The Daily Dispatch and its sister publications, The Herald and Weekend Post, took home the lion’s share of praise dished out at this year’s Vodacom Journalist of the Year (VJOY) awards for the Eastern Cape region announced on Thursday.
The Herald and its sister publication, Daily Dispatch, walked away with top honours at the 2022 edition of the Vodacom Journalist of the Year (VJOY) awards for the Eastern Cape region, scooping seven of the 12 award categories between them.
In a bid to control soaring spending, the provincial education department has placed an interim ban on the procurement of all goods and services for the time being.
Pressure is building on an ANC councillor and a well-known East London boxer over a company they previously owned which scored several tenders at the Amathole district municipality. ADM councillor Nomfesane Nyatela has now been raided twice by the Hawks, allegedly due to tenders scored by two companies she used to own which received business with the ADM.
The Amathole district municipality paid hundreds of millions of rand for questionable tenders, with more than R230m between 2017 and this year paid to service providers whose contracts have been red-flagged by the ailing council’s new leadership. The struggling municipality has recently battled to pay staff salaries.