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A COURT decision yesterday to deny Jacob Zuma’s application to be discharged on a rape count is a fresh blow for the former deputy president, who still faces a high-profile corruption trial later this year that could pound the final nail into the coffin of his political career....more
SIMMERING political tensions over the new Sunday’s River Valley council erupted yesterday when angry Kirkwood residents held the mayor and her councillors hostage for five hours....more
MORE than 100 residents of Nceba Faku Village, near Booysen Park, set up road blockades with burning tyres yesterday in protest against poor workmanship on their low-cost RDP houses....more
SIX municipalities in the Eastern Cape still do not have mayors – two weeks after the expiry of the 14-day deadline by which every municipality should have been legally constituted....more
THE board of the Eastern Cape Development Corporation is likely to be replaced following the reallocation of political authority for the corporation from Economic Affairs, Environment and Tourism MEC Andre to Wet, to Finance MEC Billy Nel....more
THE Eastern Cape is ready to roll out its taxi recapitalisation programme as soon as motor manufacturers start producing taxis to meet the government’s safety specifications....more
THE Nelson Mandela Bay municipality is concerned with dropping water levels, and has launched a campaign to educate people about ways of saving water....more
THE Herald Greenacres Miss Port Elizabeth competition is hotting up ahead of next Friday’s much-awaited finale and tickets are selling fast....more
LIKE Madiba, world-renowned doctor Bongani Mayosi grew up herding his father’s cattle on the Transkei hills....more
STAFF at the department of social development nicknamed it Hollywood because “everyone there was acting”, a former head of department told the Pillay Commission of Inquiry into the finances of the Eastern Cape yesterday....more
THE Western Cape has the highest incidence of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in the world and prevalence in the Southern Cape is reaching alarming proportions....more
THE controversial guidelines for golf and polo estates in the Western Cape were necessary for the future sustainability of the province, Western Cape MEC for Environment, Planning and Economic Development Tasneem Essop said yesterday....more
THE George municipality has declared war on illegal taverns and to illustrate that they mean business, they have demolished a notorious shebeen in Rose Moore and have warned that more will follow....more
JEFFREYS Bay aquarium owner and wildlife trader John Visser is to resume exporting live sharks to Dubai despite the suspension of his export permit by the department of sea fisheries....more
REPAIRS to the sarcophagus of famous Eastern Cape author Olive Schreiner, on the summit of Buffelskop mountain near Cradock, have been completed by a restoration team from the National English Literary Museum (NELM) in Grahamstown under the leadership of Basil Mills....more
THE agency formed to relieve the social development department of the duty of distributing social grants in all provinces said yesterday it was ready to resume work in the Eastern Cape on April 1 even though it had not yet appointed a provincial head....more
A HIGH-POWERED delegation led by SA Rugby Union president Oregan Hoskins will visit Port Elizabeth tomorrow for a fact-finding mission into the state of the Southern Spears....more
Johannesburg – A 15-year-old boy has became the third victim in two weeks to be electrocuted while playing on trains, emergency management says....more
TWO teenagers, one of them 16, have been arrested in connection with the alleged rape of an American citizen who was jogging along Marine Drive at the weekend....more
THE George-based Southern Cape Organised Crime unit of the police yesterday announced the successful confiscation of the biggest haul of tik-tik (crystal methamphetamine) since the unit’s establishment....more
ST George’s Preparatory School in Central has opened its doors to four foreign pupils as part of its cultural exchange programme with a school in Europe....more
Johannesburg – Three Airports Company South Africa officials have been arrested for the multi-million-dollar heist at Johannesburg International Airport at the weekend....more
Cape Town – A register meant to list the names of abused, neglected and malnourished children to ensure they are monitored had not a single entry from the Eastern Cape, the National Assembly heard yesterday....more
SOUTH Africa’s longest- serving woman awaiting-trial prisoner, Julia Mashele, said yesterday she would not be suing the State for unlawfully keeping her in prison for nearly seven years in the 1990s....more
BOTH the National Intelligence Agency and the police are now investigating the allegations of sabotage at the Koeberg number one reactor....more
Cape Town – Conditions under which inmates are being held in South African prisons have shown “considerable improvement” over the past year, says Inspecting Judge of Prisons Johannes Fagan....more
Cape Town – Media reports that over a third of the R1,2-billion budgeted last year for the construction of four new prisons was “rechannelled” to other projects were inaccurate, Parliament’s correctional services portfolio committee heard yesterday....more news
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Court ruling may be one blow too many for Zuma
