A payment dispute between Quality Filtration Systems and Ndlambe Municipality has led to the closure of a desalination plant in Port Alfred, and the town’s residents are bearing the brunt of it.
The Khula Community Development Project, represented by the Legal Resources Centre, successfully took the Eastern Cape Department of Education to court to ensure the delivery of textbooks and stationery by at least 31 March 2022 – well into the academic year.
Judgment looms on Grahamstown-Makhanda appeal
April 30, 2021NEWS
As the Grahamstown-Makhanda name-change case ratcheted up in the town’s high court this week, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa was described as arrogant in his ignorance of historical and material facts; the name-change objectors as obsessive in the face of the country’s laws and Constitution.
Judgment was reserved in the appeal this week against Mthethwa’s decision to approve the renaming of Grahamstown to Makhanda. The appeal was heard by a full bench on Monday 26 April.
In June 2018, Mthethwa’s decision to change the name of Grahamstown to Makhanda was gazetted.