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Fort Hare hosts first golf day fundraising event
The University of Fort Hare hosted its first golf day fundraising event at the East London golf course on Friday. → Read More
Concern over Eastern Cape spike in Covid cases
There is a surge of Covid-19 cases in the Eastern Cape, according to the latest national health statistics. This has raised concern in the province. National Institute for Communicable Diseases communications manager Sinenhlanhla Jimoh announced on Tuesday that the majority of new cases were from KwaZulu-Natal with 31%, followed by the Eastern Cape and Western Cape at 20% each. → Read More
Hundreds of food vendors in BCM duck health regulations
There are 949 food vending businesses of all sizes in Buffalo City which flout food safety regulations. The city has announced that among the culprits are 140 supermarkets, 68 restaurants, 74 cafes, takeaway kitchens and fruit and veg shops, 69 caterers, 29 butcheries, 30 canteens, 16 accommodation establishments, three bakeries and one food factory. → Read More
Angry BCM contract workers kick up a stink in CBD
Disgruntled Buffalo City metro contract workers threw bags of human waste, and burnt tyres outside the metro’s buildings in the CBD on Thursday. The expanded public works programme (EPWP) workers, mostly from the department of sanitation services, staged a sit-in protest on Tuesday. On Thursday morning the situation escalated to an active protest, with workers hurling bags of excrement about in… → Read More
Family shattered by ‘light’ sentence for Busisiwe Ngwadla's killer
The 20-year jail sentence for Ayanda “Mpiriri” Matika, who murdered Busisiwe Ngwadla, has caused an uproar. → Read More
Staff absence costs BCM R20m in just five months
Buffalo City Metro was bled of nearly R20m in five months from sick leave days taken by its employees. With the Covid-19 pandemic having changed work spaces across the world, BCM has experienced an unusually high cost in sick leave taken by its staff, including those who work remotely and on site. → Read More
Hudson Park High pupil's nose broken in classroom beating
A grade 9 Hudson Park High School pupil refuses to go back to school after he was beaten and left with a broken nose in an alleged bullying incident in a classroom on Monday last week. Speaking to DispatchLIVE () this week, the boy’s mother, who is a doctor, said her son had also suffered cyber bullying after the beating. → Read More
Online presence will boost Wild Coast homestays
The Wild Coast Holiday Association has announced a partnership to assist 34 small local businesses in the area. → Read More
Retired East London top cop shot dead, family tied up during home invasion robbery
An evening at home took a tragic turn for an East London family who watched as former Umkhonto we Sizwe and retired Eastern Cape policeman Brig Joseph Jongile was gunned down on Friday — right inside his Baysville residence. → Read More
Mooiplaas youth accused of murdering mother drops bail plea
A youth accused of killing his mother has abandoned his application for bail → Read More
BCM to regulate cellphone masts
Buffalo City Metro wants to regulate cellphone towers. → Read More
Water woes continue to plague Komani residents
Komani residents continue to struggle with inaccurate water readings and delays in getting billed → Read More
Chippa boss signs 20-year lease agreement with BCM
Its official: Chippa United boss Chippa Mpengesi has signed a 20-year lease agreement with Buffalo City Metro for the Buffalo City and Jan Smuts stadiums → Read More
Covid stalks the Sunshine Coast
Popular holiday towns in the Sarah Baartman district are buckling under the strain of Covid-19 as death numbers spike, health workers fall ill and usually lucrative festive season businesses look at shutting their doors. Port Alfred, Kenton-on-Sea and Bushman's River Mouth face their bleakest festive season in decades after the Kenton/Bushmans Chamber of Business and Tourism on Tuesday submitted… → Read More
Huge car allowances while salary coffer is bare
Despite its dire financial woes, the Amathole district municipality continues to pay its senior officials massive car and cellphone allowances → Read More
Court confirms Cogta’s right to fire errant EC councillor
The Grahamstown high court has dismissed with costs an application by former ANC Amahlathi councillor Siyabulela Malawu’s appeal against provincial Cogta MEC Xolile Nqatha’s decision to fire him from council. Judge Nomathamsanqa Beshe dismissed Malawu’s desperate last-ditch attempt to hang on to his position as ward 13 councillor. → Read More
Restore demolished houses now — EL judge
The department of public works and infrastructure has been ordered to immediately restore housing structures it demolished in July at Airport Park, in East London, to their original form. East London high court judge Belinda Hartle declared the national public works department broke the law when 77 houses built on the state-owned Greydell Farm in Bhongweni, near East London Airport, were… → Read More
Disaster day reveals state of BCM’s collapsing fire services
On an extraordinary day of fires on August 3, Buffalo City Metro’s ailing fire department was so poorly equipped and understaffed that only 31 out of 70 blazes could be doused, leaving 39 unattended. It took BCM firefighters two days to put out the 31 fires; and Of a total firefighting force of 142, only 35 firefighters were on duty in the day and 27 at night. → Read More
Dead body found in Eastern Beach toilets
A dead body was found in the public toilets at East London’s Eastern Beach on Wednesday → Read More
UPDATE | Two dead, one wounded in Southernwood cash-in-transit heist
Three people were shot during a cash-in transit heist in Southern Wood Spar on Monday morning → Read More