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Own goal: The spread of Covid-19 in the Eastern Cape has been exacerbated because a number of people are disobeying the lockdown regulations. (Delwyn Verasamy)

Behind the Covid-19 spiral in the Eastern Cape

‘Port St Johns and Port Elizabeth funerals are the cause of rising numbers,’ says the department of health

Obligation: Bishop Mthobeli Matyumza is spreading the gospel via WhatsApp readings and prayers

Worship during lockdown – in a different way

The bishop uses WhatsApp to share scripture readings, and prayers and comments with all his congregants during the lockdown

It may be that the most important lesson this pandemic has to teach us is that we don’t control nearly as many things as we like to think we do.

Quiet contemplation this Easter

From church services over WhatsApp to eating with family and listening to chilled music over Instagram, South Africa is going to have a very different long weekend, grounded in…

Dozens of Eastern Cape residents supported Chief Mehlomakhulu and called on MPs enact legislation that would transfer the land back to tribal authorities. (Govan Whittles/M&G)

‘What about 1908, 1872?’ Land committee asked to recognise colonial dispossession

The constitutional review committee is only investigating the dispossession of land since the adoption of the Native Land Act in 1913

The Facebook data breach involving the UK political consultancy

Investigations into Ngcobo killings lead to further arrests, charges for crimes

One off-duty soldier and five police offieres were killed when a group of men attacked the Ngcobo police station

Police nab burglar in ‘first Facebook arrest’

New Zealand police have arrested a burglar by using the popular social networking website Facebook to identify and track him down.

Vettori, McCullum lead NZ rout of Bangladesh

Daniel Vettori and Brendon McCullum put in record performances as New Zealand thrashed Bangladesh by 10 wickets with 44 overs to spare in a one-day international on Monday.…

Desertification a ‘significant problem for SA’

Desertification is the ”terrible twin evil” of climate change, Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Rejoice Mabudafhasi said in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday.…

Initiate dies in Queenstown

A 23-year-old man has died while attending a school offering circumcision rituals illegally, the Eastern Cape health department said on Tuesday. The man died of dehydration at…

42-year-old initiate dies in the Eastern Cape

A 42-year-old initiate has died at his circumcision lodge (ibhuma) at Mbosweni locality in Herschel, bringing to six the number who have died in the province since the start of…

Bodies of young sisters found in the Eastern Cape

The bodies of two young sisters have been recovered from the Crocodile River near Rhodes after their family’s 4×4 vehicle was swept off a bridge on Sunday morning.

Nurses charged with being accomplices to rape

The SA Nursing Council has started a two-day hearing into the professional conduct of three Komani Hospital psychiatric nurses, accused of helping male patients to rape female…

Cops crack Tshatshalaza kangaroo court

Sixteen people, allegedly part of a kangaroo court in Msobomvu near Butterworth, were arrested on Friday, Eastern Cape police said.

Acting mayor may have ran kangaroo court

The acting mayor of Mnquma in the Eastern Cape and 17 co-accused has appeared in the Butterworth Magistrate’s Court on charges of allegedly running a kangaroo court.