The Eastern Cape Development Corporation has been ordered to pay R476,000 to a former employee, Mbulelo Ngxabane, after the CCMA ruled he was unprocedurally dismissed in 2018.
Once hives of employment in the former Transkei and Ciskei, many of the Eastern Cape Development Corporation’s industrial units are in ruins, with vandals having stripped away anything of value and making the Eastern Cape government’s promise of revitalising them just a pipe dream.
The Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC) is owed a staggering R438m by defaulting tenants who occupy the corporation’s properties, including provincial government departments, municipalities, political parties, security companies, law firms, funeral undertakers and churches. The ECDC has properties in Mdantsane, Qonce, Mthatha, Butterworth and Komani for commercial and residential use.
AB350 bus company is under siege from a syndicate torching its buses.
Since September 2020, AB 350 company has lost eight buses after they were torched with the latest incident happening on Friday at Engcobo.
AB 350 CEO Nosipho Ngewu said it will cost the company R2.1 million to replace each bus and is struggling to source the money.
The company s 155 buses ferry more than 500 000 passengers per month in large parts of the former Transkei in the Eastern Cape.
Eastern Cape transport MEC Weziwe Tikana-Gxothiwe has condemned torching of AB 350 buses in the Eastern Cape which has cost the company more than R16 million in four months.