Mount Ruth News Today

The Buffalo City Metro has filled nearly 7,000 potholes in five months, mayor Princess Faku said on Monday.In September, Faku launched Operation Valazonke Programme — a drive aimed at fixing potholes across the metro.

EDITORIAL | The high cost of quality healthcare and its stark contrast with the appalling quality of public healthcare in the Eastern Cape leaves one feeling helpless and hopeless.Over the years, we have reported on many harrowing experiences of patients at public clinics and hospitals.

Hundreds of Eastern Cape residents who flocked to the Mount Ruth railway station in Mdantsane for the affordable health services of the highly regarded Transnet Phelophepa II train this week have been left in the lurch after it failed to pitch up.The residents, mainly elderly and sick people, have had to brave the chilly nights and sleep at the station to ensure that they keep their positions in the queue.

At least two fatalities were confirmed in the Eastern Cape by Buffalo City Metro after gale force winds at the weekend.

Three initiates were burnt to death at their grass initiation hut (ibhoma) in Mdantsane on Tuesday.