Police minister Bheki Cele has promised to bring in “specialised” police from outside the area and possibly the military, to quell the raging violence in war-torn Majola in Port St Johns.
While most people would be happy to just receive gifts on their birthday, an Eastern Cape businesswoman used her big day to help the flood-stricken people of Port St Johns. Thandolwethu “Tdoz” Nolatsho, who originally hails from Mbutho village in Tsolo, used her 40th birthday celebration party, held in Port St Johns on Saturday, to raise more than R150,000 in less than 30 minutes to help those who were displaced by recent floods.
A state witness in the trial of an Eastern Cape senior traditional leader accused of orchestrating the murder of his younger brother told the Mthatha high court this week how he provided the royal with a firearm and organised hitmen. In his second day in the witness box, the man, whose identity has been withheld by the courts for his protection, told judge Fathima Dawood how he and AmaMpondo AseNyandeni’s Nkosi Sinikiwe Ndamase, 46, had acquired firearms and hitmen to eliminate Ndamase’s you.
Eastern Cape kings have urged their subjects, particularly those in rural communities, to go out in numbers to cast their votes and only vote for parties which prioritise development in rural areas.