Motorists complain of bad roads in Mnquma
The appalling condition of roads in Eastern Cape towns is a resounding complaint from motorists who have to regularly repair their vehicles.
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Land rights group scorns MEC’s call for Western Cape farmers to move East
Before the delivery of the State of the Nation address that had land expropriation as a talking point, the Eastern Cape MEC released a statement inviting commercial farmers in the drought stricken Western Cape to move and invest in the Eastern Cape, something a land rights group describes as an insult to small-scale farmers.
Trade unions and #UniteBehind happy with PRASA regional manager ‘suspension’
PRASA in the Western Cape has announced that it has put its regional head on special leave . This coincides with the reopening of Cape Town’s busiest train route that was suspended for 6 weeks.
Metrorail central line resumes operation
Cape Town’s busiest train route, the central line has been reopened after 6 weeks of suspension following the shooting murder of a security guard at Chris Hani station in Khayelitsha.
Connecting the dots between corrupt police leadership and drug abuse
On 17 January, Police Minister Fikile Mbalula and the new National Police Commissioner, Lieutenant General Khehla Sithole announced crime intelligence boss, Richard Mdluli, had finally been relieved of his duties. Since his suspension seven years ago, he has reportedly earned around R8-million and persistently meddled in affairs of the state. He will retire with full benefits and apparent impunity for his role in pillaging a Crime Intelligence secret slush fund. Mdluli has been widely blamed for the downfall of, amongst others, the former Hawks head Anwar Dramat, former NPA prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach, and Gauteng corruption-buster, former Major General Shadrack Sibiya. But he has thousands of lesser-known victims – collateral damage along the road to ‘a better life’ for some.
Science lab a boost for Mdantsane school
Lack of resources especially for science remains one of the biggest challenges in providing quality education in township and rural schools in the Eastern Cape and throughout the country.
Reconciliation, a difficult journey for the Aboriginal peoples in Canada
Yellowknife is a Canadian city north of the 60th parallel. It is a Saturday in November and the NWT (Northwest Territories) Wellness Society is holding […]
Community group demands free basic electricity
Community activists have taken the Msunduzi Municipality to court for not providing free basic electricity to the residents.
Maths and Science teacher shortage a challenge in the Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape fared poorly in the 2017 matric results and the lack of especially mathematics teachers is cited as one of the reasons. Only 42% of the province’s pupils who wrote pure maths passed the subject.
In Uganda, unions are helping to drive transport workers into decent work
Three years ago, Samuel Mugisha almost quit his job. As the driver of a motorbike taxi (known locally as a boda-boda) in the Ugandan capital […]
City ‘satisfied’ with Secureco hitmen
Two Glebelands residents and employees of the politically connected private security company, Secureco METSU, contracted by the eThekwini Municipality to provide security at the hostel, have been implicated in at least 7 Glebelands murders and a further 3 attempted murders – Sivuyile Luna, whose trial for the murder of a Glebelands woman in Jan 2017, was remanded to February this year and Bongani Mbhele, for whom police recently issued a ‘wanted’ statement. Luna was a Block 52 resident while employed to undertake armed patrols at the hostel. Mbhele has been employed by Fidelity (Secureco’s holding company) since at least 2011, and although he did not perform guarding duties at the hostel, he is believed to have murdered at least 5 people by the time he was first arrested (and later released) in September 2015.
Government slow to fix storm damaged school
Learning and teaching is compromised in one of the schools affected by a recent storm in the Eastern Cape. The Department of Education claims that Disaster Management has not finalised the report, three weeks after the school’s roof was damaged.
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