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The trade union Hospersa says it will act in solidarity with senior state doctors in Port Elizabeth, should any disciplinary action be taken against them. The union says it also takes exception to the threats by the Department of Health after the

The Legal Resources Centre says it has written to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga, demanding an undertaking to make payments for school nutrition programmes and to deliver the workbooks still missing at three public schools in Port

 Two Port Elizabeth men have been jailed for life for the murder of a woman in the Lake Farm area three years ago. Tembinkosi Kweta and Sibulele Mazantsi were found guilty on Monday of the murder of Robin Eberhardt. She was stabbed to

Five people have appeared in the Oudtshoorn Magistrate's Court on charges of fraud and corruption. The National Prosecuting Authority in the Western Cape says three traffic officers from Calitzdorp and Oudtshoorn, a driving school owner and a

Senior state doctors in the Port Elizabeth Hospital Complex have accused the provincial health department of being unable to address the crisis affecting the delivery of health services in state institutions. In an unprecedented move on Monday

The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) has provided R23 million in loan funding for Africa’s first commercial shore-based marine finfish farm in East London. The Corporation said at the weekend that it had “taken steps to help

Eastern Cape police are searching for four gunmen who robbed a security guard collecting money at a business in Stutterheim on Monday morning. Police spokesperson, major Ernest Sigobe, says four gunmen confronted the guard as he was leaving a

 Southern Cape police have arrested an 18 year-old youth in connection with a murder at a tavern in Smutsville in Sedgefield. Police captain Bernadine Steyn says the suspect was involved in an argument with 20 year old Romeo Slingers

 The death of legendary Addo elephant, Hapoor junior in March, has had a happy sequel. Officials at Pumba private game reserve say a baby female elephant sired by him has been born in the park. Pumba conservation manager, Richard Pearse