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While born and bred in the Eastern Cape, Gqeberha resident Di Luden has spent most of her working life overseas but as they say, home is where the heart is.

A young Algoa Park activist has called for meaningful youth involvement in strategic platforms on broad societal issues as SA marked 30 years of democracy at the weekend.

With the Eastern Cape hit almost weekly by protests over service delivery, premier Oscar Mabuyane reflected at the weekend on three decades of democracy, calling for people to be optimistic. Irate residents have taken to the streets across the province over grievances such as a lack of clean drinking water, proper schools and roads, unemployment, electricity, crime and corruption.

A blind Eastern Cape father and former teacher who lost his eyesight in a freak accident when a brick fell on his head in a classroom is on a quest to help other people who are blind. Zukisa Kenneth Skoti, 51, of Ethembeni village in Qonce, understands that having to adapt to losing one’s eyesight is traumatic.

The SA Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) says the expropriation bill is unconstitutional, and has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa not to sign it into law.

The chaotic scenes which played out at the City Hall last week when hundreds of people pitched up to apply for a few Expanded Public Works Programme jobs are indicative of the desperation of the large numbers of unemployed in the country.

A court has heard how five people, accused of murdering two elderly women at a retirement village, can no longer stomach the brown bread, soup and tea served to them at court while standing trial.

The Small Arms Survey has calculated that South Africa is ranked tenth globally in terms of licensed firearm ownership

Dangling such vital services as election bait paints a damning picture of self-serving politics.

Nelson Mandela Bay GOOD councillor Lawrence Troon has been ordered to cough up R130,000 for defaming EFF councillor Khanya Ngqisha, whom he accused of trying to solicit a R1m bribe from Hive Hydrogen.