Eastern Cape
Ntini picked for SA cricket Test squad
By Telford Vice EAST LONDON -- Makhaya Ntini is a step away from making his Test debut following his selection yesterday to the South African squad to play Sri Lanka at Newlands, Cape Town, from Thursday. As expected, paceman Ntini was part of...
Bishop slates ex-pupils' attitude of entitlement
GRAHAMSTOWN -- The emerging leadership in South African was yesterday criticised by SA Methodist leader Bishop Mvume Dandala for failing to instil pride and loyalty in the schools that produced them. Bishop Dandala was addressing about 250 past pu...
Cargo vessels give port busy weekend
By Wimpie Heath EAST LONDON -- The port here has had one of its busiest weekends in a long time and Portnet staff had their time cut out dealing with a 190-metre-long car carrier vessel, a fuel tanker, cargo ships, and even three Kenyan stowaways....
Clarendon schools do council's job
EAST LONDON -- Parents of Clarendon primary and preparatory schools on Saturday cleaned up the sidewalk linking the schools after the municipality failed to do so. Headmistress Bernadine Philpott said that the PTAs of both schools cleaned up the l...
Man jumps to his death from cliff at Nahoon River
EAST LONDON -- A Dorchester Heights man was killed jumping off a 30 metre high cliff into the Nahoon River at the weekend, police said. Captain Shannon Kirkhoff said the 34-year-old man was with friends who were jumping off the cliff on Saturday....
Three die violently over weekend
UMTATA -- Three people died violently in three separate incidents at the weekend. A 35-year-old man, Mr Temba Tyaba, died on his way to Umtata Hospital after he was stabbed in a fight in Gcaleka Street in Ngangelizwe. A 38-year-old suspect was a...
Education will help fight poverty Zuma
by Phakamisa Ngani UMTATA -- Human development was one way through which South Africa could emerge from poverty and other legacies of apartheid, Health Minister Nkosazana Zuma told academics and students here at the weekend. Addressing the Unive...
25 German pupils arrive on EC visit
By Wimpie Heath EAST LONDON -- Twenty-five scholars from Lower Saxony in Germany jetted into East London Airport on Saturday morning to compare notes on schooling systems and politics with a local school. The students, aged between 13 and 19, of ...
Man hangs himself on Stutt farm
EAST LONDON-- A 31-year-old man was found hanged from a tree near his home on a Stutterheim farm yesterday morning, police said. The man was found by his mother. No note was left and police suspect no foul play. lThe body of a 28-year-old woman...
Robbers steal R168000 at Bisho supermarket
By Wimpie Heath EAST LONDON -- Pick 'n Pay in Bisho was robbed of R168000 by two armed men at the weekend, police said. Captain Shannon Kirkhoff said yesterday the men entered the shop when manager Derick Gysman opened the door at 7.10 am on ...
Proposed policy 'will control EL shebeens'
By Zama Mpondwana EAST LONDON-- The East London city council's proposed policy on shebeens and taverns was designed to control informal alcohol retail operators and to manage their trade so that society's as well as the city's interests were prote...
Three stowaways found on tug
By Wimpie Heath EAST LONDON -- Three Kenyan stowaways rescued off a tug being towed to Taiwan were taken into custody here yesterday after spending three days without food or water in stormy seas. The tug Tam-Bau, which has no power or engine, wa...
Teargas used to force fugitives out of forest
By Stan Mzimba PORT ST JOHNS -- A combined force of police and soldiers sprayed teargas from helicopters in an operation aimed at flushing out people hiding in thick forest north of Port St Johns at the weekend. The fugitives have been hiding in ...
Call-up for dentists, pharmacists mooted
By Phakamisa Ngani UMTATA -- The compulsory year-long community service scheme to be introduced to new medical graduates in the country from July this year is likely to be extended to pharmacists and dentists at their own request. Health Minister...
Weapons, cash stolen in 4 T'kei robberies
UMTATA -- Armed robbers stole more than R83000 cash, firearms, cellphones and a video recorder in four separate incidents in Transkei at the weekend. In Norwood in Umtata, two gunmen held up Mr Ted Henson and robbed him of two guns, two cellphones...
Zwelitsha man shot dead after quarrel
EAST LONDON-- A 23-year-old man from Zwelitsha, Mr Melikhaya Taylor, was shot dead after a quarrel with another man in Dikidikana administration area at the weekend. Police said Mr Taylor alleged slapped the other man in the face during the quarre...
