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R15m birth injury payout could put Eastern Cape health finances under strain

From ‘insider’ to people saver

What turned Shiksha Gallow into a campaigner for cannabis to be used in formal medical treatments? “I was once an insider,” she says. At the start…

Dr Shiksha Gallow and husband Wayne of Gonubie celebrate her third and toughest doctorate.

EC’s medical cannabis prostate cancer research knocks on global doors

Pioneering South African researcher Dr Shiksha Gallow's study reveals that combining medicinal cannabis with chemotherapy led to a 63% rate of…

King Ndamase  Ndamase and is then fiance Tina Tolibadi, now Queen MaDosini Tina Ndamase, in 2011.

Eastern Cape royal couple make history

An Eastern Cape royal couple has made history as King Ndamase Ndlovuyezwe Ndamase and Queen MaDosini Tina Ndamase become the first husband and wife…

Mourners at the memorial service of Jonas Jongisizwe “JJ” Ndzambule

Calls for Mthatha West villages to be renamed after founder JJ Ndzambule

A maintenance worker at the East London Golf Club was killed after he was crushed by the heavy construction material being offloaded from a truck.
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Family distraught after golf club worker crushed to death

Forty-nine-year-old Nkosinathi "Marks" Zenani, who died as a result of a freak accident while at work on Friday, was an employee of the East London…

Street Shine gets underway in Nahoon.
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'A street that shines is a street people will buy into'

A short stretch of Beach Road is trying something talked about in the city for years – treating one street as if it belongs to the people who live…

 Pensioners and Northcrest homeowners Nokwindla Makiwane and Nozibeko Mqwebedu show one of the four KSD municipality electricity transformers responsible for powering their homes that were set on fire by unknown people. Picture: LULAMILE FENI
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Mthatha pensioners lash out at long-lasting power outages

Pensioners and homeowners in the Northcrest suburb of Mthatha are expressing severe frustration with the King Sabata Dalindyebo municipality…

LWANDA MAQWELANE | Masked protest raises hard questions for Rhodes

Rhodes University, small as it may be relative to many of its peers, has produced some of SA’s leading intellectual minds and captains of industry…

MANDLENKOSI MAPHOSA | Climate fight must embrace indigenous wisdom too

Every September, South Africans pause to celebrate Heritage Month, a time of traditional dress, indigenous cuisine, music and dance. Yet if we allow…

NEVER-ENDING TASK: Buffalo City Metro municipal workers assess a newly installed 630kVA distribution transformer at the Dimbaza Industrial Zone. Employees expressed frustration, stating they are routinely deployed to replace stolen cables and transformers at the same sites almost weekly. Picture: MFUNDO PILISO
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Government promises to beef up security at Dimbaza industrial park

The Eastern Cape provincial government is making a plan to increase security at its Dimbaza industrial park amid the rampant cable theft,…

An illustration depicting cattle farming against the rural Wild Coast landscape. OR Tambo District Municipality has invested about R3.4m in the Lambasi Cutwini Cattle Breeding Project near Lusikisiki as part of efforts to support rural economic development.

R3.4m cattle project sows seeds for rural growth

Transport minister Barbara Creecy.

Transport Month must deliver more than slogans

Road fatalities remain a huge challenge in SA. Every year, festive season and Easter holiday statistics paint a grim picture of lives lost on our…

A maintenance worker at the East London Golf Club was killed after he was crushed by the heavy construction material being offloaded from a truck.

Golf club worker crushed to death by glass panels

A 50-year-old maintenance worker died after being crushed by heavy glass panels while offloading construction materials at the East London Golf Club…

Parolees get 25 years for Dutywa bank robbery

Two parolees convicted over a brazen Dutywa bank robbery and the death of an accomplice during a subsequent shootout with police have been sentenced…

Serial rapist sentenced to eight life terms

Thabile Bhino Nyakiso, a serial rapist described as “inhumane and cruel” who targeted and raped eight women, including two teenage girls, has been…

A portion of the Cookhouse wind farm viewed from the N2 freeway. The Golden Valley wind farm will get a welcome boost from the GreenX Note II fund

Cookhouse wind trust powers new economic hub, local jobs, skills

The Cookhouse Wind Farm Community Trust (CWFCT) has announced ambitious plans for a 4ha greenfield development along the N10 corridor, about 7km…

Rhodes University students protest in Makhanda.

Rhodes fees protest suspended after talks

A disruptive student protest over Rhodes University’s proposed new fee payment protocol has been suspended, with the university returning to normal…

INSIGHT | Mother-tongue policy must deliver equal education

INSIGHT | True test of Madlanga Commission will be whether referrals of wrongdoing become credible investigations

SA’s criminal justice crisis presents an uncomfortable paradox. The institutions accused of harbouring political interference, corruption and…