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Suspended IDAC Duo At Heart Of R69m Tender Case Review Challenge

Suspended IDAC Duo At Heart Of R69m Tender Case Review Challenge

Neil Naidoo asks the National Prosecuting Authority to review prosecution as allegations engulf two KuGompo City investigators, who arreseted him and the prosecutor, who handled his case

Zolile Menzelwa · 1d ago · 4 min read

Farewell To A Pioneer Of Eastern Cape Academia

Farewell To A Pioneer Of Eastern Cape Academia

1d ago · 2 min read

Blossom Bloom Brings Its Growing Wellness Business to KuGompo City

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Blossom Bloom Brings Its Growing Wellness Business to KuGompo City

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Controversial Ex-Buffalo City Boss Takes Reins At Enoch Mgijima

Zolile Menzelwa and Johnnie Isaac · 1d ago

How Holomisa’s Political Experiment Survived The Changing Tides.

Johnnie Isaac · 4d ago

Mayor Snubs Summit To Rescue Bay Economy

Asemahle Mfombi · 2d ago

OPINIONS & PERSPECTIVE: Perhaps We Need to Go Back to Remember How We Got It Right

Pumla Ngesi · 2d ago

OPINIONS & PERSPECTIVES: The Conversion Of Public Influence Into Institutional Power: The Case Of Ntsiki Mazwai

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Farewell To A Pioneer Of Eastern Cape Academia

Farewell To A Pioneer Of Eastern Cape Academia

Lutho Ngoqo · 1d ago · 2 min read

Suspended IDAC Duo At Heart Of R69m Tender Case Review Challenge

Suspended IDAC Duo At Heart Of R69m Tender Case Review Challenge

Zolile Menzelwa · 1d ago · 4 min read

Mayor Snubs Summit To Rescue Bay Economy

Power & Money

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From Promises To Production: Gqeberha’s Small Automotive Businesses Seek Bigger Share Of Industry

From Promises To Production: Gqeberha’s Small Automotive Businesses Seek Bigger Share Of Industry

Asemahle Mfombi · 23 Sept · 4 min read

Got a Big Sporting Idea? Eastern Cape Has Money On the Table And Is Inviting Proposals

Got a Big Sporting Idea? Eastern Cape Has Money On the Table And Is Inviting Proposals

The Coastal Reporter · 10 Sept · 1 min read

Sport

From Dimbaza to Commonwealth glory: Dambile wants his story to inspire a generation

From Dimbaza to Commonwealth glory: Dambile wants his story to inspire a generation

Asemahle Mfombi · 18 Sept · 4 min read

Middendorp Treks To The Eastern Cape To Lead New Football Academy

Middendorp Treks To The Eastern Cape To Lead New Football Academy

Asemahle Mfombi · 17 Sept · 3 min read

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Why Hamburg’s New Jazz Festival Felt More Rock ’n Roll Than Oppikoppi

Why Hamburg’s New Jazz Festival Felt More Rock ’n Roll Than Oppikoppi

Andries Bezuidenhout · 10 Sept · 2 min read

BOOK REVIEW: Africa's intellectual exile networks and archive get a massive boost from new writing

BOOK REVIEW: Africa's intellectual exile networks and archive get a massive boost from new writing

Bonface Orucho · 06 Sept · 5 min read

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West African states are moving from fragmented oversight to coordinated regional control of their oceans

West African states are moving from fragmented oversight to coordinated regional control of their oceans

Bonface Orucho · 07 Sept · 5 min read

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OPINIONS & PERSPECTIVES: Who Can Fix Buffalo City? Putting The Mayoral Hopefuls To The Test

OPINIONS & PERSPECTIVES: Who Can Fix Buffalo City? Putting The Mayoral Hopefuls To The Test

Zola Pinda · 19 Sept · 11 min read

Prince Mlimandlela Ndamase Officially Enters The Mayoral Race

Prince Mlimandlela Ndamase Officially Enters The Mayoral Race

Lubabalo Ngcukana · 12 Sept · 1 min read

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OPINIONS & PERSPECTIVE: Perhaps We Need to Go Back to Remember How We Got It Right

OPINIONS & PERSPECTIVE: Perhaps We Need to Go Back to Remember How We Got It Right

Pumla Ngesi · 2d ago · 4 min read

OPINIONS & PERSPECTIVES: The Conversion Of Public Influence Into Institutional Power: The Case Of Ntsiki Mazwai

OPINIONS & PERSPECTIVES: The Conversion Of Public Influence Into Institutional Power: The Case Of Ntsiki Mazwai

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Controversial Ex-Buffalo City Boss Takes Reins At Enoch Mgijima

Controversial Ex-Buffalo City Boss Takes Reins At Enoch Mgijima

Zolile Menzelwa and Johnnie Isaac · 1d ago · 2 min read

Waste Management, Ngangelizwe Pool Projects Put On Hold As KSD Procurement Stalls

Waste Management, Ngangelizwe Pool Projects Put On Hold As KSD Procurement Stalls

The Coastal Reporter · 23 Sept · 1 min read

Boxing

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Nontshinga Suffers Knockout Defeat Against Suganob In IBF Title Eliminator

Nontshinga Suffers Knockout Defeat Against Suganob In IBF Title Eliminator

Bhongo Jacob · 12 Sept · 1 min read

World News Day

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Journalism & Our Chaotic World’s Future

Journalism & Our Chaotic World’s Future

Branko Brkic and Tina Brown · 4d ago · 4 min read

Thank goodness for the storytellers – the ones who probe, question, irritate the powerful

Thank goodness for the storytellers – the ones who probe, question, irritate the powerful

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Blossom Bloom Brings Its Growing Wellness Business to KuGompo City

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Blossom Bloom Brings Its Growing Wellness Business to KuGompo City

The Coastal Reporter · 2d ago · 2 min read

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News

Mayor Snubs Summit To Rescue Bay Economy

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The Price Families Pay For Medical Negligence — As Eastern Cape Fights To Change Compensation

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Johnnie Isaac · 4d ago

Kumkani Mhlontlo Municipality Municipal Manager Ndabeni, Five Officials Arrested For Fraud, Money Laundering

Zolile Menzelwa · 25 Sept

South Africa’s Citrus Industry Is Expanding Production While Opening New Routes Into Global Markets

Power & Money

South Africa’s Citrus Industry Is Expanding Production While Opening New Routes Into Global Markets

Bonface Orucho · 10 Sept · 5 min read

Troubled Ndlambe Misses Revenue Target As Debtors Top R300m

The Coastal Reporter · 10 Sept

Fresh Plans To Revive National Shipping Line As African Nations Ramp Up Fleet, Port Investments

Seth Onyango · 01 Sept

Athletics South Africa At Loggerheads With Comrades Marathon

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Athletics South Africa At Loggerheads With Comrades Marathon

WATCH News Agency · 11 Sept · 2 min read

From North End To The National Stage: Lakham Gqongo Reacts To His National U20 Call-Up

Asemahle Mfombi · 11 Sept

Three-Way Battle for Border Athletics Presidency As October Election Looms

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One Ball, 40 Players: How Mdantsane Produced An SA U20 Prospect

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Major tournaments, growing golf circuits and new tourism ventures are putting Africa’s fairways in play for a much bigger market.

Lifestyle

Major tournaments, growing golf circuits and new tourism ventures are putting Africa’s fairways in play for a much bigger market.

Bonface Orucho · 01 Sept · 7 min read

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OPINIONS & PERSPECTIVES: Remembering Stephen Bantu Biko Is A Struggle Against Amnesia

Politics

OPINIONS & PERSPECTIVES: Remembering Stephen Bantu Biko Is A Struggle Against Amnesia

Mlungisi Ncame · 12 Sept · 4 min read

Executive Mayor Urges Council to Sue Public Works Minister Over Stalled Land Transfer

Asemahle Mfombi · 10 Sept

Two Royals, One Mayoral Seat: Mthatha Race Takes Shape

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OPINIONS & PERSPECTIVES: Old Battles Never Died, They Merely Froze

OPINIONS & PERSPECTIVES: Old Battles Never Died, They Merely Froze

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KSD Chases Councillors And Staff Over Unpaid Municipal Bills

Council

KSD Chases Councillors And Staff Over Unpaid Municipal Bills

Bhongo Jacob · 21 Sept · 3 min read

Growing Public Outcry Forces City To Fix The Aquarium

Asemahle Mfombi · 18 Sept

KSD formally ties senior managers’ performance to service delivery — particularly roads, water, sanitation and infrastructure

Asemahle Mfombi · 14 Sept

Komani’s Financial Alarm Bells Ring as Collections Sink to 49%

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Nicaragua: Reinventing Journalism in Exile

Nicaragua: Reinventing Journalism in Exile

Carlos Fernando Chamorro · 5d ago · 4 min read

WORLD NEWS DAY: Trust Doesn't Arrive On Its Own. Someone Has To Go And Get The Facts.

Branko Brkic · 6d ago

WORLD NEWS DAY: Democracy Needs Journalism in Every Language

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WORLD NEWS DAY: When information is everywhere, and the reasons to give up are so many… journalism matters even more

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