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.
Police had to fire teargas to disperse a crowd early on Tuesday as an ambulance struggled to reach a man who had been beaten and stoned after being accused of abducting a five-year-old girl.The child, who was found unharmed with the man, had been reported missing by her family at the Mthatha Central police station on Monday morning.
Two pupils from Ndzondelelo High School walked away with gold medals at the Eskom Expo for Young Scientists in Gqeberha on Friday for their innovative ideas for dealing with Nelson Mandela Bay’s water crisis.
A church leader who led a prayer at one of the province’s most dangerous accident hotspots, lost her son in a car accident at the same place the next day. Fountain Gate Worshipping Centre head pastor Mamela Notyhawe found herself returning to the notorious N2 road near Makhaphetshwini outside Mthatha on Saturday to identify her son’s body.