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Several senior Eastern Cape ANC MPLs will not return to the legislature after being left off the party’s provincial candidate list for the 2024 general election. The IEC released the final candidate lists for parliament and the nine provincial legislatures on Wednesday. Seasoned politicians who did not make the cut include former health MEC Sindiswa Gomba, standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) provincial chair Mxolisi Dimaza, transport portfolio committee chair Xolani Malamlela and ...

The Eastern Cape education department has been heavily criticised by the provincial legislature for irregular and unauthorised expenditure since 2015, totaling R2.4 bn and flagged by the Auditor-General.

Standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) provincial chair Mxolisi Dimaza said officials from the provincial departments of health and education needed to be “disciplined and taught a lesson” for unauthorised expenditure running into billions of rand. Scopa findings, which were released in Bhisho on Tuesday, into the financial affairs of the two departments revealed they had incurred unauthorised expenditure of R1bn each, during the 2020-2021 financial year.

The Bhisho legislature recently raised concerns that, in almost three decades of South African democracy, there were still some health facilities in rural parts of the Eastern Cape that operated in inappropriate and hazardous structures, with elements of mud construction.

New Eastern Cape health MEC must step up to ‘historic challenges’ PREMIUM By Asanda Nini - 26 February 2021 A cabinet reshuffle is on the cards for the Eastern Cape government, with the province set to welcome a new health MEC by the end of next week... This article is reserved for DispatchLIVE subscribers. Get access to ALL DispatchLIVE content from only R45.00 per month. Already subscribed? Simply sign in below. Already registered on HeraldLIVE, BusinessLIVE, TimesLIVE or...

Some leaders in the Eastern Cape say the temporary suspension of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine rollout “has come as a blessing in disguise for the province”.  With the much anticipated first batch of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine delivered to South Africa last week, provinces have been gearing up to start vaccinating people as soon as next week. But on Sunday evening Minister of Health Dr Zweli Mkhize announced that the rollout of this vaccine to the country’s hea...

Some leaders in the Eastern Cape say the temporary suspension of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine roll-out “has come as a blessing in disguise for the province”. With the much anticipated first batch of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine delivered to South Africa last week, provinces have been gearing up to start vaccinating people as soon as next week. But on Sunday evening Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize announced that the roll-out of this vaccine to the country’s healt...

The shortcomings in healthcare services in the rural Eastern Cape is well documented. Now, with provinces gearing up for the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out, Spotlight asked health activists and government leaders about the plan for villages in the province.

False overtime claims cost East Cape health department R60m R481m also spent on medico legal cases in 2020, says Dimaza PREMIUM Nomazima Nkosi Senior council reporter 04 February 2021 Emergency medical services workers in the Eastern Cape are milking the health department dry by submitting fraudulent overtime claims, with more than R60m forked out in 2020. This is according to the health department’s half-year financial oversight report which was tabled at the legislature by...

The national health department will be investigating the Eastern Cape government's Covid-19 death statistics reporting after 452 deaths recorded “on Wednesday” were found to be the result of a so-called “data reconciliation” of deaths from last year. Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said some of the data announced on Wednesday — suggesting the highest daily toll ever — had effectively been inflated with the addition of a “backlog” of deaths recorded between May and November 20...