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  The "Keep Grahamstown Grahamstown" campaign says it rejects the re-opening of the name-change debate as a flagrant abuse and waste of public funds. Spokesperson, Jock McConnachie, said this was announced by Makana mayor Zamuxolo

The Eastern Cape health department and Africare will launch a R12m HIV/Aids prevention, care and treatment project in Lady Frere on Friday. Africare is an American organisation which has been assisting the department in HIV related projects since

An agreement has been brokered that effectively ends two days of protests by residents of Walmer Township in Port Elizabeth. Early on Thursday morning Nelson Mandela Bay executive mayor Zanoxolo Wayile and senior management addressed a large

 Police are on high alert in the Walmer Township area of Port Elizabeth after having to use water canon and stun grenades to disperse service delivery protesters on Wednesday. Police Captain Stanley Jarvis told AlgoaFM news that councillors

Eastern Cape premier, Noxolo Kiviet, will herald an historic moment in the evolution of coal mining in the Eastern Cape. On Friday the premier the premier will initiate the first in a series of major blasts that will signify the commencement of

Members of the Oudtshoorn cluster K-9 unit have arrested three people and seized dagga and counterfeit cigarettes valued at nearly R700,000. Southern Cape police spokesperson captain Malcolm Pojie said in the first incident, police seized dagga

Former South African president Nelson Mandela made his first public appearance in six months on Wednesday when he received a symbolic flame to mark the ruling ANC's centenary at his rural home in Qunu. A healthy-looking Mandela, seated on an

 Police at Elliotdale in the Eastern Cape have arrested nine school children aged 17 and 18. They were arrested for allegedly setting fire to their Thongani Junior Secondary School premises in Thongani Village in Elliotdale just outside

Nelson Mandela Bay regional ANC Chairperson Nceba Faku has arrived at Walmer Township in Port Elizabeth to address irate residents who are staging a service delivery protest. A large crowd of up to 1,000 people has gathered at the entrance to