Memorial service of the five cops held in Engcobo

27th February 2018 Mbulelo Sisulu Mzi Velapi 0

A memorial service was held on Tuesday for police officers killed at the Engcobo Police Station in the Eastern Cape last week. Five officers and a retired soldier were killed when a gang attacked the station. Suspects linked to a cult in a nearby village were arrested in a raid on their church.

Government slow to fix storm damaged school

12th February 2018 Mbulelo Sisulu 0

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.

Careworkers march for better working conditions

10th November 2017 Chris Gilili 0

Workers from the National Union of Care Workers of South Africa marched from Bisho Stadium to the offices of the Eastern Cape Department of Health to highlight the poor conditions that care workers work under, especially the issue of working discontinuously for years under contracts.

Ramaphosa officially opens Empilisweni HIV/AIDS and Orphans care centre

19th September 2017 Manqulo Nyakombi 0

Empilisweni Centre, mainly funded by National Lottery, helps the community of Ndevana and surrounding areas. It has 200 volunteers who do door-to-door visits to needy families. They clean houses for elderly people, assist orphans and help patients with chronic conditions and those who struggle to travel either due to lack of finance or sickness.