Buffalo City Metro mayor Princess Faku was forced to intervene after desperate residents of Cambridge, East London, resorted to blocking voting stations at the weekend to protest against service delivery failures.
Residents in some rural Eastern Cape communities endured a black Christmas without electricity after a freak thunderstorm on Saturday left behind a trail of destruction, including broken poles and blown-up transformers.
Humanitarian relief organisation Gift of the Givers has spent R10m providing emergency relief to thousands of people displaced or affected by recent floods in the Western Cape.