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King Sabata Dalindyebo (KSD) Local Municipality executive mayor, Nyaniso Nelani ,has expressed concern at the mass murders taking place in the Bityi policing precinct, saying this had the potential to derail their aspirations for a metropolitan municipality status in 2026.

Nyandeni Local Municipality has reached an agreement with residents of Zolani Village over service delivery challenges in the area – which saw residents’ protest action blockade the busy R61, on January 26.

The Auditor General South Africa (AGSA) has given the OR Tambo District Municipality (ORTDM) a qualified audit opinion for the 2021/2022 financial year.

THE Eastern Cape Department of Transport has confirmed that all the outstanding scholar transport operators’ payments, where invoices were submitted and verified by January 24, have been paid last week as promised.

The Mthatha High Court has sentenced former Department of Education subject advisor, Louis Pepping (58) to life imprisonment for raping a six-year-old girl.

Police have launched a manhunt after seven people were shot and killed in Qunu, outside Mthatha, last night.

The Eastern Cape Department of Health has bestowed service excellence awards on employees who set themselves apart by going the extra mile in the execution of their duties during the 2022/2023 financial year.

Walter Sisulu University (WSU) academic, Dr Jongikhaya Mvenene, recently published a book on a case study he conducted on apartheid industrial decentralisation and democratic de-industrialisation, based in the Butterworth region.

The General Secretary for the National NPO Congress (NANPOC), Nomfundo Jajula, has confirmed that they would try to help Mditshwa Technical High School in Mthatha, as it does not have enough equipment.

Dutywa-based Mbhashe Local Municipality says it’s planning to use heritage conservation, and tourism development, to unlock economic activity that will create job opportunities for many in its jurisdiction that are currently unemployed.