Voters got off to an early start across the province on Wednesday, with some enthusiastic South Africans already queued up at their voting stations in the Eastern Cape as early as 5am, two hours before stations officially opened.
Forensic pathology officers based at the state morgue in Mthatha, who sometimes have to fetch dead bodies from crime and accident scenes, allegedly have to conduct postmortems themselves, instead of calling on professional doctors to do the job.
With campaigning gaining momentum before the hotly contested May 29 election, two political parties in the Eastern Cape have ruffled the feathers of taxi bosses after reportedly failing to cough up for ferrying members to their rallies. The EFF and uMkhonto weSizwe are entangled in pay disputes which have left operators frustrated.
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The Eastern Cape Department of Health was racing on Monday to set up alternative lines for the province’s emergency services ahead of the Easter weekend.
Water and sanitation minister Senzo Mchunu has given Nelson Mandela Bay a cautious vote of approval for not dropping the ball since the end of the eight-year regional drought in September.