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HIV-positive serial rapist given multiple life sentences

An Eastern Cape HIV-positive serial rapist has been sentenced to eight life terms for raping eight young women, four of them schoolgirls. He was also convicted of seven ...

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Taxi strike forces many Eastern Cape clinics to close, hampers ...

The Eastern Cape health department has been hit hard by the taxi operators' strike over scholar transport payment delays, with many clinics forced ...

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BREAKING | Taxi strike over but still no transport for EC pupils

Despite the suspension of the complete shutdown, provincial transport officials and taxi bosses were unable to come to an agreement over outstanding ...

Sport

Upbeat Border Ladies on mission to avenge ...

Border Ladies go into their Women’s Premier Division match against Boland Dames with a two-pronged mission — to avenge their men’s team’s (Bulldogs) defeat a week ago and continue with their good start to the national competition.  Border take ...
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Tributes flow after death of defence attaché Gogi ...

Strict, loving, goal-orientated and stern were among the words that best described Rear Admiral Nomonde Gogi who died on April 15 in Belgium while serving as SA's defence attaché in that country. She was 56.
School News

Mdantsane wheelchair tennis star prepares to jet off to Turkey

An 18-year-old wheelchair tennis player is carrying the hopes of Vukuhambe Special School in Mdantsane as he ...

Sport

Swallows stun Chippa at Buffalo City Stadium

A late goal from Lwanda Mbanjwa left Chippa United fans stunned at the Buffalo City Stadium as Swallows claimed a 2-1 ...

Entertainment

Wind down with The Hyacinth Wild in EL this Friday

Alt-rock folk band The Hyacinth Wild have been tripping across the Eastern Cape, performing intimate shows in ...

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Court battle over Sizwe Kupelo benefits

The Eastern Cape health department has instituted legal proceedings against its spokesperson, Sizwe Kupelo, after ...

School News

Queen’s College holds reunion in 166th year

In a heartwarming display of camaraderie and nostalgia, more than a hundred former pupils of Queen’s College ...

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Livestock owners tell of chilling threats

“If you are a daredevil, first dig your own grave, then come out and dare to fight us. You will see who will be the ...

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Eastern Cape doctors in overtime row

Doctors across the Eastern Cape are due to lose one third of their salaries after a dispute with the Department of ...

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BREAKING | East London schools to close amid scholar transport shutdown threat

Several East London schools will shut their doors on Thursday in anticipation of the planned shutdown by scholar ...

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Plea to scholar transport operators to reconsider strike

The Eastern Cape transport department on Wednesday evening pleaded with angry Eastern Cape scholar operators to ...

Sport

Rugby prop ‘stripped naked during Kariega bottle store rampage’

Chaotic scenes unfolded at a Kariega bottle store when a well-known rugby player allegedly knocked bottles of liquor ...