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A heatwave had engulfed Tsitsikamma Village all day but late that afternoon, as if someone had clicked a switch, a gale erupted, bending trees nearly double, whooshing through a champagne draft of cool damp air and throwing up a space station of white cloud against the pitch black western horizon, just visible from the tranquil courtyard of the village inn.

The generator at Kareedouw Hospital in the Eastern Cape has been broken for several weeks, leaving the hospital without backup power during loadshedding. But the Eastern Cape Department of Health says this is not important.

Kareedouw Hospital has no backup generator during rolling blackouts.

Fifteen intrepid Gqeberha riders cycled from Nelson Mandela Bay to Plettenberg Bay on Saturday to raise funds to buy sanitary pads for schoolgirls at three underprivileged schools in Walmer Township.

A round-up of go-to events around the country this summer.

Kickstart your year on a high note with this list of the best places to travel in January for sun or winter activities.

The search-and-rescue team trying to retrieve a body below the Bloukrans Bridge in Tsitsikamma had to pull back on Wednesday due to severe weather conditions.

Engineers to be paid directly to finish multi-million-rand infrastructure projects.

Abandoned infrastructure projects funded by the National Lotteries Commission, including four old-age homes and a drug rehabilitation centre, will finally be completed, years after tens of millions of rands intended for their construction were looted.



The National Lotteries Commission has allocated nearly R65-million to finish Lottery-funded projects where millions of rands were looted.