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EFF president Julius Malema has been implicated in the VBS Mutual Bank looting scandal

EFF move to dissolve regional structures 'had to be done'

While the EFF says dissolving regional structures for failing to elect new leaders by the end of May had to be done, political analysts believe the move points to a party centrally controlled.

A demonstrator holds a placard during a Palestine solidarity march in Buffalo City, May 23 2021.

SA should cut all ties with ‘apartheid’ Israel, Mabuyane says

SA should do to Israel what the world did to the apartheid government — sever all diplomatic and trade ties.

ANC electoral committee chair Kgalema Motlanthe has given ANC members the green light to nominate ward and PR candidates for the October 27 municipal elections, but the process has to be wrapped up by the end of May

All systems go for nomination of ANC councillor candidates

ANC branches are racing against time to nominate candidates to stand as ward and proportional representative councillors in the October 27 municipal elections.

Health MEC Nomakhosazana Meth

Salaries, legal claims draining health department coffers, says Meth

Despite being allocated R26.4bn, the Eastern Cape health department will spend only R3.4bn delivering health-care services in the 2021/2022 financial year.

NEW RECRUIT: Patriotic Alliance president Gayton McKenzie, right, welcomes former  Eldorado Park Ward 18 DA councillor Fazel Jaffer to the party

Councillor dumps DA for the PA

One of the hard-working DA councillors in Johannesburg has jumped ship and joined the Patriotic Alliance.

Workers unload SA’s first Covid-19 vaccine doses as they arrive at OR Tambo airport in Johannesburg on Monday

Eastern Cape health department ‘ready for rollout’ as first batch of vaccine arrives in South Africa

With the Covid-19 vaccine, which arrived in SA on Monday, expected to be rolled out before the end of the month in the Eastern Cape, the provincial government says it will not rope in any businesses to distribute it

COTi Chocolate Manufacturers MD Chris Parkin. The company shipped its first pallet of products destined for the US from its Port Elizabeth factory on Monday

EC company takes bite out of US market

A Port Elizabeth chocolate manufacturer is ready to take over the world — one bar at a time — starting with the US

Co-operative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) MEC Xolile Nqatha has said that the issue around funding for vehicles for the eight local houses of traditional leaders in the Eastern Cape had been elevated to the office of the premier and provincial treasury.

OR Tambo's interim district boss bows out in style

Under his watch, outgoing acting municipal manager Fezekile Mphako had started dismantling the culture of impunity by instituting disciplinary processes against alleged wrongdoers in OR Tambo district municipality. Mphako also roped in…

Cogta MEC Xolile Nqatha.

OR Tambo acting municipal manager asks MEC to replace him

OR Tambo district municipality acting municipal manager Fezekile Mphako wants to step down from the hot seat, citing academic reasons. He submitted a request to step down and go back to his corporate services director job during a council…

BCM council speaker Alfred Mtsi

BCM mayor confirms the death of 'humble, soft spoken and visionary' BCM speaker Alfred Mtsi

Buffalo City Metro mayor Xola Pakati has confirmed the death of speaker Alfred Mtsi from Covid-19 complications. Mtsi died on Sunday morning at Life Beacon Bay Hospital in East London hospital. He was hospitalised on Tuesday night. In a…

Fikile Mbalula

OPINION | Time for Mbalula to stop the wisecracks and stand firm

Taxi industry leaders might as well have recited EFF leader Julius Malema’s speech in parliament earlier this year when he said he had the ruling party by the scrotum, regarding the power they seemed to enjoy over the government and…

SA healthcare system unequal, elitist and exploits workers, report suggests

The Covid-19 outbreak has shone the spotlight on the ill-treatment, poor compensation of overworked nurses and community healthcare workers (CHW).

Themba Wele has joined the ATM as he believes the EFF and the ANC are "not in it for the total emancipation of black people".

ATM ex-enthusiast jumps ship to EFF splinter

Just six months after joining the African Transformation Movement (ATM), Themba Wele has ditched the party, claiming it takes from the poor instead of developing them.

Water is a scarce resource and should not be wasted at any measure by all.

OPINION | Spirit of ubuntu needed now more than ever

When the City of Cape Town warned of a “looming Day Zero”, South Africans from all over the country went into panic mode.

OPINION | Bike patrol can only but help in crime fight

The East London beachfront can at times be highly dangerous.You don’t believe me? Then ask EFF national chair Dali Mpofu, who unfortunately must still have the scars to show for it. The top advocate was stabbed several times by Chuma…