A brave nine-year-old boy who woke in the middle of the night and found his home on fire and full of smoke, tried in vain to save to save his little brother and sister.
A dream getaway to the Wild Coast in the former Transkei turned into a nightmare for a group of East London friends and their children after they came under attack by balaclava-clad gunmen who fired at their car. However, they managed to escape and drive to a police station where they opened a case.
The UDM in the Nyandeni municipality has accused the ANC-led council of trying to suppress gross financial mismanagement and has now appealed to co-operative governance MEC Zolile Williams to help expose the rot.
Eastern Cape businessman Kholekile Waxa, 54, owner of Lisa Funeral Home in Corhana village outside Mthatha, was shot dead after being ambushed by armed gunmen at about 8pm on Tuesday.
For many years, residents in the Nyandeni municipality have had to spend their own money and travel many kilometres on bumpy gravel roads to access municipal offices in town to report or complain about service delivery matters.