The Eastern Cape government says it has been kept in the dark by the department of higher education and training on the progress of the University of Fort Hare’s request to establish a Veterinary Sciences School, which is likely to open its doors in 2025 if things go as planned. This was revealed by rural development and agrarian reform MEC Nonkqubela Pieters in her recent response to ANC MPL Dr Fundisile Bese’s question in the provincial legislature.
Telecommunications companies MTN SA and Vodacom have reflected on their investments in the Eastern Cape over the 2023/2024 financial year, an accumulated R800m, though an internal study by the University of Fort Hare on its students has revealed that 64.5% are still without proper connectivity. In a media statement, Vodacom said it would invest more than R500m into the province towards new base stations, improving network capacity, LTE upgrades, backup power stability and a 5G rollout.
EFF leader Julius Malema says the survival of the ANC in the 2024 general elections depends on the Eastern Cape, appealing to his party members to put a spanner in the works.He was addressing the party’s ground forces forum at the Orient Theatre in East London on Sunday.
Just as the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence is about to kick off, a University of Fort Hare student was gunned down in Tsholomnqa possibly by her boyfriend, who may then have turned the gun on himself.
Just as the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence is about to kick off, a University of Fort Hare student was gunned down possibly by her boyfriend, who may then have turned the gun on himself.