Alt-rock folk band The Hyacinth Wild have been tripping across the Eastern Cape, performing intimate shows in Hogsback and Makhanda and, on Friday, will be in East London. The band from Eshowe, near Durban, opt for local anecdotes over poetic clichés, with a set of about 20 original songs from members Dave Starke 43, (vocalist and writer), Lizzie Gaisford, 33, (guitar, bass and vocals) and Strato Copteros, 56, (drums and percussion).
The president has honoured a member of the ANC's armed wing who was killed in 1978 in then-Port Elizabeth when the explosive device he was carrying detonated.
A high court bid by three Eastern Cape government departments to have two decade-old judgments rescinded has failed leaving them on the hook for a R41m damages award to architectural firm Ikamva plus an estimated R110m in interest. The legal circus has dragged on for more than 16 years since the provincial departments of public works and health bungled the awarding of the 2003 architectural contract for the upgrade of Frere Hospital.
Fingo Village, Makhanda, rapist Loyiso Coko has had his conviction for the 2018 rape of a 21-year-old woman confirmed by the Supreme Court of Appeal, which found that consensual foreplay did not imply the woman consented to sexual penetration. The SCA found that judge Nyameko Gqamana and acting judge Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, sitting in the Makhanda high court, committed an error in law when they overturned Coko’s conviction by the town’s regional court.