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Disgruntled Port St Johns residents blockaded the main route linking the coastal town to Lusikisiki and Mthatha on Wednesday, demanding mayor Nomvuzo Mlombile-Cingo and two other councillors resign. The protest came after PSJ council chief whip Mxolisi Moni’s home was burnt and his nephew shot and wounded by unknown people on Sunday.
Co-operative governance MEC Zolile Williams has called for urgent police intervention after a spate of attacks on councillors in the province, with the latest incident on Sunday leaving a Port St Johns councillor’s nephew wounded. Williams said his proposed meeting with provincial police commissioner Lt-Gen Nomthetheleli Mene this week would discuss a “responsive security plan to deal with this growing trend of violence against elected public officials at local government level, especi...
Two young people are missing, presumed drowned, and woman was injured when a wall of her house fell on her in the Eastern Cape following the torrential rains and disastrous floods that hit the province and KwaZulu-Natal. Of the two youngsters who are missing, one is a 10-year-old boy from Port St Johns.