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Construction is underway at the R2.5 billion rand Jeffreys Bay Wind Farm. The environmentally friendly commercial project will traverse across eight farms between Jeffreys Bay and Humansdorp and will consist of 60 wind turbines, producing

Agri East Cape says the R105 a day minimum wage for farm workers announced on Monday will have a major impact on Eastern Cape farmers. Agri East Cape president, Ernest Pringle, says very few sectors of the South Africa have ever been faced with a

The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, has welcomed the sentencing of a Mossel Bay man for catching a great white shark. Resident Leon Bekker was fined a whopping R120 000 or six months imprisonment for illegally catching a great

Police members from the seven stations making up the Mount Road Cluster carried out 213 arrests in Nelson Mandela Bay at the weekend. Police captain Stanley Jarvis said this represented an increase of about 90 per cent on arrests made in

The Eastern Cape Health Department has revealed that a total of 554 "ghost" workers are costing it millions of rands. Health MEC, Sicelo Gqobana, says a forensic audit by the Special Investigating Unit had revealed "devastating

Nelson Mandela Bay Executive Mayor, Zanoxolo Wayile, has appealed for peace, calm and tolerance between the communities of Uitenhage, following events over the past week, which saw the shop of a Somali burnt down and the rifling of the possessions

 The Department of Correctional Services says it will be beefing up security at St Albans prison outside Port Elizabeth. This follows this week's stabbing of a warder and the recent mass gang brawl which left three prisoners dead

The Mnquma Council in Butterworth has been given several days to respond to Local Government MEC' Mlibo Qoboshiyane's intention to invoke section 139 b of the Constitution to restore stability to the municipality. It was earlier incorrectly

 The Eastern Cape is hosting the official celebrations of World Wetlands Day. Deputy Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Rejoice Mabudafhasi, will lead the 2013 celebrations in Kareedouw on Friday. She is expected to be