University of Fort Hare vice-chancellor Professor Sakhela Buhlungu has been moved to a “safe location” after his bodyguard was gunned down outside the VC's home in Dikeni, formerly Alice, on Friday night. The shooting was confirmed by university spokesperson JP Roodt. The bodyguard was in Buhlungu's vehicle when the incident happened.
The distraught family of an Eastern Cape nurse who was dragged out of her ward on Christmas Day by two armed men and shot dead, is demanding answers as to how her killers had gained easy access to the hospital.
Mthatha’s main gravesite, known as Sutton Cemetery or KwaSeteni, near the Mbuqe Park residential area about 5km outside town, has turned into an eyesore, with some of the graves covered in grass and weeds.