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The Democratic Alliance has won the municipal by-election in Ward Seven of the Bitou municipality at Plettenberg Bay. DA candidate Annelise Olivier secured just under 54% of the vote on Wednesday's by-election which saw a high voter turnout of

The Democratic Alliance Student's Organisation - DASO - has won control of the Student Representative's Council at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth. The annual SRC elections were held on Wednesday with DASO winning

The Department of Education in the Eastern Cape and the National Department are facing yet another legal battle. This, over its failure to pay more than R25m owed to teachers as directed in a court order in March. On Wednesday the Grahamstown

By Yolande Stander A prominent George dentist was convicted on several charges involving sexual acts on a minor after a family friend's 15-year-old son claimed he was sexually assaulted by the man during a sleepover about three years ago

Church leaders in Nelson Mandela Bay have called a service delivery summit where several Eastern Cape MEC's will be asked to account for the state of affairs in their various departments. The service delivery summit is being organised the

Eastern Cape police have welcomed the lengthy jail term imposed on a man who was convicted of raping a nine year old girl last August. Police spokesperson, Warrant Officer Gerda Swart, says 26-year-old Romano Adams, was sentenced to 25 years in

Port Elizabeth police have arrested three suspects for the possession of stolen property from an unused school in Govan Mbeki Township. Warrant officer, Dumile Gwavu, says these incidents of alleged theft started over the weekend. Gwavu says

Farmers in the Molteno, Sterkstroom, Dordrecht, Jamestown and Somerset-East areas suffered severe losses following a series of devastating veld fires last week. Agri Eastern Cape says initial estimates indicate that approximately 45-thousand

The Coega Development Corporation says its school infrastructure delivery programme in the Eastern Cape is on track. The CDC says it has achieved an 82% completion rate of the R638 million school infrastructure improvement programme for the