Quieter seas are good news for African penguins
Numbers of breeding pairs in Algoa Bay have bounced back since bunkering stopped
News | 12 August 2024
Multi-million rand Matatiele sports centre still unfinished after six years
But the municipality says the project is on track to being completed
News | 8 August 2024
Eastern Cape schools battle low learner numbers and teacher shortages
The education department wants to close some of these schools. But parents say they can’t afford transport fees to other schools.
News | 8 August 2024
Kidnapped shop owner found murdered
“We did the negotiations by ourselves because the police made it very clear that there’s nothing they can do to help us.”
News | 7 August 2024
SIU starts its probe into street lights tender in Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
Some streets in the metro have been dark for years
By Liezl Human and Thamsanqa Mbovane
News | 1 August 2024
Nurses stop work after finding human waste at clinic door
Mabandla Clinic in Kariega still has no fence or wall
Brief | 30 July 2024
Mpondoland dagga growers left out to dry
Six years after the Constitutional Court judgment, small-scale dagga growers are sliding deeper into poverty while businesses profit in South Africa’s “cowboy” cannabis industry
Feature | 29 July 2024
Apartheid-era hostel causing a stink in Eastern Cape town
More than 200 families live in the dilapidated Molo hostel in Butterworth without toilets - and the smell is annoying the neighbours
News | 26 July 2024
Apartheid-era flats are “a ticking time bomb”
Residents want the broken-down flats fixed; the municipality says the residents must first pay rent
News | 23 July 2024