrested on Friday, Eastern Cape police said.
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.