A new system that will force motorists to pay at least R15 an hour to park their vehicles in the Mthatha CBD could be up and running before the end of May. King Sabata Dalindyebo Municipality (KSD) mayor Nyaniso Nelani’s spokesperson, Olwethu Mabovula, confirmed on Thursday that work to install the paid parking system was already in progress.
Forensic pathology officers based at the state morgue in Mthatha, who sometimes have to fetch dead bodies from crime and accident scenes, allegedly have to conduct postmortems themselves, instead of calling on professional doctors to do the job.
An Eastern Cape HIV-positive serial rapist has been sentenced to eight life terms for raping eight young women, four of them schoolgirls. He was also convicted of seven counts of attempted murder after he raped seven of the women without using a condom when he knew he was HIV-positive. Mthatha high court judge Buyiswa Majiki sentenced the 34-year-old father to: • Eight life terms for eight counts of rape; • Five years for each of the eight counts of kidnapping; • Eight years for each.
The shutdown of Eastern Cape roads by taxi operators over four-month payment delays for scholar transport services, which caused chaos in the province yesterday, has been suspended. This after a meeting in East London between taxi council leaders and provincial transport leaders, including Oscar Mabuyane who is said to have joined telephonically.
Xolani Gcelu, an HIV-positive man who raped several women during a reign of terror from 2016 to 2019 in the Eastern Cape, has been sentenced to nine life imprisonment terms and 158 years.