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Wind down with The Hyacinth Wild in EL this Friday

Alt-rock folk band The Hyacinth Wild have been tripping across the Eastern Cape, performing intimate shows in Hogsback and Makhanda and, on Friday, will be in East ...

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Court battle over Sizwe Kupelo benefits

The Eastern Cape health department has instituted legal proceedings against its spokesperson, Sizwe Kupelo, after scrapping benefits he had been ...

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Queen’s College holds reunion in 166th year

In a heartwarming display of camaraderie and nostalgia, more than a hundred former pupils of Queen’s College recently gathered for their reunion, ...

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Livestock owners tell of chilling threats

“If you are a daredevil, first dig your own grave, then come out and dare to fight us. You will see who will be the last man standing and if your livestock stays in your homestead.”  This, according to terrified livestock owners, is the threat ...
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Scholar transport set to grind to halt due to taxi strike

Despite a R90m cash injection into scholar transport at the beginning of 2024, thousands of pupils in the Eastern ...

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Eastern Cape doctors in overtime row

Doctors across the Eastern Cape are due to lose one third of their salaries after a dispute with the Department of ...

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BREAKING | East London schools to close amid scholar transport shutdown threat

Several East London schools will shut their doors on Thursday in anticipation of the planned shutdown by scholar ...

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Plea to scholar transport operators to reconsider strike

The Eastern Cape transport department on Wednesday evening pleaded with angry Eastern Cape scholar operators to ...

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Are you ready? Entries open for the 2024 Telkom Radio Awards

SPONSORED | SA industry celebrates its 100 years of radio

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UFH ranked among world's top 2,000 universities for 2024

SPONSORED | The University of Fort Hare showed a remarkable ascent in the latest URAP World Rankings measuring academic ...

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Ramaphosa urges workers to ensure ANC outright majority

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has called on workers to ensure the ANC gets an outright majority at the polls later this ...

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Fake post about deadly Covid strain is misleading, says health department

The health department has dismissed social media reports of a new Covid variant, and asked the public to ignore this ...

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Cable theft suspected as tunnel fire cuts power to central Johannesburg

Residents of Braamfontein, the CBD and Parktown are without electricity and smoked out by the underground cable fire in ...

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Rain brings relief for Table Mountain firefighters

Light rain in Cape Town is helping to contain a wildfire on Table Mountain caused by a lightening strike on Saturday.

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WATCH | Bhekisisa: Three decades and six ministers: How is SA’s healthcare system coping?

From struggles and scandals to feats and forward thinking, South Africa’s health system has seen it all over the past ...

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Meter taxi association chairperson killed in Tshwane, KZN suspect caught

A 30-year-old suspect from Inanda in KwaZulu-Natal was arrested immediately after allegedly fatally shooting a ...

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Anele Tembe’s father Moses did not bankroll book: author

Melinda Ferguson, who penned a book about Anele Tembe and Kiernan “AKA” Forbes' relationship, has clarified the ...

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Arrest landlords who house undocumented people: Faith Mazibuko

Gauteng community safety MEC Faith Mazibuko has warned residents who have undocumented migrants that when police that ...