Drone footage reveals the dire state of the Qinira River as untreated sewage continues to pour into local waterways, leaving exhausted civic leaders and residents to battle infrastructure collapse and municipal silence alone.
Mbhashe municipality's sole independent councillor, Phumzile Msaro, has retained his seat in Xhora Mouth after fighting for a decade to bring emergency medical services to his rural community.
At SANCA Central Eastern Cape, director Nokuthula Mabika champions a holistic recovery model that looks beyond rehabilitation to restore families, rebuild trust, and support reintegration into community life.
Cancer patients in the Eastern Cape will no longer need to undertake long, exhausting journeys for treatment following the opening of a R416m oncology unit at Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital in Mthatha.
The Alfred Nzo District Municipality has advised Ntabankulu residents to boil their tap water as a precaution, despite recent lab tests confirming the supply meets national safety standards.
Health authorities have ruled out water and food contamination as the source of a gastrointestinal illness outbreak affecting over 100 students at Rhodes University in Makhanda.
Operation Smile returns to Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital in Mthatha to offer free, life-changing cleft lip and palate surgeries for children and adults across the Eastern Cape.
Health authorities are investigating a gastroenteritis outbreak at Rhodes University in Makhanda, after preliminary water tests detected E. coli and over 100 people reported falling ill.
Health authorities in the Eastern Cape have confirmed two new cases of mpox in Ndlambe and Makhanda, bringing the total to 26 as officials urge the public to avoid stigmatisation and ramp up contact tracing.
South Africa has recorded four new laboratory-confirmed mpox cases, bringing the national total to 26 since January 1, the department of health said on Sunday. The cases include 18 in the Western Cape, three in Gauteng, two each in the…
Public health facilities across the Eastern Cape have commenced the rollout of Lenacapavir, an injectable PrEP that delivers up to six months of HIV protection and cuts contraction risk by up to 99%.
Confirmation of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) at the Addo Elephant National Park has triggered urgent calls for unified intervention across SA's conservation and agricultural sectors. Two kudu have now tested positive, triggering fears the…
The Eastern Cape Liquor Board has rung alarms over how the prevalent manufacturing and selling of fake and illegal alcohol has continued to be a health risk for the public. This comes as members of the Qonce Crime Prevention Unit were at…
A pioneering rural healthcare project outside Mthatha using quad bikes and drones to deliver chronic medication serves as an example to communities across the Eastern Cape.
In rural Bhaziya near Mthatha, an innovative healthcare project is using quad bikes and overhead drone surveillance to deliver chronic medication directly to patients' homes, sparing vulnerable villagers exhausting 40km treks to the clinic.
