A total of 11 initiates have died in the Eastern Cape during this year’s winter traditional circumcision season. Six of the deaths were in the Mhlontlo municipality, two in King Sabata Dalindyebo, another two in Ingquza Hill and one in Mdantsane. A total of 119 initiates were admitted to hospitals for the treatment of complications arising from traditional circumcision.
Traditional surgeons and nurses who are part of illegal initiation schools should be arrested and charged, say MPs in the portfolio committee on cooperative governance and traditional affairs.
The UDM in Mhlontlo local municipality wants Cogta MEC Xolile Nqatha to investigate allegations that the troubled municipality spent R250,000 on a jaunt to Gauteng for three ANC councillors and their partners, who are not employed by the municipality. In a scathing letter to Nqatha, which DispatchLIVE (http://www.
A total of R100m has been set aside to assist small businesses affected by the recent floods in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. This was revealed by small business development minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams at a media engagement session in Mthatha on Thursday afternoon. She said each province would be allocated R50m and that 50% of the money would be provided by her ministry and the balance by the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC).