Since 2019 the Eastern Cape provincial government has invested about R6 billion in building 104 state-of-the-art schools to replace mud structures, mostly in the former Transkei.
The amaXhosa kingdom, one of the biggest in the province, has gone into deep mourning after the death of one of its senior royal members, Nkosikazi Nolulamile Sibini, from the Imingcangathelo royal house.