In the early hours of Sunday morning, members of the Daily Dispatch team awoke to frantic phone calls and messages. An unspeakable tragedy had taken place.
Border-Kei Chamber of Business says the Enyobeni Tavern tragedy reflects a greater societal problem and that stakeholders need to shoulder the blame for the deaths of 21 young people in Scenery Park on Sunday.
Dastile Wealth Insure (DWI) was formally launched in Quigney, East London, on Thursday with the financial services provider promising to create hundreds of jobs for the Eastern Cape in the next few years.
Buffalo City Metro council has approved a budget of almost R10bn for the new financial year and dedicated 70% of it towards infrastructure development. According to the metro’s Integrated Development Plan (IDP), adopted by the council last week, there are plans to begin construction on more than 60,000 new residential units in various suburbs throughout the metro, a number of bulk water and sewerage infrastructure upgrades including upgrades to the Umzonyana wastewater treatment works; an ext.
Theft and vandalism of crucial infrastructure continues to cost Buffalo City Metro millions, with businesses and residents having to deal with the consequences. “It is so bad that people in their houses can’t sleep if they’ve got copper pipes or any type of cable against their walls. “They [thieves] go into people’s yards and break off their copper pipes,” Schalk van der Sandt, founder of Pefferville-based NGO Friends of Schalk, said.