The South African courts and the Truth and Reconciliation process largely failed to unravel the whole truth around apartheid atrocities, and this left people angry and disquieted, Cape High Court Judge Dennis Davis said on Wednesday.
Tickets for National Arts Festival productions were ”selling like hot cakes” and sales were already 43% up on last year.
Thousand of people began streaming into Grahamstown on Thursday for what the pundits say will be a bumper national arts festival.
Eastern Cape officials have embarked on a clean-up campaign of a different kind; admitting homeless people to mental institutions.
The Grahamstown High Court ordered the immediate release on Monday of 25 children who have been languishing in jail for up to four years while waiting to serve lesser sentences in non-existent reform schools.
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/ 12 February 2003
United States Ambassador Cameron Hume on Tuesday criticised the South African government’s inability to spend available resources on HIV/Aids and questioned whether it would utilise the roughly R1,7-billion his government had earmarked to combat the disease in 2004.
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/ 4 February 2003
The University of Transkei has advertised about 44 academic and eight administrative posts it intends filling despite the recent announcement by Education Minister Kader Asmal that the university must merge with Border and Eastern Cape technikons.
THE Eastern Cape’s seven provincially aided SA National Tuberculosis Association (Santa) hospitals are in financial dire straits.
The establishment of a strong, urban-based university in East London has become a reality when Rhodes University agreed to a gradual handover of its East London campus to the University of Fort Hare.
A 13-year-old Grahamstown girl was kidnapped, raped and held captive for a week before escaping on Saturday, police said.
A solemn Sabrina van Schoor was convicted in the Grahamstown High Court on Monday of murdering her 48-year-old mother.
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.
A Durban firm of attorneys was left red-faced on Monday after mistakenly placing a racist sale in execution notice in a local Barkly East newspaper
The Grahamstown High Court has sentenced an 18-year-old youth to five life terms for his part in the gang rape and murder of Somerset East teenager Shirlene Goliath.
The National Tertiary Education Staff Union (NTESU) at the University of Transkei (Unitra) has vowed to fight for the survival of the university.
The University of Transkei has appointed a former interim administrator, Professor Nicholas Morgan, as its first vice chancellor and principal in almost four years.