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Key service delivery programmes for Eastern Cape Municipalities will come under the spotlight during a two-day meeting between Local Government MEC, Mlibo Qoboshiyane and top municipal officials. National Minister, Richard Baloyi, Aaron

 The port of Port Elizabeth will welcome the world's first ship of its size to employ a hybrid electric power plant, and the first ship ever to produce zero emissions while berthed. The 200 metre long hybrid car carrier, Emerald Ace

 The opening of Sedgfield's first taxi rank is expected to ease traffic congestion in the Garden Route town, particularly over holiday periods. With schools breaking up for the mid-year holidays on Friday, Sedgefield is set to welcome scores

Robbers have made off with cigarettes and medicines worth nearly R500 000 in two separate armed robberies in Port Elizabeth. Police spokesperson, Captain Stanley Jarvis, says employees of a tobacco firm were off-loading cigarettes at a spaza shop

Community television station, Bay TV, says it has lodged a formal complaint with the national police commissioner for allegedly being forced by police to hand over footage of the murder of a Somali national in Port Elizabeth. In a statement today

 The Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements will struggle to significantly reduce the backlog of 750 000 housing units. The Bhisho government's standing committee on human settlements says in a report that it reached this conclusion in

The Blue Crane Route Municipality has applied to the National Energy Regulator to increase its electricity tariff above the national guideline of seven percent. Metrominute reports that the municipality wants to impose an increase of 8.3% from

 The Department of Basic Education has hit out at the lobby group Equal Education over its ongoing campaign to establish norms and standards for schooling in the country. A learner took the Department to court in Bhisho on Tuesday with the

 John Stoffels, the Speaker for the Oudtshoorn municipality, told 11 DA councillors today that their request for a special council meeting on Wednesday was "unlawful and invalid" Instead, a special workshop is scheduled for