Despite the effects of Covid-19 on the local economy, a robust recovery is possible through the combined efforts of all role players in the Eastern Cape export industry. Speaking at Exporters Eastern Cape Exporter of the Year online…
The South African National Defence Force has deployed 52 healthcare workers to the Eastern Cape. Their deployment was made after Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane admitted last week that the province was overwhelmed with Covid-19 cases…
Most schools in the Eastern Cape are masked up and ready to begin teaching on Monday, but there remain some that lack the necessary equipment and ablution facilities and may struggle to reopen. DispatchLIVE spoke to representatives from a…
The law has finally caught up with two service providers who allegedly stole more than R3m a decade ago from the health department in the Eastern Cape. They allegedly used computer monitoring software to record keystrokes on computers,…
The rural community around Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape have come together to ensure that their best-performing school‚ Nyanga Senior Secondary‚ is ready for the reopening of schools next week. A group of residents literally rolled up their…
Eastern Cape province Covid-19 Statistics – Breakdown by district as at 16.5.2020.
The Eastern Cape health department on Friday provided DispatchLIVE with a breakdown of Buffalo City Metro’s currently active confirmed Covid-19 cases. The metro, which has been identified as a provincial coronavirus hotspot, had a total…
Day 50 level 4 lockdown – EC Stats per district.
Eighty people travelling to the Eastern Cape from the Western Cape have now tested positive for the Covid-19 coronavirus. This is 24 more than the figure released earlier in the day, according to the Eastern Cape health department who on…
The Eastern Cape health department on Sunday revealed the province’s latest breakdown of provincial Covid-19 infections by district. On Saturday day night the provincial count rose to 732 with no new deaths. To date the Eastern Cape has…
The Eastern Cape has 63 new Covid-19 cases, the health department announced on Friday evening. The pandemic has claimed a total of 79 lives in SA. On Friday, the health ministry announced 267 new positive Covid-19 cases. This brought the…
The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in SA has risen to 2,415. In the Eastern Cape, the number has risen to 174 according to health minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize. However, numbers provided by health MEC Sindiswa Gomba’s office put the…
An Eastern Cape church minister was arrested for breaching lockdown rules in Whittlesea, Eastern Cape, on Saturday. The reverend was arrested together with the owner of the property where the service was held. “SAPS can confirm that…
Church goers who held an Easter church service were arrested for breaching lockdown regulations at Khasa village in Elliotdale on Friday. The video of the arrests was widely circulated on social media, with many users blasting the…
Western Cape transport MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela is aware of the huge number of minibus taxis that have been stopped at Eastern Cape roadblocks. On Friday, taxis were backed up for hundreds of metres at roadblocks in parts of the…
