Asanda Nini
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BCM reveals plans to keep beaches safe for visitors
Buffalo City Metro has vowed to come down hard on public and underage drinking on beaches during the festive season. → Read More
Bhisho probing 49 officials for corruption and irregular conduct
Almost 50 Eastern Cape government officials are being investigated for transgressions, ranging from procurement irregularities, Covid-19 PPE fraud, collusion with service providers, abuse of state vehicles, embezzlement of funds, forgery, corruption as well as fraudulent travel claims and loss of state laptops. → Read More
Three new MEC’S join Mabuyane’s cabinet
Three brand new MECs had joined Premier Oscar Mabuyane's new cabinet after they were sworn in in Bhisho on Tuesday. → Read More
Second phase of small towns revitalisation programme set to begin
While the Bhisho government has extended its small towns revitalisation programme to the end of March 2025, adding a number of towns to the list set to benefit from a possible facelift, the province is in need of more than R5bn to deal with roads, water and sanitation challenges faced by the selected small towns. → Read More
Top political leadership of Amathole municipality axed
In less than a week the troubled Amathole district municipality (ADM) will have a new political leadership. → Read More
ANC move to make all public servants retire at 65
In future, public servants will be forced to retire at 65. → Read More
Youth exodus out of corrupt, poor province
Thousands of Eastern Cape young people are deserting the province for greener pastures elsewhere. → Read More
Amathole municipal manager warns he will fight plan to remove him
Amathole district municipality municipal manager Thandekile Mnyimba's future is in the balance. → Read More
ANC BCM conference postponed amid legal wrangle
Disgruntled ANC members in the Buffalo City Metro-based Dr WB Rubusana region, who this week took the party to court, will have to wait until Thursday to discover if the region's elective conference, planned for this weekend, will take place. → Read More
ADM director lays complaint against councillor dragged from office
Senior ADM executive director Akhona Tinta, who apparently got into a heated verbal exchange in a meeting with mayoral committee member Nanziwe Rulashe moments before the latter was allegedly assaulted and dragged from her office last week, has laid a formal complaint against the under-siege ANC councillor. → Read More
Media executive Nathi Maramnco loses battle with Covid-19
Former Daily Dispatch publisher and TV production guru Nkosinathi “Nathi” Maramnco has died. → Read More
Broken, wretched KSD says way out is to be upgraded to a metro
The pothole-riddled and destitute King Sabata Dalindyebo (KSD) municipality, with its main town Mthatha notoriously declared the filthiest in SA, is forging ahead with plans to to be declared a metro. KSD wants to have the same status as two other ailing Eastern Cape metros, Buffalo City and Nelson Mandela Bay. → Read More
Eastern Cape health department paralysed by R4bn in legal claims
The Eastern Cape health department is on the verge of collapse and has been paralysed by R4bn worth of medico-legal claims in the past financial year, the Bhisho legislature was told. This revelation was made by ANC MPL Mzoleli Mrara while tabling the legislature’s portfolio committee report on the office of the premier during a virtual house sitting on Thursday. → Read More
It’s back to school for Eastern Cape ANC officials
The national ANC wants its Eastern Cape provincial executive committee members to go back to political school and those serving on the provincial disciplinary committee (PDC) thoroughly trained on how to handle disciplinary matters involving party members. This after yet another disciplinary committee process by the province was found to be flawed, with procedures not properly followed. → Read More
Attempted murder charges against DA MP Mlindi Nhanha withdrawn
Attempted murder charges against DA MP Mlindi Nhanha were withdrawn at the Alice magistrates court on Thursday. → Read More
Lack of finances stymies hopes of early retirement without penalties
Public servants 55 and older want to go — but say they are being blocked by the provincial health department. In February, President Cyril Ramaphosa and public service and administration minister Senzo Mchunu issued a directive urging state employees who are 55 or older to take early retirement. → Read More
SIU to probe R51m alleged corruption and maladministration at ELIDZ
President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed a proclamation authorising the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to investigate alleged corruption and maladministration claims at the East London Industrial Development Zone (ELIDZ). The proclamation signed on Friday will give the green light and pave way for the SIU to probe the alleged misuse of more than R51m by the institution, while the alleged purchase… → Read More
BCM on verge of collapse, ANC councillors admit
Buffalo City Metro is on the brink of collapse, says its ANC-led council. An anxious and distressed council on Friday heard Eastern Cape auditor-general Shereen Noble inform them of a litany of near-fatal errors and failures which included: Big failures to hit revenue targets. The city lost R295m in electricity revenue, and R126m in water revenue;Charges for services to properties were not… → Read More
Premier names new EC health, human settlements and rural development MECs
It's official, and as reported by DispatchLIVE () last week, former rural development and agrarian reform MEC Nomakhosazana Meth was on Tuesday unveiled as the new provincial health MEC. New to the provincial cabinet will be ANC MPL Nonceba Kontsiwe, who will take over as the new human settlements MEC. → Read More
Mabuyane given until Friday to act against Gomba
The noose would seem to be tightening around health MEC Sindiswa Gomba’s neck → Read More