Eastern Cape traditional leaders have appealed to President Cyril Ramaphosa to speedily sign into law the traditional courts bill to help them fight gender-based violence and botched circumcisions in rural areas.
Community leaders, irrespective of political affiliation, should come together and fight the effects of poverty to avoid a recurrence of a tragedy when an Eastern Cape mother, too poor to feed her children, killed her three children before taking her own life. . amaXhosa King Ahlangene Vulikhaya Sigcawu’s spokesperson Nkosi Ndabele Bangisizwe Mtoto and ANC, DA, and Freedom Front Plus MPS addressed the issue at the handing-over of 40 tonnes of rice by the Taipei Liaison Office in Cape To.
Thousands of households in water-stressed areas of the Eastern Cape are set to benefit from a water provisioning initiative by the Amatola Water Board. The programme will benefit 120,000 households a day who live in rural parts of the province. In a bid to ensure water security in rural areas, the state-owned water utility is appointing service providers to supply, deliver and install 600 rainwater tanks to the Eastern Cape’s six kingdom palaces.