After 2022, the Ngcobo Community Health Centre in the rural Eastern Cape ceased operating 24 hours every day because spiralling crime and dry taps made it impossible for workers to operate at night
The government is yet to say how much it cost to commission the statues but no matter how much it spent, this would have made some difference in the lives of the people of Mthatha
‘The Imperatives of Revoking Our Silence’ highlights students’ experiences of sexual assault on university campuses
In the same period 9 516 rape cases were opened with the South African Police Service
This comes after recent protests by local residents demanding that the hospital’s new chief executive step down
There have been several protests over the past few weeks, calling for the resignation of the new chief executive at Zithulele Hospital.
Unimaginable levels of poverty in far-flung rural villages in South Africa are not being addressed by local councillors who are supposed to help improve the lives of residents in their wards
The new chairperson of the council reveals his plans to shake up his alma mater and some of the problems he found when he started getting involved in the university’s affairs
Four affected schools have remained closed because they don’t meet the Covid-19 regulations, due in part, to the defacement caused
Physical and psychological violence will continue unless we self-reflect on our apartheid scars
Connect the people affected by problems so that they can pool information and tackle the causes
Mthobeli Gangatha has learnt to accept that nothing, not even part of the R5-billion settlement announced by lawyers, will ever reverse his condition
One off-duty soldier and five police offieres were killed when a group of men attacked the Ngcobo police station
Médecins Sans Frontières says in five months there has been no improvement with Eastern Cape HIV and TB drug stock-outs.
Jabulani Foundation helps hospital by plugging financial holes, making doctors’ jobs easier.
Health workers at a rural hospital describe paying for equipment, taxi fares and meals as part of providing care.
A deep-rural hospital has become a beacon of hope, thanks to dedicated individuals.
A British tourist has been rescued by a reserve constable after being knocked unconscious when his boat capsized on the Mthatha Dam.
Police are investigating whether there are links between the mayor of an Eastern Cape municipality and an alleged political assassination plot.
In a bumpy backstreet in Mthatha stands the offices of the ex-mineworkers’ union, founded in 1987. There are seven stacks of dusty files in one corner, each the height of an adult, containing compensation applications and other paperwork for each of the union’s members in the Eastern Cape. “About 18 000 members,” says Zanele Mbuyisa, a […]
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/ 29 September 2010
Walter Sisulu University will establish a faculty of agriculture and rural development by 2012, said Professor Noluthando Luswazi this week.
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/ 13 October 2008
The Eastern Cape health department has warned residents of the Mqanduli area that river water has been contaminated with sewage.
Mthatha will host the Eastern Cape’s first regional science festival from August 26 to 28.
Kings and royalty from South Africa’s many different tribes will gather on Monday to witness the grandson of former South African president Nelson Mandela reclaim the family’s position as traditional leaders. Mandla Mandela (32) will be installed as head of the Mvezo Traditional Council by the King of the AbaThembu, Zwelibanzi Dalindyebo.
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President Thabo Mbeki took the African National Congress’s local government campaign into the Transkei heartland of the United Democratic Movement on Saturday. In a series of stops, he made his way from the Wild Coast through the heart of the Mqanduli area where UDM leader Bantu Holomisa was born.
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/ 28 November 2005
One boy has died and eight others were admitted to the Mthatha general hospital after they fell ill at a circumcision school in the area, the Eastern Cape Health Department said on Monday. ”When we got there on Sunday night one of the boys had already died. Two are in a critical condition and the others are stable,” said spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo.
The body of a nine-year-old boy who went missing a week ago has been found with parts missing, an Mthatha police spokesperson said on Thursday. Captain Sherine Reddy said Yamkela Mabhuda’s body was found in Mt Ayliff on Tuesday. The boy went missing from his home in Manzana in Mt Ayliff in the Eastern Cape on August 10.
Two missing Mthatha boys were found sodomised and murdered at a disused bus depot on Friday, Eastern Cape police said. The boys — aged six and 12 — disappeared late on Thursday afternoon. ”I have just come from the scene. It is terrible, terrible,” said police spokesperson Superintendent Nondumiso Jafta
The CEO of the Border Cricket Board in East London and a South African National Defence Force major were among 12 people arrested on Monday on fraud charges, Eastern Cape police said.
Emergency aid is on the way to a village in the Eastern Cape where an outbreak of a tapeworm-related sickness has seen more than 20 children hospitalised. Dozens more were awaiting immunisation on Tuesday from neurocystercercosis, a parasitic brain infection that results from tapeworms.
The Eastern Cape social development department is investigating 2Â 000 public servants thought to be cheating the state out of R24-million in welfare grants. Those under suspicion include teachers and employees of the Eastern Cape agriculture department. Eight civil servants were arrested at Mthatha on Monday morning for grant fraud.
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/ 11 February 2005
A large cache of weapons and ammunition was found by the police’s national intervention unit in Mqanduli, Transkei on Thursday. Police spokesperson Superintendent Sipho Sizani said the bust followed information about a 34-year-old ex-soldier, who was training people to use firearms.