The Daily Dispatch and its sister publications, The Herald and Weekend Post, took home the lion’s share of praise dished out at this year’s Vodacom Journalist of the Year (VJOY) awards for the Eastern Cape region announced on Thursday.
Former Amathole district municipality member of the mayoral committee for engineering and infrastructure services Nomfesane Nyatela has blamed her troubles with the law on politics now playing out in the municipality. She singled out her refusal to withdraw an affidavit in support of a court application by former municipal manager Thandekile Mnyimba in his bid to get his job back.
Eastern Cape taxi boss Nokuthula Mbebe has vowed to fight up to the Constitutional Court to access bank accounts belonging to the different taxi associations under her co-operative.