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Forty-two residences at Rhodes University in Grahamstown are without water, due to failed attempts to repair a pump. The dean of students, Vivian de Klerk says the most recent report from the Makana municipality indicates that the planned repairs

 Parliament's portfolio committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has called for harsher penalties for sea polluters. Committee chairperson, Lulu Johnson, says there's an urgent need to protect marine resources around the country's

 Eastern Cape Economic Development MEC, Mcebisi Jonas, says economic and regional development in South Africa has been dominated by a Minerals Energy Complex. Delivering the opening address at the Nuclear Industry Association of South Africa

 Uitenhage police are investigating a case of murder after the body of an elderly woman was found in bushes on Tuesday morning. Police spokesperson, warrant officer Gerda Swart, says the woman, believed to be in her sixties, had been

 Motorist who have unpaid fines with the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality are reminded that August 15, 2013 will be the final day for the 3 month Traffic Amnesty. On May 15, Nelson Mandela Bay Executive Mayor, Councillor Benson Fihla

 Efforts to re float the stricken rice carrier, Kiani Satu, got underway again on Wednesday morning. SA Maritime Authority spokesperson, captain Nigel Campbell, says they were able to swing the bow another 30 degrees. He says this means

 The Democratic alliance in the Eastern Cape has called for Local Government MEC, Mlibo Qoboshiyane to step down. This, in the wake a damning auditor general report which revealed that no Eastern Cape municipality received a clean audit in

 An East London woman could face a charge of child neglect after her five children died in a fire that engulfed her shack on Monday. Police spokesperson, captain Mluleki Mbi, said the incident happened on Monday night in Msintsi Location at

 The SA Police Service says it will not tolerate any form of political violence in the build up to next year's elections. The Police Ministry made the comment on Tuesday as Minister Nathi Mthethwa visited the family of an ANC councillor who