Ndlambe Municipality has confirmed that it is currently in discussion with the Premier’s Office about the provincial government’s small town revitalisation project. Port Alfred is one of the towns identified by the Office of the Premier…
The Provincial Commissioner of the Eastern Cape, Lieutenant General Nomthetheleli Mene has welcomed the substantial sentence handed down to rapist, Siyabulela “Ta Wara” Jamani/Vulindlu (25), who was sentenced on Tuesday, 23 August 2022 in…
The Pretoria North magistrate’s court on Friday sentenced two men to 15 years in jail each for tampering with or destroying essential infrastructure. Mozambicans Joel Kabene and July Sithole, both 34, were also sentenced to two years’…
In an extraordinary tribute to the vision of Royal St Andrew’s Hotel founder, Martin Bekker, his family recently announced a R400000 sponsorship for the Royal St Andrew’s Hotel Amanzi Challenge. The event, founded in 2017, will take place…
Seven men have been sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment each after pleading guilty to tampering with, damaging and destroying essential Transnet railway infrastructure. Mlamuli Mntungwana, 38, Sipho Mkhwanazi, 52, Felamandla Mpanza, 45,…
Port Alfred residents responded positively to the call for a Kowie River clean up organised by the Port Alfred River and Ski-boat Club (PARSC) together with Cunny Kla Nie river cruises recently. Three other boats, including two barges and…
The Cradock crime prevention unit confiscated 1.4 tons of abalone this week. Police spokesperson Lariane Jonker said the unit’s members were doing patrols on Wednesday when they spotted two suspicious bakkies in convoy en route through…
A 33-year-old man who escaped from police holding cells outside Groblersdal last year, has been rearrested, Limpopo police said on Thursday. Police spokesperson Col Moatshe Ngoepe said the suspect had escaped with other inmates who were…
There has been a substantial increase in employment recovery due to eased lockdown measures from last year, but the country continues to battle against hunger. This is according to a National Income Dynamics Study Coronavirus Rapid Mobile…
The Western Cape recorded the biggest decline in road accident fatalities over the festive season, closely followed by KwaZulu-Natal. Releasing the 2020 festive period stats on Friday in Johannesburg, transport minister Fikile Mbalula…
A gang of robbers are on the run after allegedly robbing a jewellery store in the Gateway shopping centre in Umhlanga, north of Durban, on Friday. Private armed response security company Marshall Security said it received reports of a…
Eskom suspended load-shedding on Friday, saying the demand for electricity had dropped before the weekend. This comes after the energy supplier had announced two nights of load-shedding on Wednesday and Thursday. The utility is asking…
Gift of the Givers plans to help the broader Port Alfred community too. Pleas from concerned Port Alfred residents to Gift of the Givers were too loud to be ignored and, as a result, on Monday afternoon the charitable organisation made…
“Many visit these departments the whole week without being helped because of the long queues” “We are here to assist communities from waking up very early in the morning to go and stand in long queues at Home affairs, Sassa, and the…
The department of basic education has launched an investigation into the leaking of the matric mathematics paper 2 just hours before it was due to be written. Matrics wrote the paper, starting off the third week of their National Senior…
