An Eastern Cape attorney has graduated with an LLM (master of laws) from the renowned Harvard Law School.

Former petrol jockey Siphenkosi Nqoro, who bade farewell to his job at a local garage to pursue his dream of becoming a lawyer, has been sworn in as an attorney of the Makhanda high court. Nqoro, 33,...

Team in running for R1,4m prize

Twenty pupils from a top-achieving Eastern Cape rural school will not have to worry about their tuition for the year, thanks to Cala-born actress Ama Qamata.

Lindani Mzize, 26, a former taxi driver from Jali in Mbizana, beat the odds to graduate as a medical doctor.

Just seven years ago Lukhanyo Mafu was tending and pruning plants at the University of Fort Hare (UFH), where he was employed as a gardener, earning a meagre R50 a day.

The Eastern Cape's own brand of mealie meal, produced and processed at a small milling plant in Mqanduli, can now be found in several shops across the province.

Twenty-two people have been found dead at an East London nightclub. The horrific scene unfolded in the early hours of Sunday morning with frantic messages requesting police, metro and ambulance...

Thousands of degrees awarded by Walter Sisulu University (WSU) may be invalid. Graduates and current students have been studying courses that are not registered or accredited by the Council on Higher...

AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo has been campaigning hard for the EFF. On Sunday, the king met EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu at his home in Nkululekweni near Mthatha before addressing...

In an unprecedented move, Eastern Cape legislators have resolved that all colonial- and apartheid-era statues in the province be removed. The decision validates a motion tabled by the EFF in July, in...

A circulating video of Eastern Cape premier and ANC provincial chair, Oscar Mabuyane encouraging members at a party gathering to be nice to people ahead of the May 29 elections and shun them therea...

A University of Fort Hare student Thandolwethu Ngolo, 22, has gone missing.

Siphenkosi Nqoro, 29, who works as a petrol attendant at a Shell garage in Mdantsane, has completed his LLB at the University of Fort Hare.

An eight-year-old East London girl who missed two months of class at the beginning of the year after she was denied entry to a private college in Mdantsane due to her dreadlocks was named the top...

A Mthatha-born doctor has been added to the list of SA's neurosurgery specialists. When Dr Ndyebo Samkelo Mabovula was accepted at Walter Sisulu University to study medicine in 2007, he knew he was...

Eastern Cape actress Noxolo Maqashalala has died. She was 44. According to family friend Senyukele Zibobo, Maqashalala's body was found at her Honeydew home in Johannesburg on Friday. “I received a...

Two more private investigators have been hired to work with the police and well-known private investigator Noel Pratten as the search for missing UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana,19, intensifies.

Mdantsane-born Khanyisa Monqo has long been an advocate for the natural hair movement through online master classes. Earlier this year she turned that passion into a business

A 24-year-old Free State female doctor bit a man’s tongue so severely he required surgery, after he allegedly attempted to rape her at the hospital where she works.

The decision to rename Port Elizabeth and the airport was officially approved and gazetted by Sports, arts and Culture minister Nathi Mthethwa on Tuesday.

East London businesswoman Queen Nolubabalo Khazeka Mcinga-Dalindyebo, estranged wife of AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, says her vote come May 29 will go to one party and one party only — the...

The provincial government is scrambling to quarantine Eastern Cape's Covid-19 patient zero, who has been roaming around East London in defiance of the state's containment measures.

Her throat slit and blood pooling around her, a Port Elizabeth woman managed to remain conscious long enough to whisper to those huddled around her the name of the man who allegedly raped and...

The amaXhosa royal house has called for the Xhosa nation to mourn King Mpendulo Zwelonke Sigcawu for the next 12 months, while the nation has also been urged to wear its traditional regalia every day...

Mdantsane's PR councillor Mandla Faku has opened a maths club to help coach high school pupils from various schools in the community with the subject.

A strategy document signed by Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane and approved by the provincial cabinet was copied almost word-for-word from a presentation made by the Australian government in 2015.

Twelve thousand government workers in the Eastern Cape have illegally drawn R16.1m in Sassa grants — among them Sassa and provincial social development employees. A report presented in parliament...

He has been dead for two years, and yet an East London businessman scored a personal protective equipment tender worth almost R1m from the Eastern Cape health department

The Eastern Cape’s Sinaye Kotobe, who was part of Big Brother Mzansi season four, has set his sights on a career in sports broadcasting. His journey came to an end on Sunday evening, following the...

The EFF's Cofimvaba councillor Lulama Mvo, 85, has died of Covid-19 complications

An ANC ward councillor in the OR Tambo district municipality has come under fire for keeping water tanks destined for drought-stricken communities at his private home. The six tanks have been at the...

Music echoed at Mthatha airport when fans celebrated the homecoming of the former Big Brother Titans contestant Juicy Jay.

The KwaZulu-Natal arts and culture department is accused of spending R2.2m on personal protective equipment for the staff of a library that has not yet been built.

Once a student leader, now a respected academic, Mdantsane-born Dr Olwethu Sipuka has been appointed dean of students at Unisa — a position that is a step on the road to his dream of becoming...

SRC election preliminary results at Walter Sisulu University indicate that the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command won three of the four campuses and all five seats at institutional level.

The latest elections survey by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has found that the EFF may be the only party which receives a significant increase in voter support when South Africa goes to the...

UDM leader Bantu Holomisa was among many angry people who left the voting station at Mthatha Town Hall after being told their names were not on the voters' roll. He told IEC officials that he had...

The EFF has started a book club which will run during the lockdown.

Nomsa Nokhanyiso Thelma Ngcukayitobi, mother of ANC provincial secretary and advocate Tembeka Ngcukayitobi, has died.Mama Ngcukayitobi died in East London on Wednesday after an illness.

Gqeberha attorney Andrew Shaun Masimla has been struck from the roll of attorneys for allegedly stealing most of a hefty Road Accident Fund (RAF) payout meant for a client who lost the use of both...

Three suspects — including an Eastern Cape traditional leader implicated in extortion — were killed in a shoot-out with police in Mthatha on Wednesday afternoon. Nkosi Sakhumzi Sakhi Dalinzolo...

Health and beauty retailer Clicks has agreed to award five scholarships to black female students to pursue pharmaceutical qualifications in 2021 after meeting members of the EFF on Thursday.

UDM deputy president Nqabayomzi Kwankwa has been rescued after being allegedly kidnapped on his way to the Cape Town International Airport on Tuesday afternoon. According to party leader Bantu...

Controversy was the order of the day when EFF leader Julius Malema finally took to the podium at the party's provincial manifesto launch on Sunday.

Buntu Fanteso, 24, has forged his way from Ngcengane Village through two SA universities and is heading to Oxford in England to pursue a doctorate in environment science. Fanteso, 24, is a graduate...

Shortly after 7pm on Monday night, 30 members of the EFF invaded the sprawling farmhouse of Gonubie killer Fritz Joubert. The Fighters said the occupation was a show of force against racism. Joubert,...

An armed robber, disguised as a cleaner, breached the defence ministry and defence force headquarters compound in Pretoria and robbed a bank before escaping undetected

For 27-year-old Onezwa Mbola of Willowvale, flavour is the foundation on which she built her business, which officially launches on June 23.

Protesting students have finally been allowed back into their residences after AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo intervened following clashes with law enforcement.

The EFF and the Eastern Cape Bonafides Forum have welcomed the transfer of a corruption case against Eastern Cape political heavyweights premier Oscar Mabuyane, public works MEC Babalo Madikizela,...

A year ago, Dutywa-born Siphe Potelwa was just an ordinary police warrant officer, but today he does not only hold a PhD degree, he has left the service to become an academic and head a Fort Hare...

Born in the Eastern Cape, Godlimpi is one of the youngest and arguably most powerful ANC leaders of his generation.

The Mthatha high court has ordered Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane and education MEC Fundile Gade to remove pit toilets and fix classrooms and add sports facilities to at least five schools. In...

Saftu said Zuma, former intelligence ministers Siyabonga Cwele and David Mahlobo, and former SSA head Arthur Fraser should be arrested.

EFF secretary-general Marshall Dlamini has vowed that his party will go all out to topple what he called “ANC thieves” in the Eastern Cape in the upcoming general election. Dlamini was addressing...

A young Eastern Cape man, who amassed quite a following on TikTok where he posts clips of himself reading news bulletins in isiXhosa, is finally living his dream of being on TV. Lilitha Ntsundwani...