A long-distance runner will have to write off his 29th Comrades Marathon later this month after being shot in both legs and the shoulder in a brutal hijacking in Duncan Village.
More than 100 pupils from a rural school in Mpeko village outside Mthatha were rushed to hospital on Tuesday and Wednesday after consuming a powder apparently used to make ginger beer.
A shortage of ambulances, a lack of qualified personnel to run them, and a dwindling fleet budget are some of the crippling challenges faced by emergency medical services in the Eastern Cape.