Bongani Fuzile
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All too tempting to beat the bearer of bad news
Whether the Eastern Cape has earned the moniker of "most violent province" or not sparked some debate this week. → Read More
ADM should learn to live within its means
We believe Amathole district municipality was right in providing security to councillor Nanziwe Rulashe. → Read More
BREAKING NEWS | 22 killed in East London nightclub
Twenty-two people have been found dead at an East London nightclub. The horrific scene unfolded in the early hours of Sunday morning with frantic messages requesting police, metro and ambulance assistance at Enyobeni Tavern in Scenery Park. Reporters are on the scene but the images are not fit for publication. → Read More
Locust fears see launch of pesticide programme
More than 120 agricultural farms in two Eastern Cape municipal districts have been hit by a brown locust outbreak → Read More
Water relief for drought-stricken EC villagers
A R215m water abstraction project to pipe fresh water to thousand households is well under way in the Eastern Cape → Read More
‘Double-dipping’ Eastern Cape doctor jumps before he is pushed
A medical doctor, about to face the music at the health department for moonlighting, has jumped ship before being fired. Health MEC Sindiswa Gomba's spokesperson, Judy Ngoloyi, said the doctor, who had been with the department for two years, had submitted a sick note to explain his absence, but was later found performing duties at his private practice. → Read More
Neo Moerane petitions ConCourt in last-ditch bid to get her BCM job back
In her last attempt to get her job back in Buffalo City Metro, Neo Moerane has petitioned the Constitutional Court → Read More
Engcobo mayor tests positive for Covid-19
Siyabulela Zangqa, the mayor of Engcobo Local Municipality has tested positive for Covid-19. This news were shared among the councillors of Engcobo municipality today. All those councillors were who made contact with the mayor were urged to go and test. Engcobo council speaker Skosana Mbolo referred DispatchLIVE (. → Read More
Covid numbers on the rise in the Eastern Cape
The number of Covid-19 infections in the Eastern Cape continues to rise at an alarming rate. → Read More
50 police officers fear for lives as senior quarantined
More than 50 officers stationed at the Butterworth police cluster offices are demanding to be tested for the coronavirus after a colleague went into quarantine. The woman, who is a senior officer in the cluster, fetched her son in Bloemfontein in late March but on their return to Butterworth he fell ill. → Read More
Why reporting on gender based violence can never stop
Gender-based violence means that women and children are the victims of it. There is an onslaught in this country, and the Eastern Cape is not spared. We, as journalists, are at the forefront when we report on these crimes. The numbers are so high that we could forgive our readers if they said: “Just another case, what makes this news? Do we have to read about it?” And there are people who feel… → Read More
Five die in blazing house including baby
Police have arrested a man in Seymour and charged him with five counts of murder and one of arson after a home in the little Eastern Cape town was gutted. Police spokesperson Col Sibongile Soci said the house went up in flames in the early hours of Tuesday. "A 32-year-old suspect has been arrested and charged with murder and arson following the gruesome discovery of a house in Seymour engulfed… → Read More
Safety gear shortfall holds up hospital service, builds queues
A shortage of protective equipment for medical staff continued to cause delays at an East London day hospital on Tuesday. Several people told the Daily Dispatch that they arrived at Duncan Village hospital as early as 6am to beat the queues. But it was not until after 1pm that patients were allowed to go inside, and even then only in groups. → Read More
WATCH | Fort Hare students chased from residence ahead of lockdown
Fort Hare University has again come under fire over claims that the university unceremoniously evicted foreign students from residences at its Alice campus in the middle of the night ahead of the lockdown that started at midnight on Thursday. This after a video was shared showing guards shouting while chasing crying students out of a building. → Read More
Safety of patients at EC hospitals not guaranteed
Despite staff and patients having been threatened in the past, it is remarkably easy to gain access to the hospitals of the Eastern Cape without being stopped by security guards. Last year, an attacker armed with a knife “finished off” a patient at All Saints hospital in Ngcobo, stabbing the patient to death. → Read More
Health department admits: it's true, we have no beds and less money
It is true, says the Eastern Cape health department, state hospitals are horribly overcrowded and there are not enough beds. Some patients end up lying on benches. → Read More
Taxis demand huge fees from the elderly desperate for transport to health centres
Getting an ambulance to fetch patients in some rural areas is so improbable that people do not even know how to call for one, Dispatch investigators were told by pensioners. → Read More
AG slams BCM procurement and financial practices
Buffalo City Metro has been slammed as an institution that lacks control and regular monitoring and one that does not comply with supply chain management procedures. The damning findings are contained in the auditor-general’s (AG) audit reports for the year ending June 2019, which were released in December. → Read More
Ward representative has two toilets, his neighbour none
Whenever toilets are built for residents, politicians speak of how this restores people's dignity. However, in one Buffalo City Metro ward its councillor has two ventilated improved pit (VIP) toilets while his neighbours, an elderly couple about 300 metres away, have none. One of the toilets in ward 50 councillor Thobile Mtya's village home in Kwelera's Jongilanga village was built by the… → Read More
Mother’s agony as initiate son dies on Christmas Day
Simamkele Xungu was buried at Kulikhaba near Ngcobo on Thursday. For two weeks, Xungu, 19, was denied drinking water while at initiation school in Butterworth and, on Christmas Day, he breathed his last breath at Frere Hospital in East London. The death of the Nolitha Comprehensive School grade 11 pupil came despite pleas from the provincial health department and traditional leaders that a… → Read More