The King Sabata Dalindyebo municipality, the third-largest economy in the Eastern Cape, might have failed to become a metro, but municipal bosses this week announced grand plans to further bolster the local authority’s economy. Giving an administrative overview of the municipality during the first day of KSD’s mega strategic planning session at the Savoy Hotel and Conference Centre in Mthatha on Monday, municipal manager Ngamela Pakade revealed ambitious plans to revive a railway line betwee.
The Eastern Cape government has announced that more than R2bn has been earmarked to turn 11 strategic gravel routes into tar roads. Finance MEC Mlungisi Mvoko told the Bhisho Legislature on Tuesday that R512.9m had been added to the provincial roads maintenance grant, increasing it from R1.5bn to R2.
At least 36 people were injured when three buses ferrying people to the IFP's election manifesto launch in Durban were involved in an accident on the N2 near Gingindlovu in KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday morning.
Premier Oscar Mabuyane, in a podcast interview with DispatchLIVE on Monday, compared the Eastern Cape’s performance in 2023 to what the ANC government hoped to achieve in priority areas in its next five years that is if it wins the national election in May.In many of the priority areas, the provincial government’s current performance was ahead of the curve.