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 Buffalo City Metro say there's been an improvement in budget spending during this financial year. Executive mayor Zukiswa Ncitha says they have spent 11% of their R5.3 billion budget allocation, a big improvement from last year's five

 A jobless Eastern Cape woman has won a new car after sending 19-thousand text messages -- at a combined cost of R28 000 in a competition. Nomandiyephi Botha, from Lady Frere, said yesterday that she sent SMS's during the day and another 300

  The vice principal of a primary school in Knysna who is charged with sexually assaulting a 12-year-old learner, has made another court appearance. He was not asked to plead and his bail of R4 000 was extended when he appeared in the

 The Eastern Cape Department of Education says corpral punsihment has long been abolished in South Africa and if anyone is found guilty of the crime there will be consequences. This follows a recent incident where a teacher reportedly lashed

 The National Council of SPCAs is issuing an appeal to everyone with regard to fireworks over the forthcoming Diwali and Guy Fawkes period. The appeal is for restraint. Diwali is the Festival of Light and its beauty is inherent. Loud bangs

 Work on the R1.7-billion Baywest Mall along the N2 freeway in Port Elizabeth’s western suburbs is forging ahead, with work on the concrete super structure already underway as this aerial photograph, taken this week shows. The concrete

 Two men were arrested in connection with a robbery in Stutterheim on Tuesday. Eastern Cape police spokesperson, Lieutenant Siphokazi Mawisa says one of the men was caught near an ATM in Hill Street, after a woman told the police she had

 A number of areas in Port Elizabeth were still without power a while ago, following last night's fierce electric storm. The bright lighing lit up the night sky from about one o'clock on Wednesday morning, accompanied by loud thunder which

 Eastern Cape Local Government MEC, Mlibo Qoboshiyane, has called on the police and the courts to show no mercy towards people inciting violence and destroying property. The call comes after two community protests in Ngqamakhwe and