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Soiled soil: Environmental and Rural Solutions is providing mothers in the Eastern Cape with a more environmentally friendly alternative to disposable nappies, which are a major source of pollution. Photo: Getty Images

Taking the poo-lution out of nappies

An NGO is providing parents with reusable nappies made out of bamboo fibre to replace disposable ones

How environmental conservation is being inspired among Matatiele youth

Environmental and Rural Solutions (ERS) has been making a profound impact for the past 21 years

Mayor of Matatiele in the Eastern Cape, Sonwabile Mngenela. (matatiele.gov.za)

Matatiele council to probe mayor’s alleged misuse of funds to attend ANC conference

Move comes after a councillor from an opposition party filed an urgent motion to look into the allegations

Mayor of Matatiele in the Eastern Cape, Sonwabile Mngenela. (matatiele.gov.za)

Matatiele mayor allegedly used municipal funds to attend Eastern Cape ANC conference

The municipality spent more than R13 000 to cover mayor’s costs for a meeting on HIV/Aids, which officials say he did not show up for

Healthy outlook: The grasslands, soils and wetlands in the Matatiele area are being restored, helping to protect the Maloti-Drakensberg watershed, essential to South Africa’s water supply and with profitable spinoffs for communal livestock farmers. (Willeen Olivier)

Project to heal the land a success

A partnership with chiefs, NGOs and businesses is helping Matatiele’s small-scale farmers adopt conservation practices and so turn a profit

Energy minister Jeff Radebe. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)

​‘Presidential’ Radebe saves ANC coalition with AIC

Both parties have agreed to set timelines for the introduction of provincial legislature Bills to amend the border after the next meeting on March 15.

Applications for 2017 community service and internship positions for medical graduates have just closed but were delayed as provinces scrambled to find money to open posts

A tiny party throws the ANC a bone during post-election coalition bartering

The little-known AIC helps the ruling party clinch Ekurhuleni and Rustenberg — and the price rectifies the decade-old Matatiele boundary dispute.

Matatiele calm after demarcation violence

Matatiele was calm on Friday in the wake of violence that erupted following a march in support of the town’s incorporation into the Eastern Cape.

Mbeki visits Eastern Cape households

President Thabo Mbeki is currently visiting ordinary households in the rural community of Matatiele in the Eastern Cape, it was reported on Saturday.

Death toll from bus crash stands at 22, say cops

The death toll for the Eastern Cape bus crash stood at 22, including five children, police announced on Wednesday. The bus — which belongs to a private bus company — careened…

Court postpones Matatiele demarcation decision

The political party formed to keep Matatiele in KwaZulu-Natal, the African Independent Congress, says it is disappointed in the Constitutional Court’s decision not to make a…

‘Doctors can’t leave patients to fight their own battles’

An investigation has been ordered into an Eastern Cape doctor’s alleged refusal to treat a two-year-old rape victim on Saturday. The Eastern Cape health department’s…