The long-running story surrounding an official in the provincial education department, his fancy Mercedes Benze V class and a businessman had a development on Wednesday when both men were arrested by the provincial Hawks.
In a bid to keep the lights on at provincial health facilities despite persistent load-shedding, the Eastern Cape government has set aside R42m for diesel purchase and other energy-related expenses.
Auditor-general Tsakani Maluleke has commended two Eastern Cape development zones, the East London Industrial Development Zone (ELIDZ) and Coega IDZ, for maintaining their clean audit status and exceeding their targets for the number of new investors in the 2021/2022 financial year. The two development zones are among the 14 provincial government departments and public entities that scored clean audits in the year under review, a record for the province since the democratic dispensation.
Long-term plans for Amathole District Municipality to construct its own headquarters in either Chintsa or Stutterheim to avoid paying exorbitant rents for the current offices in Chiselhurst, East London, seem to have fallen flat, for now.
Financial, administrative and political challenges engulfing the troubled Amathole district municipality were on Tuesday laid bare before MPs in parliament in Cape Town.