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Remembering mama Sisulu, a role model to all
The late mama Albertina Sisulu worked to help the poor regardless of their colour or politics. This was said by WSU Chancellor Dr Brigalia Bam at Sisulu’s birth village of Xolobe in Tsomo on Friday. Bam was delivering a memorial lecture during the provincial government centenary celebrations. Bam said Sisulu’s life was characterised with respect, knowledge and a love for people. → Read More
2 children die in lightning strike
An act of nature has left two Komani families devastated after a lightning strike killed two children and left another fighting for his life in hospital. → Read More
Four children struck by lightning, two die
Two girls, aged 12 and 15, died instantly on Sunday afternoon in Komani after they were struck by lightning. → Read More
Komani: 7 powerless days
Business life in Komani is grinding to a halt as a power outage enters its eighth day. → Read More
Chris Hani breeder hits jackpot with first bull
The first black Brangus breeder in the Chris Hani district, Nkosemntu Nika, sold a bull for R50,000 at the Tarkastad livestock auction on Friday. Bulls were selling for as little as R36,000 to the most expensive Brangus on the day at R200,000. Nika started farming in 2012 after taking early retirement at 55 as a finance director at Petro SA. → Read More
Fraud case against top cop's wife postponed
The fraud case against Neliswa Zamkana was postponed by the Komani magistrate's court on Wednesday. Zamkana is the wife of Cradock cluster commander Brigadier Madoda Zamkana. She is accused of applying for a disability grant at Sassa while she is able-bodied and has a fulltime job. She appeared before magistrate Ganasen Narayansamy. → Read More
Constant outages in Komani dubbed a crisis
One of the businesses in Komani lost R750,000 on diesel during the most recent three-day electricity outage in the central business district, which lasted from Monday to Wednesday this week. The multiple electricity outages have been a big headache for both businesses and residents in the area. Cathcart Road’s Engen garage owner John de Beer said while he could switch to generators when the… → Read More
EFF plans protest at EL airport
About 100 EFF members have arrived at the East London Airport where they intend to occupy Mugg and Bean. → Read More
PAC youth: name hospital for Zondeni
The youth wing and student wing of the PAC want the University of Fort Hare (UFH) and Victoria Hospital in Fort Beaufort named after Robert Sobukwe and his wife Zondeni. The call was made at a memorial service for Zondeni at the UFH East London campus on Wednesday. She died on August 15. Victoria Hospital is where she trained as a nurse and met her husband. → Read More
PAC host memorial service for Sobukwe
The provincial executive committee of the PAC hosted a memorial service for the late Zondeni Sobukwe at Fort Hare University in East London on Wednesday. An activist in her own right, she is the wife of the late PAC founding president Robert Sobukwe. Zondeni was born on July 27 1927 in Hlobane in KwaZulu-Natal. → Read More
Fresh calls to release king Dalindyebo from jail
Calls for the release of AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo have resurfaced with the AmaBhele nation youth writing to President Cyril Ramaphosa requesting a presidential pardon. The renewed calls come after Ramaphosa met with the king’s son and acting King Azenathi. Dalindyebo was sentenced to 12 years in prison for kidnapping, assault, arson and defeating the ends of justice. → Read More
Youth call for release of Dalindyebo on presidential pardon
Young people of AmaBhele nation have written to the Presidency requesting that King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo be released on presidential pardon. Spokesperson for the young people Bhelekazi Mabandla wrote the letter on July 30. She said Dalindyebo had been through storms of persecution and that they still believed in him and in the cause of his release from incarceration. → Read More
Cyril urged to pursue schools’ lost R1.1bn
President Cyril Ramaphosa should sign a proclamation for the Special Investigating Unit to investigate what happened to R1.1bn meant to build prefab classrooms and schools in the Eastern Cape. → Read More
Strike puts water supply at risk
The Amatola Water Board is in a precarious position with strikers affecting the supply of water to some municipalities. Samwu claims the strike is legally protected by a certificate issued by the CCMA but the board maintains the strike is illegal. A CCMA certificate of nonresolution, according to Samwu regional secretary in Amathole, Luthando Juju, is issued when parties cannot agree and workers… → Read More
Amatola water strike talks still deadlocked
There is no end in sight for the Amatola Water strike over salary increment as both the union and the management of the water authority seem to pull to different directions. → Read More
Department in R9bn shortfall
A dwindling budget, together with a raised set of standards, has created a shortfall of R9bn for the provincial department of human settlements. → Read More
5,000 EC massacre victims in line for TRC reparations
Eastern Cape Premier Phumulo Masualle has opened the door for some 5,000 Eastern Cape survivors of massacres and victims’ families to come forward and claim reparations. → Read More
Energy expo kicks off in Mdantsane
Department of energy and Necsa kick-started the Eastern Cape leg of the science career expo at Mdantsane Indoor Sports Centre. Energy deputy minister Thembisile Majola was expected to grace the event but did not arrive with reports that the deputy minister was sick. Necsa group executive Monde Mondi said the aim of the expo was to showcase career opportunities in science, technology, engineering… → Read More
Mercedes-Benz test drivers hold picket
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) employees in West Bank have threatened a total production shutdown if their wage and allowance demands continue to fall on deaf ears. → Read More
DA wins by-election round with ANC, taking WSM ward
The battle by the DA to wrest control from the ANC continued this week in the Eastern Cape when the two parties each took one ward during the by-elections on Wednesday. This round, however, goes to the DA as it took ward 3 in Walter Sisulu Municipality from the ANC. The municipality covers the towns of Aliwal North, Burgersdorp and Jamestown. → Read More