NEWS RELATED TO eastern-cape

Vavi relates first-hand experience of nightmare facing poor, ill people in EC

EC postpones return of Grades R, 6 and 11 due to increased cases

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Another school and Eastern Cape municipality close after Covid-19 cases

Calls to close schools after over 200 test positive at EC boarding school

EC govt to build field hospitals as infections among health workers spike

DA bemoans ‘glorified wheelbarrows’, calls for EC health dept to be placed under administration

EC schools placed under custodianship of health department

Calls for new booze ban in EC growing

Gamtoos Valley farmers now pray for a flood to save them

Eastern Cape records highest number of schools still closed

Mkhize turns attention to ‘vulnerable’ Eastern Cape

EC pledges R69bn to upgrade informal settlements, build new houses

Crime

Cops find cigarettes, beer dumped near Lesotho-SA border after smuggler got ‘cold feet’

82 people have died of coronavirus in the Eastern Cape

Eastern Cape confirms some schools not ready to reopen on Monday

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Four more die after drinking home-brewed alcohol in EC

Covid-19 test backlog in the Eastern Cape sitting at more than 20K

Snow shuts down major roads in Eastern Cape

Eastern Cape mayor Khanyile Maneli loses wife to Covid-19

Premature baby’s Covid-19 death to be investigated, says Western Cape govt

Crime

60-year-old wife and three children arrested for allegedly beating husband, dad to death

Sadtu, teachers concerned about EC’s readiness to reopen schools

Three EC police stations close their doors as cops test positive for coronavirus

Health

‘I was also expecting them to be really white’ – Sindiswa Gomba has SA scratching its head

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Eastern Cape man missing since Saturday found dead floating in river

Crime

Husband killed, wife injured in attack at Eastern Cape homestead

Covid-19: Eastern Cape to spend R50m to upgrade 28 hospitals

Covid-19 has destroyed fiefdoms in state, allowing it to function better – Ramaphosa

Health

EC budgets R50m to upgrade hospitals for Covid-19

Mkhize sends 20 Cuban doctors to EC to assist in Covid-19 fight

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Eastern Cape villages hit by outbreak of African Swine Fever

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African swine fever outbreak reported in Eastern Cape

Family in limbo as elderly mother’s body lies at funeral parlour

EC health dept denies health workers don’t have enough PPE

Increased law enforcement ‘to monitor areas in EC with high virus infection rate’

Eastern Cape conducts over 7,000 Covid-19 tests, 400,000 screenings

Health

Mkhize sends reinforcements to Eastern Cape health department

How Eastern Cape is burying the dead may be helping to kill the living

Covid-19 cases in Eastern Cape prisons rise to 78

Snow is falling in the Eastern Cape, but no one is going out to ski

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Three teenage girls believed to have drowned at Cebe beach, Eastern Cape

Eastern Cape premier wants ‘stricter shutdown’ in his province

Crime

Eastern Cape mom found murdered next to her baby

Old and poor of KZN and EC at higher risk of Covid-19 death

EC to employ more nurses, test for Covid-19 at roadblocks

Circumcision schools suspended in Eastern Cape

Crime

Eastern Cape woman, 85, found shot dead in her sleep

Murdered Cape Town boy to be laid to rest in Eastern Cape

WATCH: Is this woman the reason the officer was attacked at Eastern Cape Legislature?

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Bus crash that claimed 25 lives was probably ‘overloaded’ – Fikile Mbalula

Mabuyane promises not to rest until Eastern Cape economy grows

Heavy rain, thundershowers hit Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, warns SA Weather Service

Courts

Law student released from prison after two years as high court overturns rape conviction

‘Farewell, brave colleague’ – emotional Eastern Cape cops say goodbye to hero dog

Health

Here comes SA’s first dagga college!

Pastor finds body of naked woman floating in Eastern Cape dam with her hands and feet bound

Crime

Three men arrested for murder in Eastern Cape

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Five teens perish in Eastern Cape crash

Water dept meets to discuss funds for drought-stricken areas

Pigs feast on human excrement as township drain overflows

No end in sight for Eastern Cape drought

Crime

Man arrested after allegedly bludgeoning father to death with hammer

GALLERY: Five years of thirst – SA’s Eastern Cape battles brutal drought

Five years of thirst: Eastern Cape battles brutal drought

Crime

Man arrested for raping 67-year-old woman in Eastern Cape

Gift of the Givers ‘battle’ with worsening Eastern Cape drought

Crime

Eastern Cape woman shoots suspected armed robber during farm attack

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Tornado in the Eastern Cape leaves eight families homeless

Crime

Eastern Cape farmer finds 18 sheep carcasses on his fence

Crime

81-year-old Eastern Cape woman found in bed with her throat slit

Crime

Cop commits suicide after allegedly shooting girlfriend’s sister

Dams are empty in Eastern Cape

SA no stranger to tornados – 17 recorded in the past decade

Municipality breaks its promise of building a pool for children of Addo

Drought grips Eastern Cape villages as residents, livestock without water for months