After a delay of about 10 years, the Mnquma municipality’s driving licence testing centre is finally taking off. The construction of the centre, in Msobomvu township in Butterworth, was delayed by a legal wrangle between the municipality and the initial service provider. An amount of R5m was spent by the municipality with the initial contractor, but it could not be accounted for because the construction was never completed.
Lwanda Njobeni, 20, has lived on the streets of Buffalo City for three years. He is one of thousands of homeless youths sleeping, eating, suffering and hanging onto life on the cold, hard Eastern Cape streets.
An Eastern Cape medical student studying in Cuba is pleading with authorities to allow him to finish his medical degree after being kicked out of his Cuban medical school just weeks before completing his studies.
An Eastern Cape medical student studying in Cuba has pleaded with authorities to allow him to finish his degree after being kicked out of medical school weeks before completing his studies.