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A senior Eastern Cape government official accused of bribing National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) investigators to drop an investigation into a questionable R69-million police tender will stand trial in January next year.

University of Fort Hare students who were arrested after a fire damaged a campus building on Sunday night are worried that they will fail exams, which started on Monday, due to their incarceration.



A senior Eastern Cape education department official, his wife and another man appeared in court in connection with a R4m school personal protective equipment fraud, corruption and money laundering case.

Willowvale’s top-performing school, Xolilizwe Senior Secondary in Nqadu, has asked its pupils to bring drug and pregnancy test results with them when schools open on January 19. The message to pupils was circulated via the school’s Facebook page on Monday, but pupils say they were made aware of the decision late last year.

The South African government needs to do more to combat rhino poaching and other environmental crimes - this was the call made by the MEC of local economic development and finance in the Eastern Cape Mlungisi Mvoko.