The Eastern Cape government has urged ProvJoints to tighten its oversight to ensure a free and fair election in the Eastern Cape. This follows violence, looting and road blockades in and around Mthatha this morning, May 27. Provjoints is…
Six people died and seven others were injured in two separate road crashes in the Eastern Cape late Friday October 6. Four people died and four were injured in head-on collision on the N2 between Peddie and Makhanda. A Toyota Avanza with…
A wounded Eastern Cape man was hospitalised after a shark attack on Monday afternoon at Mngcibe beach near Mthatha. The man, believed to be in his 40s, is said to have been diving for crayfish before the predator attacked his upper body.…
Violence broke out in Mthatha when protesting students charged police and torched a Nyala armoured personnel carrier at the entrance of Walter Sisulu University’s Nelson Mandela Drive campus on Monday. This came after protesting students…
An ambulance collided with a Quantum just before Ultra City Mthatha on Saturday morning. The ambulance was driving from Mbekweni Health centre, heading to Mthatha with a patient on board. A Toyota Quantum made a u-turn, striking the…
The Eastern Cape has a long history of (illicit) Cannabis cultivation with established knowledgeable farmers and land race genetics that are naturalized, drought tolerant and well placed to form the backbone of a new industrial and…
Public and private sector services in at least four Eastern Cape cities will come to a standstill on Wednesday as hundreds of workers are expected to join the national strike organised by Cosatu. Speaking on behalf of the union on…
The Kimberley high court has sentenced a 36-year-old man to two life terms for the murder of his girlfriend and their 11-month-old daughter. Michael Pieterson was also sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for defeating the ends of…
The Mthatha high court heard on Tuesday that magistrates and prosecutors were afraid to participate in investigations in the wake of the Ngcobo police station massacre. Veteran detective Lt-Gen Mark Magadlela was tasked with overseeing…
Joy was written on the faces of water-starved villagers near Mthatha on Wednesday when clean water came out their taps for the first time in decades. In 2013, residents of Ntilini village in Lower Xhongora told the Dispatch that the last…
King Sabata Dalindyebo municipality councillor Mbongeni Mabaso has been criminally charged with trying to sell an RDP house in Mthatha. Mabaso allegedly took R25,000 from the desperate resident in exchange for the free government house.…
The Eastern Cape government plans to transform the old Mthatha Airport hangars, Buffalo City Stadium and a number of other state properties into isolation and quarantine sites. This was revealed on Tuesday by provincial health head Dr…
A fatal accident occurred on Sutherland Street in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape in the early hours of October 9 2019. A tipper truck crashed into a minibus transporting 20 street hawkers from Durban to Port Elizabeth. The truck sped through…
