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Members of teacher union Sadtu have escalated their campaign of disrupting education district offices across the Eastern Cape. Education Department spokesperson, Loyiso Pulumani, says Sadtu members effectively shut down the education department

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University will be the first tertiary institution to embrace an initiative aimed at transforming students into so-called "life champions". This is a national project aimed at following the vision and values

Port Elizabeth police have arrested a young man in connection with one of two shooting incidents in Helenvale last night. Police spokesperson, Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg, says the suspect and two accomplices approached a 26-year-old man

An 11-year-old boy has drowned in a farm dam near Alexandria in the Eastern Cape. Police Captain Mali Govender, says the child was swimming with friends in the dam when he disappeared under the water yesterday afternoon. His friends were unable to

One person has died and three others injured in an accident on the N-2 between Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown. Provincial transport spokesperson Tshepo Machaea says the driver of a City Golf lost control and the vehicle overturned this morning

Agri Eastern Cape says the weekend farm attack in the Alexandria area is one of a renewed spate of attacks on commercial farmers since December. Agri Eastern Cape president, Ernest Pringle, says government's inability to deal with crime, as is

East London police have arrested a 43 year old man after a large quantity of drugs were found in his house in Vergenoeg in Buffalo Flats. Members of the city's crime intelligence unit as well as the tactical reponse team, were armed with a search

The Eastern Cape Education Department says it will be seeking an interdict later this week to prevent the disruption of work at district education offices. This, after members of teacher's union Sadtu allegedly forced personnel out of the

Buffalo City law enforcement services say they're determined to shut down bogus doctors who put up misleading posters in the East London CBD. Metro communications manager Keith Ngesi says law enforcement officers have closed in on eight of the so