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Tribute to century of Dower College
PAST MASTER: Cricket ref Dev Govindjee is an ex-Dower College lecturer. Picture: MIKE HOLMES Proud heritage of teacher training FROM the turn of the last century, generations of teachers received...
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Council contract workers in protest for permanent jobs
HELP US: Protesters who are employed either part-time or by outsourcing companies hold placards and chant slogans across from the Wool Exchange building in Military Road to back their call for help...
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G’town centre given reprieve
SECOND CHANCE: The Makana council has decided against seeking a demolition order for Makhanda Mall in Beaufort Street. Picture: FREDLIN ADRIAAN Makhanda Mall escapes demolition after municipal legal...
View ArticleDA confident of ConCourt victory on Nkandla
The Democratic Alliance (DA) was confident it will be celebrating a victory outside the Constitutional Court today( 31/03/2016). The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) will pass comment on the court’s...
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Tiny wonder found at Port of Ngqura
THUMBS UP: The African pygmy mouse. Picture: EUGENE COETZEE THEY are so small that they often go unnoticed and hardly ever trigger traps, but a Port Elizabeth conservationist has managed to catch one...
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Farm schools fight goes to court
MEC Mandla Makupula (Education) and Angie Motshekga (Minister of Basic Education). Picture:BRIAN WITBOOI Parents and governing bodies seek order for Bhisho to follow proper procedures FOUR farm...
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Mom abandons baby at hospital
Matron Amelia Horne with the abandoned baby girl. Picture: BRIAN WITBOOI DORA Nginza Hospital social worker Pamela Rubushe is looking for the family of a baby girl admitted to hospital shortly after...
View ArticlePistorius’ sentencing postponed to June – reports
The sentencing of former Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius has been postponed to June‚ according to reports. The National Prosecuting Authority and Pistorius’ lawyers could not be reached for...
View ArticleBail for laser light flasher
Man arrested after shining beam at helicopter A PORT Elizabeth man was released on R1 000 bail after he was arrested for allegedly shining a laser light at a hovering police helicopter. This marks one...
View ArticleJUST IN: EC Samwu chairman expelled
Eastern Cape chairman of Samwu, David Toyis, has been expelled by the union due to alleged ill-discipline and for allegedly sowing divisions within the union structures. He is also accused by the union...
View ArticleWATCH LIVE: Judgment day for Nkandla at ConCourt
A little more than a month after the Constitutional Court heard arguments in the EFF and DA’s application for an order that President Jacob Zuma repay some of the R246 million spent on his Nkandla...
View ArticlePoliticians‚ deputy public protector in court for Nkandla judgment
Members of the public started filling up the public gallery of the Constitutional Court from 9am on Thursday ahead of the court’s judgment in the Nkandla case. The court will start delivering its...
View ArticleKimberley man arrested for allegedly impregnating 11-year-old
A man has been arrested in Galeshewe for allegedly raping and impregnating his girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter, Northern Cape police said on Thursday. The girl alleged that the 32-year-old man, who...
View ArticleNkandla judgment: Separation of powers crucial to democracy
Chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng started delivering his judgment in the Nkandla case in the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg just after 10am on Thursday. The chief justice said the judgment‚ which he...
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Public protector is public’s David against state Goliath: Mogoeng
Chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng delivers the ConCourt Nkandla judgement.Picture: SABC Digital Youtube Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng on Thursday said the public protector is the “embodiment of a biblical...
View ArticleZuma ‘acted illegally’: ConCourt
President Jacob Zuma acted illegally when he failed to comply with the remedial action set by the public protector. This was the pronouncement on Thursday by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng‚ delivering...
View ArticleMaimane: DA already started impeachment process against Zuma
“If I was President Jacob Zuma‚ I would be preparing my letter of resignation.” That’s how DA leader Mmusi Maimane reacted after the “Constitutional Court – the highest court in the land – found that...
View ArticleYou won’t take us backwards‚ De Lille tells protesters
CAPE Town mayor Patricia de Lille hit out on Thursday at violence and vandalism by “those with political agendas who wish to destroy”. In her speech at the start of a city council meeting‚ De Lille...
View ArticleANC must learn from outcome of Nkandla judgment – Lekota
Congress of the People leader Mosiuoa Lekota has said the ANC must learn that they cannot use their majority in Parliament to make provisions that are inconsistent with the country’s Constitution. “It...
View ArticleJUST IN: Suspected PE gang members sentenced
Suspected senior members of the Upstand Dogs gang Cedric Johnson, Rodwell “Boef” Peters and Oscar Alexander have each been sentenced to an effective 25 years in prison by the Port Elizabeth High Court...
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