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 The East Cape Development Corporation maintains that it's receiving large numbers of tenants who want to buy since it announced a bold step to sell its 238 stand-alone houses last December. This despite media reports about unfairness and

 The Food and Allied Workers Union says it will continue the fight to save the jobs of hundreds of workers following the closure of frozen food distributor McCain's in George. This, after the company announced that it would be consolidating

 Serious doubts remain over the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality's readiness to host a successful Splash Festival next weekend. Newly appointed municipal manager, Dr Lindiwe Msengana-Ndlela, announced on Wednesday that she had 'signed off on

 The five major dams serving the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro are now at a combined level of 89% of capacity, according to the latest readings from the municipality. Last week, the dams were at a combined level of 90.4% and a warning was issued

 The Knysna policeman accused of shooting a motorist in an apparent road rage attack at the weekend appeared briefly in the Knysna Magistrates Court on Tuesday. Forty two year-old sergeant Benjamin Theunissen, who is facing attempted murder

 Basic Education Minister, Angie Motshekga, says the infrastructure backlogs in the Eastern Cape remain a huge problem for her Department. Motshekga was speaking on Tuesday during the hand-over of the newly renovated Coega Primary School

 Newly appointed muncipal Manager, Dr Lindiwe Msengana-Ndlela says she has signed off this year's Splash Festival to the organisers -- just days before the start of the annual event in Port Elizabeth. Splash takes place over the Easter

 An off-duty police constable was shot and killed outside his home in Bethelsdorp, Port Elizabeth on Monday night. Police spokesperson, Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg, says the 27 year-old constable was attached to the Bethelsdorp SAPS

 The SA Institute of Race Relations says over 3.3 million crimes occur every year but half of them go unreported. The Institute says data from Stats SA's victims survey in 2011 showed that households and individuals experienced at least 3.3