Updated: 8am GMT -- 2007/08/01
Eastern Cape
ATM blast rocks city centre
AFTERMATH: Police comb the scene for clues after robbers, seen fleeing in a red car, blew up an ATM in East London early yesterday, causing extensive damage to the next door restaurant. Picture: PHILLIP NOTHNAGEL Explosion so massive it ble...
Recent ATM crimes around the country:
l On May 26, a Standard Bank automated teller machine (ATM) was blown up at 1.30am in the Spar Centre in Cullinan, east of Pretoria. An unknown number of suspects were involved. Police found money scattered all over the floor. l On July 11, i...
Kick out ‘useless’ council, residents demand
By LUBABALO NGCUKANA Mthatha Bureau FED-UP Mthatha business people and clergy marched on the King Sabata Dalindyebo offices yesterday in a bid to kick out the council. They want an administrator to handle their affairs instead of the council ...
Mthatha raid dad wants FW charged
THE father of two boys who were killed in the 1993 Mthatha raid ordered by FW de Klerk wants the former president to be prosecuted. The twin boys of Sigqibo Mpendulo were shot in their sleep at their home, which De Klerk said had been conf...
FAIR BRIDES
The eighth Dennis Collins Jeweller's Bridal & Beauty Fair will be held at the BKB building on August 4-5. Showing off some of the stylish wedding garments which will feature in fashion shows at the fair are, left to right, Simpiwe Dobela (in ...
SCOUTS’ HONOUR RENEWED
First Cambridge Scout Hall’s master scout Brett Forbes, scout Morgan Rusch, and troop leader Murray Fennell, stand ready to celebrate 100 years of scouting throughout the world. Today at 8am, bells will peal across East London and throughout 198 ...
Premier hands in report on EC public health
TAKING NOTE: MEC Nomsa Jajula listens to premier Nosimo Balindlela during a briefing at the Legislature. Picture: MASI LOSI By NTANDO MAKHUBU Health Reporter THE report on the state of the Eastern Cape’s public health sector has been submitte...
Why committee was barred
By NTANDO MAKHUBU Health Reporter THE decision to bar members of the provincial health portfolio committee from entering or holding meetings with Cecilia Makiwane Hospital management last month came from East London Hospital Complex (ELHC) chie...
Beaten robber gives cops the slip
Man escapes at hospital after shopowner clubs him By AVUYILE MNGXITAMA A ROBBER who was beaten up by a local shop owner yesterday gave city law officials the slip as he was about to be treated at hospital for his injuries. The incident happe...
MY KINDA TOWN |East London
Kalpana Gaire – Prevention is better than cure KALPANA Gaire is a beautician who is originally from Nepal. She operates her business from her home in Selborne. If you could give up your current job and become a full time activist, what ca...
Give us facts of king’s night on hospital bench
Traditional leaders demand to know truth By LULAMILE FENI Traditional Affairs Reporter EASTERN Cape traditional leaders have demanded a public apology from Health MEC Nomsa Jajula to AmaGcaleka King Mpendulo Sigcawu following his “ill...
He threatened me with a gun – Burchell
By DAVID MACGREGOR Port Alfred Bureau CLAIMS by professional hunter Barry Burchell that his former friend and estranged American business partner, Scott Anglin, pitched up one night at his Alicedale lodge in a drunken state and “threatened” him w...
Tears as woman admits theft
By THANDUXOLO JIKA Court Reporter AN EAST London bookkeeper who stole almost R900000 from her employer has pleaded guilty to 178 counts of theft. Helya Kreusch, 32, pleaded guilty in the East London Regional Court following her arrest in Fe...
State demands life for child rapist
THE state called for the maximum sentence of life imprisonment yesterday for the young rapist of a 10-year-old deaf mute girl. Arguing for the imposition of a life sentence before Grahamstown High Court Judge Bonisile Sandi, advocate Hanlie Pie...
Teenage girl raped at knifepoint
A MAN has been arrested after allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl near Dutywa at knifepoint. Captain Lingsile Magama said the girl was raped on her way home from a nearby shop on Monday afternoon. “She had been crossing the Ezifama River and...
