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Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane

How the Eastern Cape was spared

It is 8am on Tuesday and Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane is about to appeal to the patriotic side of the taxi industry.

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.

Kariega ward 50 councillor Lunga Nombexeza faces four counts of misconduct after he accused Nelson Mandela Bay ANC bosses of fraud and corruption on social media

Bay ANC councillor in trouble for online slurs against party bosses

Barely a month after an attempted murder charge against him was withdrawn, troubled Nelson Mandela Bay ANC councillor Lunga Nombexeza has been slapped with four counts of misconduct.

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 SA

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

PE company taking 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.

From cleaner to car dealership owner

An Eastern Cape-born businessman who has worked his way up from being a cleaner wants to disrupt the car dealership industry with his new business, Avari Cars.

Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane.

Faction members in bid to collapse ANC rule in EC — Mabuyane

Ill-disciplined and factional ANC members are trying to collapse governance in Eastern Cape municipalities, provincial party boss Oscar Mabuyane has said. In a speech sent to the media on Monday night, which he delivered at a special ANC…

'Get back into the office to boost economy'

The sooner more people stopped working from home and went back to the office, the sooner the stagnant SA economy would start to recover.

Health minister Zweli Mkhize

No PPE, no work, says Mkhize

Where there is no personal protective equipment, frontline workers should not work as that places them at risk of contracting Covid-19, health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Wednesday afternoon.

Former public protector Thuli Madonsela has been unveiled as one of the judges in the Miss SA 2022 pageant.

Thuli Madonsela suggests corruption amnesty

The key to rooting out corruption in SA might just be through a truth and reconciliation commission where those involved in the scourge, which has seen billions of rand siphoned from the fiscus, would confess their unscrupulous behaviour…

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…