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Civic organisation Komani Protest Action (KPA), which has been critical of the Enoch Mgijima local municipality’s service delivery failures and is pushing for its dissolution, is taking the battle to the polls. Fed-up with the status quo, the organisation is preparing to contest the May 29 provincial election.

Several trees along Milner Avenue in front of the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium have been stripped of their bark, a practice often attributed to traditional healers.

The shutdown of Eastern Cape roads by taxi operators over four-month payment delays for scholar transport services, which caused chaos in the province yesterday, has been suspended. This after a meeting in East London between taxi council leaders and provincial transport leaders, including Oscar Mabuyane who is said to have joined telephonically.

Protesting Nompumelelo residents placed four flaming barricades across the road in front of Beacon Bay crossing at 4am on Friday, disrupting early morning traffic. Witnesses said about 100 Nompumelelo residents had stopped traffic during a protest over a lack of service delivery and the slow progress of phase two RDP housing developments.

Publishing her first book in March 2024, East London-born former English teacher, academic and now author Kara Schultz, 35, couldn’t be happier with her novel’s recent success. Schultz has been awarded a highly coveted Kirkus Star by New York literary review magazine Kirkus Reviews for The Assays of Ata, the first instalment of her fantasy trilogy, The Chronicles of Áitarbith.

Ward councillor Nwabisa Mcwabeni condemned protest action by residents of Nompumelelo in Beacon Bay on Friday, alleging that efforts to bring services to the community had been “sabotaged”. A crowd of about 100 protesters took to the streets early on Friday morning, placing four flaming barricades across the Bonza Bay Road near the entrance to the township.

Former president Jacob Zuma has counter-applied to the Constitutional Court for the recusal of five of its justices in his battle with the Electoral Commission (IEC) over whether he is eligible to stand for parliament.

From a YouTube show to plenty of sets lined up, it is becoming a busy year for funnyman Gino Fabbri, who can secretly hop on one stilt ... Q: What can we expect from you this year? A: Plenty of comedy shows and music to add to the fab people I am interviewing on my podcast, Gino’s Spot, every Tuesday at 6.

The Eastern Cape health department has instituted legal proceedings against its spokesperson, Sizwe Kupelo, after scrapping benefits he had been enjoying for performing the duties of a spin doctor for various health MECs between 2009 and 2019, with the department launching a bid to rescind its earlier decision.

Ntate Sam Motsuenyane's life should spur us to be honest in our choices about who deserves to lead us, writes Lucky Mathebula