Subscribe
Daily DispatchDaily Dispatch
Subscribe

SACP

In the news
Vehicles trapped on the road at Mqanduli.
FLOODS

Flooding cuts off towns and disrupts services across OR Tambo district

Heavy rains have cut off access to towns such as Mqanduli and disrupted services across the Eastern Cape's OR Tambo District, leaving communities isolated as disaster teams assess the damage.

  • Lulamile Feni
As millions are expected to cast their votes come November 4, villagers in Mfabantu village in Tsolo will be going about their business and boycotting the elections due to ward delimitation. No one in the village registered to vote.
ELECTIONS
Premium

Villagers refuse to vote due to ward transfer

Residents of Mfabantu village in Tsolo have resolved to boycott the upcoming elections following an unconsulted municipal boundary change. The community fears the reallocation from Ward 8 to Ward 24 will worsen already poor service…

  • Ziyanda Zweni
Nelson Mandela's relative and great-grandson and neighbour Xolani Mandela, is a UDM Ward 19 candidate, which includes Qunu in the Mthatha-based King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality. The ANC has no candidate in the Mandela village where he lies buried. Pictures LULAMILE FENI
ELECTIONS
Premium

ANC fails to field candidate in ward where Mandela grew up and is buried

For the first time since 1994, the ANC will not field a candidate in Ward 19 of the King Sabata Dalindyebo municipality, which encompasses Nelson Mandela's home village of Qunu.

  • Lulamile Feni
Mbhashe Ward 10 councillor Ernest Fipaza was shot dead at his home on Friday night. Picture Supplied
CRIME
Premium

ANC councillor and SACP candidate shot dead at home in Dutywa

Eastern Cape ward councillor Ernest Fipaza has been shot dead at his Dutywa home ahead of the municipal elections. Fipaza, an ANC councillor who was set to contest the ward under the SACP banner, was killed in front of his family.

  • Lulamile Feni