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East London’s crime-fighting forum has rejected the Eastern Cape government’s criteria for employing community patrollers who will receive stipends for the next two years to fight crime in Buffalo City. This is despite community safety and transport MEC Xolile Nqatha announcing that the government intends to hire 600 community patrollers by integrating members of the community policing forums.

Build One SA leader Mmusi Maimane has revealed seven organisations have joined his party to contest next month’s elections as the Bosa Alliance.

Under-fire King Sabata Dalindyebo municipal bosses have admitted that 50% of the buildings in Mthatha were not compliant with health and safety regulations and standards. And despite several buildings going up in smoke under mysterious circumstances since 2021, the municipality has also admitted it does not have a bylaw on fire prevention.

Water and sanitation minister Senzo Mchunu has given Nelson Mandela Bay a cautious vote of approval for not dropping the ball since the end of the eight-year regional drought in September.

In a bid to ignite economic activities in Mthatha and surrounding areas, the Eastern Cape government has announced it is forging ahead with the establishment of a Wild Coast special economic zone.

Premier Oscar Mabuyane has boldly announced five key economic projects that a new administration will focus on in the next five years to ignite economic growth and create jobs.Though the beginning of his state of the province address to more than 1,700 guests at the Christian Centre in Abbotsford, East London, on Thursday was disrupted by EFF MPLs, he was unfazed, telling guests he would return to office as premier for a second term after the May 29 elections.

Bafana Bafana’s lukewarm reception at OR Tambo international airport yesterday was further proof that no matter what they achieve, our national football team will not convince certain South Africans to back them.

The Eastern Cape Human Rights Commission has been forced to subpoena officials from the OR Tambo district municipality and Transnet to an inquiry into the state of the province’s roads, after Transnet and municipal officials were no-shows at a hearing in November.The representatives were forced to appear before the commission in East London on Monday.

The DA has written to premier Oscar Mabuyane asking for urgent intervention to repair rundownroads in the Eastern Cape. The official opposition wants Mabuyane to commit to shifting funds to urgently fix roads that lead to tourist destinations and farming communities.

After unfulfilled promises spanning decades, the construction of the multibillion-rand Umzimvubu Water Project is well under way, with the first phase of the work more than 80% complete. But residents of the OR Tambo, Alfred Nzo and Joe Gqabi district municipalities will have to wait for about six years before they can access water from the project.