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While Buffalo City residents may have won the recent Bhisho high court battle with the metro over its “basic charge” to be added to its electricity tariffs, the fight is far from over. The judgment will be put on hold as the city is set to appeal.

Buffalo City Metro residents are rolling up their sleeves to transform their neighbourhoods, taking on cleaning and maintenance work themselves in a grassroots effort to restore pride and order to the city.

Metro approves payment to restore ‘harmonious relations’ after bitter strike

The Buffalo City Metro BCM council has approved a set of debt relief measures aimed at easing the financial burden of retired and elderly citizens who continue to face economic challenges.

Mdantsane-born Thobane Vumindaba founded Labtronic Solutions, transforming it into a multimedia studio that amplifies local voices.

Scores of cleaners scrubbing the floor, cleaning the bathrooms and ensuring the courts in East London are squeaky clean have been left in limbo, having not been paid their salaries for three months and counting.

Seasoned public sector executive Lulama Mbobo-Vava stepped in as interim CEO at the ECDC last week.

Military veterans on coastal protection duties in the Buffalo City Metro (BCM) region say they have not been paid for four months.

Three people were shot during a cash-in transit heist in Southern Wood Spar on Monday morning

Beacon Bay resident Jessica Macdonald, her toddler Maia and their one-eyed rescue dog Dobby have been handing out food and drink to those in need during their weekly morning walks during lockdown. The East London family  has dubbed themselves “Herbie’s Helping Hand” because two-year-old Maia owns a VW Beetle pedal car replica of the one made famous by the Herbie movies.

Stray animals crossing national roads are a major concern in the Eastern Cape. Drivers blame livestock owners and the provincial department for not doing enough to prevent the animals from straying on to the roads. Cows, dogs and donkeys are a common sight on the N2 towards East London.

Buffalo City motorists unknowingly drove through putrid animal remains, flicking it onto their mudguards and tracking hazardous bacteria through the metro on Friday. The Dispatch investigated after fielding a call from an upset member of the public. The stinking trail ran from the Highgate subway to the N2 on-ramp near Cambridge Police Park.

Police in Buffalo City stand accused of unleashing an almost nightly ritual of harassment and abuse on owners, staff and patrons of eateries, pubs and nightclubs across the metro, based on what appears to be the police hierarchy’s misunderstanding of the metro’s bylaw on liquor trading hours.

Makhanda optometrist Dr Trevor Davies and an employee, Sivuyile Kewuti, have ignited huge excitement in the city with a novel new home they built using plastic bottles as bricks. The fantastic plastic house in eNkanini has taken social media by storm and done exactly what Davies intended: It has sparked curiosity, wonder and a desire to emulate and improve on the ideas he and Kewuti incorporated into the house with its unusual “eco-bricks”.

Controversy surrounds the multimillion rand fibreoptic network installation in Buffalo City, with workers complaining about disparities in wage rates and main contractor Telelanga Trading alleging that some workers have threatened violence against the company. The claims have swirled around Telelanga’s sites across the city, and escalated when Telelanga sought and was awarded an urgent interdict by the East London high court late last week blocking workers from co...