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An Eastern Cape attorney has graduated with an LLM (master of laws) from the renowned Harvard Law School.
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A Port Elizabeth woman who stabbed her would-be rapist to death has been declared not guilty of murder.
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King William’s erupted into celebration after Luyolo Yiba was announced the winner of #IdolsSA season 15.
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Former petrol jockey Siphesihle Nqoro, who bade farewell to his job at a local garage to pursue his dream of becoming a lawyer, has been sworn in as an attorney of the Makhanda high court.
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The four PhD chemistry students from Rhodes University in Makhanda were the only South Africans who took part, beating 45 other teams from across the world.
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Twenty pupils from a top-achieving Eastern Cape rural school will not have to worry about their tuition for the year, thanks to Cala-born actress Ama Qamata.
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Lindani Mzize, 26, a former taxi driver from Jali in Mbizana, beat the odds to graduate as a medical doctor.
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While carrying out his daily duties one day, which included raking leaves, cutting grass and pruning plants, Mafu, 39, approached an academic staff member, Awonke Tshefu, and told him about his dream to study.
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The Eastern Cape's own brand of mealie meal, produced and processed at a small milling plant in Mqanduli, can now be found in several shops across the province.
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Twenty-two people have been found dead at an East London nightclub.
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Couple reach goals together: Zimbabwean pair get their PhDs, ready for their wedding celebrations.
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WATCH | Lukhanyo Am’s mother Zukiswa says she is happy the Springboks brought the cup home. Video: ZIYANDA ZWENI
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Two students from Walter Sisulu University have invented a groundbreaking prosthetic leg which will give financial and physical relief to the over three million below knee amputation casualties occurring annually.
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The bright spark a true Medicine Man: Dr Matshikiza, 30, has qualified as a neurologist.
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Thousands of degrees awarded by Walter Sisulu University (WSU) may be invalid. Graduates and current students have been studying courses that are not registered or accredited by the Council on Higher Education.
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AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo has been campaigning hard for the EFF.
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Two suspected extortionists were killed in a shootout with police in Kugaduka village in Ngcingane, near Mthatha, on Thursday. Pictures: LULAMILE FENI
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Self-confessed druglord walks free after paying R1m fine.
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In an unprecedented move, Eastern Cape legislators have resolved that all colonial- and apartheid-era statues in the province be removed. The decision validates a motion tabled by the EFF in July, in which they argued for “restoring the dignity of .
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Mdantsane high school teacher Zandisiwe Ngayo, 31, was recently named as the province’s best physical science teacher at an awards ceremony at East London’s International Convention Centre the ICC in East London.
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Eastern Cape drug smuggler may be freed from Thai jail: .
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East London radio presenter, Zanele Potelwa - a Hudson Park High School alumni, will soon be one of the most recognisable voices in the land after taking up a position at 5FM.
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A circulating video of Eastern Cape premier and ANC provincial chair, Oscar Mabuyane encouraging members at a party gathering to be nice to people ahead of the May 29 elections and shun them thereafter, has left a trail of ire.
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A University of Fort Hare student Thandolwethu Ngolo, 22, has gone missing.
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WATCH | New Mandela banknotes and coins will hit your wallets next week .
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Siphenkosi Nqoro, 29, who works as a petrol attendant at a Shell garage in Mdantsane, has completed his LLB at the University of Fort Hare.
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An eight-year-old EL girl who missed two months of class at the beginning of the year after she was denied entry to a private college due to her dreadlocks was named the top achiever at her new Buffalo City Metro Inner City School last week.
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A Mthatha-born doctor has been added to the list of SA's neurosurgery specialists. When Dr Ndyebo Samkelo Mabovula was accepted at Walter Sisulu University to study medicine in 2007, he knew he was on his way to realising his childhood dream of becoming.
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WATCH | EFF leader Julius Malema has returned to Vukuhambe Special School in Mdantsane to give the party’s birthday cake to the pupil of the school. On Thursday, he was at the school to donate washing machines, wheelchairs, and promised to return with the cake today. #EFFTurns5
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University of Fort Hare reaches new heights with 88 doctorates.
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WATCH | OR Tambo police district commissioner, Major-General Phumzile Cetyana, commenting on the shoot-out that left three suspects dead, including a traditional leader implicated in extortion. Video: LULAMILE FENI
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East London property tycoon Xoliswa Tini, who founded Xoliswa Tini Property Services in 2005, is heading to Gauteng, to build her property development division there.
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Eastern Cape actress Noxolo Maqashalala has died. She was 44. According to family friend Senyukele Zibobo, Maqashalala's body was found at her Honeydew home in Johannesburg on Friday. “I received a call from her brother informing me of her death. He .
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Two more private investigators have been hired to work with the police and well-known private investigator Noel Pratten as the search for the missing UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana,19, intensifies.
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Mdantsane-born Khanyisa Monqo has long been an advocate for the natural hair movement through online master classes. Earlier this year she turned that passion into a business
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A 24-year-old Free State female doctor bit a man's tongue so severely he required surgery, after he allegedly attempted to rape her at the hospital where she works.
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WATCH | Springboks singing at the East London city hall. Video: ZIYANDA ZWENI
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The state has admitted that it failed to prove its case against EFF leader Julius Malema’s co-accused, Adriaan Snyman.
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BREAKING | It is official, Port Elizabeth has a new name — Gqeberha.
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East London businesswoman Queen Nolubabalo Khazeka Mcinga-Dalindyebo, estranged wife of AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, says her vote come May 29 will go to one party and one party only — the EFF.
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The provincial government is scrambling to quarantine Eastern Cape's Covid-19 patient one, who has been roaming around East London in defiance of the state's containment measures.
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Her throat slit and blood pooling around her, a Port Elizabeth woman managed to remain conscious long enough to whisper to those huddled around her the name of the man who allegedly raped and assaulted her to within an inch of her life
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The amaXhosa royal house has called for the Xhosa nation to mourn King Mpendulo Zwelonke Sigcawu for the next 12 months.
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Kaizer Chiefs jersey in demand globally after being voted as the world's best.
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Mdantsane's PR councillor Mandla Faku has opened a maths club to help coach high school pupils from various schools in the community with the subject.
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A strategy document signed by Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane and approved by the provincial cabinet was copied almost word-for-word from a presentation made by the Australian government in 2015.
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Twelve thousand government workers in the Eastern Cape have illegally drawn R16.1m in Sassa grants — among them Sassa and provincial social development employees.
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He has been dead for two years, and yet an East London businessman scored a personal protective equipment tender worth almost R1m from the Eastern Cape health department
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The Eastern Cape’s Sinaye Kotobe, who was part of Big Brother Mzansi season four, has set his sights on a career in sports broadcasting.
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Busiswa tells DA to attend to Khayelitsha fire & stop 'harassing' Floyd Shivambu.
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Former Engcobo municipality administrator Mzubanzi Silinga and nine officials, who allegedly cost taxpayers R11.2m by awarding contracts to companies that did not deliver the work, have to personally pay it back, National Treasury has recommended.
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The EFF's Cofimvaba councillor Lulama Mvo, 85, has died of Covid-19 complications
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A former SAA cabin attendant who was living the high life after marrying her army boss boyfriend — and who was allegedly “gifted” defence contracts worth R210m — was arrested on Wednesday morning, NPA spokesperson Sipho Ngwema confirmed.
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An ANC ward councillor in the OR Tambo district municipality has come under fire for keeping water tanks destined for drought-stricken communities at his private home. The six tanks have been at the Njombela village, Lusikisiki home of Isaac Nkungu for .
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Music echoed at Mthatha airport when fans celebrated the homecoming of the former Big Brother Titans contestant Juicy Jay.
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The KwaZulu-Natal arts and culture department is accused of spending R2.2m on personal protective equipment for the staff of a library that has not yet been built.
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ANC puts Supra on team to fix North-West shambles caused by . Supra.
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Once a student leader, now a respected academic, Mdantsane-born Dr Olwethu Sipuka has been appointed dean of students at Unisa — a position that is a step on the road to his dream of becoming registrar or vice-chancellor
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SRC election preliminary results at Walter Sisulu University indicate that the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command won three of the four campuses and all five seats at institutional level.
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The latest election survey by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has found that the EFF may be the only party to gain a significant increase in voter support when South Africa goes to the polls on May 8.
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UDM leader Bantu Holomisa was among many angry people who left the voting station at Mthatha Town Hall after being told their names were not on the voters' roll.
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The EFF has started a book club which will run during the lockdown.
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Nomsa Nokhanyiso Thelma Ngcukayitobi, mother of ANC provincial secretary and advocate Tembeka Ngcukayitobi, has died.Mama Ngcukayitobi died in East London on Wednesday after an illness.
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Gqeberha attorney Andrew Shaun Masimla has been struck from the roll of attorneys for allegedly stealing most of a hefty Road Accident Fund (RAF) payout meant for a client who lost the use of both legs in a horror car accident.
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An Eastern Cape traditional leader implicated in extortion was shot dead in Mthatha on Wednesday afternoon.
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Health and beauty retailer Clicks has agreed to award five scholarships to black female students to pursue pharmaceutical qualifications in 2021 after meeting members of the EFF on Thursday.
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UDM deputy president Nqabayomzi Kwankwa has been rescued after being allegedly kidnapped on his way to the Cape Town International Airport on Tuesday afternoon. According to party leader Bantu Holomisa, a R10,000 ransom was paid.
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The National Chairperson of the EFF Dali Mpofu is leading thousands of EFF members to the West Bank prison where AbaThembu King Buyelekaya Dalindyebo is serving his prison sentence. Mpofu says the EFF is joining many voices that have called for the release of the jailed King.
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Malema: “They [garden workers] are paid nothing by the fellow South Africans of Indian descent. For us to build unity, the Indian community must rework their mentality that they are closer to whiteness. They are not closer to whiteness, they are black. ".
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Buntu Fanteso, 24, has forged his way from Ngcengane Village through two SA universities and is heading to Oxford in England to pursue a doctorate in environment science. Fanteso, 24, is a graduate of Walter Sisulu University and the University of .
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Shortly after 7pm on Monday night, 30 members of the EFF invaded the farmhouse of Gonubie killer Fritz Joubert. The Fighters said the occupation was a show of force against racism.
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"White people's dogs eat better than black children. They eat biltong and have medical aid.”.
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An armed robber, disguised as a cleaner, breached the defence ministry and defence force headquarters compound in Pretoria and robbed a bank before escaping undetected
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Prof Lumumba has arrived at the Walter Sisulu University Mthatha campus auditorium ahead of his Mandela Lecture #LumumbaMandelaLecture
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The streets of King William’s Town in the Eastern Cape transformed into a carnival atmosphere as supporters of KWT-born Idols winner Luyolo Yiba celebrate his victory. Videos: MALIBONGWE DAYIMANI @IdolsSA #IdolsSA #IdolsLuyolo
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EFF leader Julius Malema is at Vukuhambe Special School in Mdantsane where the party will donate wheelchairs and washing machines. #EFFTurns5
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For 27-year-old Onezwa Mbola of Willowvale, flavour is the foundation on which she built her business, which officially launches on June 23.
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A controversial chief financial officer fired by an Eastern Cape municipality in 2016 and axed again for gross misconduct after being charged with dishonesty, fraud and corruption by a KwaZulu-Natal development agency, has been appointed to the same pos.
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BREAKING: Balindlela dumps the DA to rejoin the ANC.
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Julius Malema and his officials are having lunch with the pupils of Vukuhambe special needs school in Mdantsane. Malema announced that the school would be part of the EFFs legacy project and promised to build a computer lab for the school. #EFFturns5
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Itumeleng Khune's girlfriend Sbahle Mpisane survives the night.
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Mlibo Qoboshiyane just announced he'll be joining forces with the Madikizela camp
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The EFFSC, which has been making inroads at a number of tertiary institutions, unseated the South African Students Congress, which had been in charge of the TVET college for the past six years.@EFFSouthAfrica @Julius_S_Malema @MbuyiseniNdlozi
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Protesting students have finally been allowed back into their residences after AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo intervened following clashes with law enforcement.
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The EFF welcomed the transfer of a corruption case against EC premier Oscar Mabuyane and MECs Babalo Madikizela and Weziwe Tikana-Gxothiwe to the Hawks. The EFF opened cases against the three on Sunday following a damning report by the public protector.
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A year ago, Dutywa-born Siphe Potelwa was just an ordinary police warrant officer, but today he does not only hold a PhD degree, he has left the service to become an academic and head a Fort Hare University department
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Born in the Eastern Cape, Godlimpi is one of the youngest and arguably most powerful ANC leaders of his generation.
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Inside Butterworth Hospital in pictures: . Sick and elderly patients spend the night sleeping on cold hospital floors and benches in the hope of getting to the front of the queue for medical help the next day.
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The Mthatha high court has ordered Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane and education MEC Fundile Gade to remove pit toilets and fix classrooms and add sports facilities to at least five schools.
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"We call for the immediate arrest of Jacob Zuma, Arthur Fraser, Siyabonga Cwele and David Mahlobo, together with all those who helped them . for defeating the ends of justice, including possibly for treason.".
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EFF secretary-general Marshall Dlamini has vowed that his party will go all out to topple what he called “ANC thieves” in the Eastern Cape in the upcoming general election.
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In the Dispatch today:FOUR thousand Eastern Cape ex-miners or their families today stand a chance to claim their share of R40-billion.
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