From forfeiting R100m while schools are in dire need of infrastructural upgrades to an uproar over a UAE delegation landing at Bulembu Airport, there was never a dull moment in 2023 in the Eastern Cape’s political and administrative affairs. The Dispatch is looking back at the year that was, reflecting on some of the topical issues that had set the news agenda for the province.
Bulembu Airport was abuzz with scores of Buffalo City Metro school pupils who attended a careers expo as part of International Civil Aviation Day celebrations on Saturday.
Bhisho’s Bulembu Airport, which hogged the headlines when United Arab Emirates president Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and his large entourage touched down there earlier this year, could be renamed.
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi mockingly challenged the DA to 'drag [him] to court or law enforcement agencies' after the party claimed he broke the law to allow the Emirati president and his entourage to enter South Africa at the Bulembu Airport last month.