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Former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke. (Photo: Elmond Jiyane, GCIS)

Battle over the seat of Eastern Cape high court continues

The high court rationalisation committee wants it to be moved from Makhanda to Bhisho, but lawyers argue that this will is irrational

Eastern Cape ANC leaders Babalo Madikizela (left) and Oscar Mabuyane (right).

Madikizela explains how monies were exchanged in Winnie Madikizela-Mandela memorial scandal

Eastern Cape’s head of public works Babalo Madikizela has hit back at Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, saying she had no authority to investigate him

Graphic: John McCann

Build infrastructure to support the fourth industrial revolution

Technology has the potential to solve many of the country’s social problems such as electricity production and the eradication of pit latrines

White South Africans protested against changing the name of Pretoria, so called after Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius, to Tshwane, the meaning of which is not certain but may have been after a chief’s son. (Lisa Hnatowicz/Gallo Images/Foto24)

Change the names to rid SA of its colonial, apartheid past

The pace of renaming places to rid them of their colonial and apartheid past is too slow

Nhlanhla Nene

Scholars debate Sopa

‘Aren’t the strategies the government has implemented without first fixing the basics just a waste of money?’

E Cape health crippled by R19-billion backlog

The Eastern Cape health department is facing a R19-billion infrastructure backlog that is crippling service delivery in the province.

Teachers march in Eastern Cape, but no strike… yet

Teachers marching in Bhisho in the Eastern Cape have handed a memorandum detailing their concerns to education authorities, their union says.

Bhisho meeting with Protector yields corruption claims

Claims of corruption in the Eastern Cape housing department, two municipalities and a public hospital will be probed by Thuli Madonsela.