East London's healthcare practitioners are under siege and working in fear as medical centres and private practices are being targeted by armed criminals pretending to be patients.
Buffalo City Metro communities are beginning to feel the pain of the city’s spending cuts after it pulled the plug on its multimillion-rand ward-based projects. According to the ward allocation programmes report, seen by the Dispatch, 14 wards had not touched their millions by the time the freeze was implemented towards the end of 2023, while others managed to spend between R6,000 and R900,000 per ward.
The scourge of abandoned and hijacked buildings in the Buffalo City Metro is compromising the safety of residents and businesses, with criminals running their operations from some of these neglected premises. BCM has identified 45 problem buildings, mostly in the East London city centre, Quigney, Southernwood, Vincent, Bonnie Doon, Egoli, Nahoon and Berea.
Police made seven arrests in East London on Friday afternoon. The charges include assaulting police officers. The alleged attack on the officers happened in Southernwood on Friday afternoon when police followed up on the assault of an 18-year-old boy.
As a protest by disgruntled Buffalo City College students continues unabated, the management has allegedly given NSFAS wrong information about why they are protesting.