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Demarcation board's scathing verdict on 'dysfunctional' KSD revealed

Despite the King Sabata Dalindyebo municipality boasting the third-largest economy in the Eastern Cape, it has been branded “currently financially and administratively dysfunctional”. The municipality also has a low population density and limited economic development and comprises about 90% traditionally rural areas. ....

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Mabuyane urged to prioritise fixing province's crumbling roads

The DA has written to premier Oscar Mabuyane asking for urgent intervention to repair rundownroads in the Eastern Cape. The official opposition wants Mabuyane to commit to shifting funds to urgently fix roads that lead to tourist destinations and farming communities. ....

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KSD plans to become a metro thwarted

King Sabata Dalindyebo municipality mayor Nyaniso Nelani’s big dreams of turning his municipality into a metro in two years’ time have come crashing down.This after a proposal to incorporate another town and several municipal wards from two other local municipalities into KSD to form a category A municipality failed to convince the Municipal Demarcation Board. ....

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Disaster authorities counting cost of festive season flooding

Disaster teams have descended on communities hit hard by heavy rain and flooding over the festive season to assess the damage. ....

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Villagers suffer black Christmas after storm

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. ....

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