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It might not have been under ideal conditions, but Ntombizine Mtengwane was happy when she and her family were moved to temporary houses by authorities after a violent altercation between Mthatha’s Tipini residents and the Waterfall township community in 2012. This was after thousands of Tipini residents, who had turned an old dumpsite into a thriving shack-dwelling community, were accused by their neighbours of harbouring dangerous criminals.

Millions of rand of public money and the management of a municipal pension fund scheme are at the centre of an impending clash in the Makhanda high court.

Various factors have resulted in more than 57,000 “possible dropouts” over the course of a year in the Eastern Cape schooling system — a sobering figure that has come to light as pupils across the province prepare for their mid-year examinations.

If the Proteas can ditch the nervous jitters that routinely accompany them to major cricket tournaments, they have firepower needed to lift the coveted T20 World Cup trophy in Barbados on June 29.

Though the surviving victims of Sonwabo Xola’s jealous and murderous rage believe they can finally sleep peacefully knowing he is behind bars with no option of parole, they are haunted by the mental scars from their encounters with him.