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Sikho Ntshobane

Sikho Ntshobane has been a journalist within the Daily Dispatch media family for almost 25 years, covering issues affecting communities across the province.

Billions await Eastern Cape’s forgotten mineworkers

An estimated 370,000 former mineworkers live in the Eastern Cape, giving the province one of the country’s largest concentrations of potential beneficiaries.

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Former KSD mayor Nyaniso Nelani.

Ex-KSD mayor, municipal manager ask NPA to drop fraud charges

Former King Sabata Dalindyebo mayor Nyaniso Nelani and municipal manager Ngamela Pakade have petitioned prosecutors to withdraw fraud charges against them arising from Nelani’s municipality-funded trip to an ANC rally in Durban.

  • Sikho Ntshobane
King Dalimvula Matanzima of Western Thembuland welcomes President Cyril Ramaphosa and his delegation to the Qamata Great Place in Cofimvaba on Monday. The delegation includes Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane, Cogta deputy minister Prince Zolile Burns-Ncamashe, Cogta MEC Zolile Williams and Chris Hani district municipality mayor Lusanda Sizani.

Ramaphosa arrives at Qamata Great Place to launch ANC volunteer drive

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has arrived at Qamata Great Place in Cofimvaba for the launch of the Chris Hani region volunteers drive in the Eastern Cape.

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GUNNED DOWN:

Businessman and ANC official shot dead in ‘targeted’ Qumbu attack

Party election candidate also wounded in pharmacy shooting on Saturday

  • Sikho Ntshobane
Kwa-Ntshunqe Junior Secondary principal Nomthendeleko Lajoboda said the school’s asbestos roofs leaked badly during heavy rains, severely affecting teaching and learning.
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Crumbling Eastern Cape schools being revamped, two years after landmark ruling

Two years after frustrated parents took premier Oscar Mabuyane and education MEC Fundile Gade to court over crumbling schools in Elliotdale, the Eastern Cape education department has announced a R146m programme to refurbish them.

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Entrepreneur Zine Madikwa has turned her family’s rural farm in Port St Johns into a growing juice business, producing a range of natural fruit and vegetable blends under the Eastdene Farms Fruit Juices brand.

Zine Madikwa turns mangoes into a thriving juice brand

Zine Madikwa once considered pursuing a career that would take her across the world as a flight attendant.

  • Sikho Ntshobane
Ingquza Hill Municipality has come under fire after it demolished hundreds of shacks in several informal settlements in Lusikisiki which it claims were built illegally on municipal land last week.
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Bitter row erupts over demolition of shacks in Lusikisiki

A bitter war of words has erupted between hundreds of shack dwellers in Lusikisiki and the Ingquza Hill municipality.

  • Sikho Ntshobane
Los Angeles-based Eastern Cape-born actor Theo Bongani Ndyalvane,44, is making strides in the world of movies and television in Hollywood.
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From small Eastern Cape town to Hollywood

Theo Bongani Ndyalvane chases his dream to become a Hollywood star

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UDM leader Bantu Holomisa, centre, at the party's provincial elective conference in Mthatha on Saturday.

No room for mediocrity ahead of elections, Holomisa tells delegates

UDM president Bantu Holomisa says the time for mediocrity is over, imploring delegates at his party’s Eastern Cape elective congress to ensure they elect people with the right character.

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A broken Andiswa Madakana-Spell from Willowvale has been unable to bury her dead daughter despite skeletal remains believed to of the missing young girl having been discovered and taken by the police in 2020.

Family unable to give daughter proper burial — nearly six years after murder

When skeletal remains believed to be those of her missing daughter were found in 2020, Willowvale mother Andiswa Madakana-Spell, 41, prayed that she would finally get closure.

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Farms between Humansdorp and St Francis Bay have been placed under quarantine after an outbreak of FMD was reported in the area
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Eastern Cape farmers warned of foot-and-mouth disease threat

MEC addresses hundreds of livestock owners after case confirmed in Keiskammahoek

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CREEPY CRAWLIES: The mysterious infestation of Port St Johns by millipedes has left experts stumped.
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Port St Johns hit by invasion of mysterious white millipedes

Environmental experts and specialists, including from Walter Sisulu University, have been dispatched to Port St Johns following an invasion of millipedes.

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