R25-million and 7 years later, Indwe sports field far from finished

It was meant to take 18 months, and now another R10-million is needed

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Brief | 25 July 2025

Gqeberha ward councillor leads protest for services in Soweto-on-Sea

Demonstrators led by ANC Councillor Xolile Vingqi blocked entry to the municipal Lillian Diedericks Building

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Brief | 23 July 2025

Community blames poor policing after brutal murders

Residents say they’ve been forced to stand outside the police station and give statements to an officer because the gates are locked at night

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News | 23 July 2025

After five months, silence on murder of Imam Muhsin Hendricks

Hendricks, who was openly gay, was gunned down in Gqeberha in February

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Brief | 23 July 2025

People have to relieve themselves in open fields in this Eastern Cape town

Centane does not have enough working public toilets

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News | 19 July 2025

Eastern Cape game reserves challenge wind farm approval in court

Game park owners and environmentalists say turbines will spoil scenic landscapes, damage tourism and threaten endangered birds

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News | 17 July 2025

Protesters throw human waste outside clinic and torch vehicles

Residents of Wells Estate in Gqeberha are upset because electricity boxes that were due to be installed last year have not been delivered

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Brief | 16 July 2025

“A grave would be better than my shack”, says Kariega resident

Shack dwellers still don’t have houses after years of promises

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Brief | 10 July 2025

Two boys drown at abandoned sewer project

Oxidation ponds in Centane, Eastern Cape, were abandoned 25 years ago after objections by the traditional authority and local residents

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Brief | 9 July 2025

Still no homes for families moved during pandemic

Gqeberha temporary accommodation leaky and cold

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Brief | 9 July 2025

No water to put out fire: man dies

Neighbours in Makhanda say they could not save Thandisizwe Nondlwana when his house caught alight

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Brief | 2 July 2025

R10-million emergency lottery funding for flood-ravaged Eastern Cape

The money was approved swiftly using a new funding mechanism that replaced one that had been mired in corruption

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Brief | 29 June 2025

Parents vow to keep children out of school after murder of learner

Demand for scholar transport after 13-year-old Anga Ndema was killed on her way back from school

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News | 26 June 2025

Violent scenes in Engcobo on second day of SANCO “shutdown”

Nasty scuffle breaks out between Spar owner and protesters

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Brief | 25 June 2025

SANCO and ANC clash in Eastern Cape

Protestors gathered at Ngcobo’s municipal offices, despite a court order

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News | 24 June 2025

South Africans and Zimbabweans pray together after xenophobic attacks

Mob in Addo killed four, injured dozens, and displaced hundreds of families

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News | 24 June 2025