For a country that races from one crisis to the next with the speed and eagerness of a highly athletic idiot running through a series of plate glass windows, we do sometimes think surprisingly slowly.
An Eastern Cape woman who was among nine people gunned down in a mass shooting in the North West in December has finally been buried at her home in Port St Johns.
Business owners in Mthatha and surrounding towns are being threatened by extortionists who sometimes order them to cough up as much as R30,000 for “protection”.Police spokesperson Captain Welile Matyolo told the Dispatch this week that at least seven cases had been reported so far.