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Additional information: Six more bales of dagga found in Swartkops – Kirkwood

Media Statement South African Police Service Office of the Provincial Commissioner Eastern Cape EASTERN CAPE – A further six bales of dagga was confiscated by SAPS Swartkops members at about 05:00 …
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Starc, who bagged a USD 1.8 million (Rs 9.4 crore) contract with KKR ahead of the 2018 IPL, couldn’t play a single match due to a right leg injury.
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The artist’s latest exhibition uses the power and politics of stained glass and tapestry to comment on society’s exclusions, create joy and console the grieving.
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Quick Addo Fact: Marine protected areas – The Addo Elephant National Park Marine Protected Area and Bird Island Marine Protected Area are associated with the park.

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S. African national parks to open for overnight accommodation – Addo

File photo shows a view of the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, 320 kilometers south of Johannesburg, South Africa. (Xinhua/Yuan Ye) South African National Parks will from Aug. 14 be open for …
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Ngubane has published the amended Risk Adjusted Strategy for Tourism Facilities, Services and Products to include the regulations for Guided Tour Operators which includes Overland Safari Vehicle (OSV) …
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo features a main camp, featuring a swimming pool, restaurant, flood lit water hole and various accommodation, four other rest camps and four camps run by concessionaires. The main entrance as well as two looped tourist roads in the park are tarred while the others are graveled. There is also an additional access road through the southern block of the park feeding off the N2 highway near Colchester; it joins up with the existing tourist roads in the park.

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Claims continue to pay out for those affected by Covid-19 – Dept of labour – Kirkwood

The department appeals to companies to ensure all necessary precautions are taken to safeguard the lives of workers in the workplace.
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Download a sound clip from DA Eastern Cape Shadow MEC for Education, Yusuf Cassim, in English. This once against illustrates that the Eastern Cape is not only the epicientre of the Coronavirus, but …
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Police are investigating an inquest docket after two neighbour’s pitbulls attacked and killed a three-year-old toddler in Kirkwood on Wednesday afternoon. It is alleged three-year-old Charl Baartman …
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo is a beautiful biodiversity hotspot – Our entire country can be divided into just nine biomes (a unique ecological unit with a characteristic set of plant, animal species and climate) and Addo stretches over five of these biomes, namely the Thicket, Forest, Succulent Karoo, Fynbos and Nama Karoo, and each biome has its own sets of key species. The big goal for the park is now to consolidate the land it has and create a functional ecological unit that stretches from the Karoo all across the mountains, fynbos, forest into the thicket and down across the coastal dune system. This diversity is key to its success. Conservation Manager John Adendorff says, ‘Addo is one of the most profitable parks. There’s nothing that even comes close for its size. It runs at 98% occupancy and there are very few spikes in the year, so it’s just consistent. It’s fully booked all the time and a very difficult place to get into.’

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Urgent life support needed for critically injured health system

The Eastern Cape health department remains in complete disarray and no one will assume any responsibility for it. Despite its almost complete collapse under the weight of the Covid-19 pandemic, health …
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Eastern Cape health MEC Sindiswa Gomba’s personal messenger and Buffalo City municipality ANC Youth League regional task team member Ayanda Matinise has been granted R5,000 bail by the King William’s …
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Justice Minister Ronald Lamola has ordered an investigation into the MojaPay system glitch that led to the non-payment and duplications of maintenance payments to beneficiaries in KwaZulu-Natal and …
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Quick Addo Fact: The original Addo Elephant Park was expanded to include the Woody Cape Nature Reserve that extends from the Sundays River mouth towards Alexandria and a marine reserve, which includes St. Croix Island and Bird Island, both breeding habitat for gannets and penguins, not to mention a large variety of other marine life. Bird Island is home to the world’s largest breeding colony of gannets – about 120,000 birds – and also hosts the second largest breeding colony of African penguins, the largest breeding colony being St. Croix island. These marine assets form part of the plan to expand the 1,640 km² Addo National Elephant Park into the 3,600 km² Greater Addo Elephant National Park. The expansion will mean not only that the park contains five of South Africa’s seven major vegetation zones (biomes), but also that it will be the only park in the world to house Africa’s “Big 7“ (elephant, rhinoceros, lion, buffalo, leopard, whale and great white shark) in their natural habitat.

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SANParks Airwing among those honoured at Rhino Conservation Awards

SANParks’ Kruger National Park Airwing has been named as the Best Conservation Practitioner at the annual Rhino Conservation Awards announced on Friday 31 July to coincide with World Ranger Day. The …
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Minister says efforts are paying off, with lockdown and increased law enforcement efforts cutting rhino deaths to 166 to date.
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Quick Addo Fact: Largest Breeding Colony of African Penguins. Addo Elephant National Park’s St Croix Island protects the world’s largest breeding ground of the endangered African Penguins.

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Mketeni said SANParks is likely to implement some additional visitor management procedures to ease entry into the parks and further mitigate the risk of the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus.
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The South African National Parks (SANParks) has welcomed the announcement by the Tourism Minister on the relaxation of travel and leisure regulations.
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However, we are obligated to ensure that the opening of our national parks for accommodation is done under the strictest health protocols to safeguard both our staff and guests,” said SANParks CEO …
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo Elephant National Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park situated close to Port Elizabeth in South Africa and is one of the country’s 20 national parks. It currently ranks third in size after Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. The original section of the park was founded in 1931, in part due to the efforts of Sydney Skaife, in order to provide a sanctuary for the eleven remaining elephants in the area. The park has proved to be very successful and currently houses more than 600 elephants and a large number of other mammals.

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SA National Parks has issued a tender for the culling more than 2,600 animals in six of its 19 national parks.
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo is a beautiful biodiversity hotspot – Our entire country can be divided into just nine biomes (a unique ecological unit with a characteristic set of plant, animal species and climate) and Addo stretches over five of these biomes, namely the Thicket, Forest, Succulent Karoo, Fynbos and Nama Karoo, and each biome has its own sets of key species. The big goal for the park is now to consolidate the land it has and create a functional ecological unit that stretches from the Karoo all across the mountains, fynbos, forest into the thicket and down across the coastal dune system. This diversity is key to its success. Conservation Manager John Adendorff says, ‘Addo is one of the most profitable parks. There’s nothing that even comes close for its size. It runs at 98% occupancy and there are very few spikes in the year, so it’s just consistent. It’s fully booked all the time and a very difficult place to get into.’

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Lack of oxygen ‘critical situation’ for fight against Covid-19 in Eastern Cape

If the Eastern Cape is to weather the coronavirus storm and save as many lives as possible while the province battles the peak of the pandemic, ambulances will play an even more crucial role and will …
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Quick Addo Fact: More than 600 elephants, 400 Cape buffaloes, over 48 endangered black rhinos (Diceros bicornis michaeli) as well as a variety of antelope species. Lion and spotted hyena have also recently been re-introduced to the area. The largest remaining population of the flightless dung beetle (Circellium bacchus) is located within the park.

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England vs West Indies: Former English captain Andrew Strauss terms Ollie Pope a ‘real find’ for the team – Kirkwood

Former skipper Andrew Strauss feels Ollie Pope has been a “real find” for England and he has the capability of succeeding in all formats of the game.After failing to breach the 15-run mark in the …
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Andrew Strauss says Ollie Pope’s impressive performance showcased his perfect technique on day one of the third Test. Ollie Pope is “a real find” for England who could go on to establish himself in …
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Eastern Cape education MEC Fundile Gade has defended his department’s leasing of 55,000 tablet devices for R404.8m for three years, describing uproar over the tender as “ongoing noise”. The department …
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Quick Addo Fact: You can also see super pods of dolphins – Algoa Bay has been named as the bottlenose dolphin capital of the world after photograph proof and scientific studies showed that an estimated population of 28 482 individuals make use of these waters, making it the largest along the South African coastline.

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The Educators Union of South Africa (EUSA) alleges that money meant for PPEs for students and teachers is being looted through corrupt tenders given at exaggerated prices by the department of basic …
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Of these, 400 were from the Eastern Cape. The health department counts a total of just under 6,000 Covid-19 deaths so far, 1,345 of these from the Eastern Cape. But these are grim underestimates …
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One Eastern Cape nurse has taken to writing a letter to Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, pleading for PPE, proper management, and some kind of empathy as the province’s healthcare system collapses. The …
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Quick Addo Fact: Spekboom is a superhero. Spekboom is prolific in the main game area of Addo and helps to sustain the Addo Elephant Park’s hearty population of over 600 elephants. The succulent spekboom regenerates quickly so the landscape doesn’t look devastated as it does in Kruger due to destructive elephant feeding. The plant is so good at converting carbon dioxide that ten hectares of spekboom would equal taking 25 cars off the road for a year. There are also places where the precious thicket opens up revealing wide plains of game with pinpricks of zebra in the distance and bigger blobs of eland. 79% of the park is covered in subtropical thicket and it is especially concentrated in the main game area. It may look uniform, but the subtropical thicket contains 112 different vegetation types and is comprised of 1 558 plant species – 322 of these species (20%) are endemic and found nowhere else.

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West Rand DJ spins the discs of hope

Luyanda Gqoba, who goes by the stage name DJ Mabheka has evolved to mastering the art and skill of combining different sets of musical elements and sound so beautifully. DJ Mabheka was born in …
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The Eastern Cape Department of Education has confirmed that one of its personal protective equipment (PPE) suppliers, Mkhiva Trading, has been found to be delivering sub-par hand sanitisers.
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This is according to National Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize, who noted that while the Western Cape and Eastern Cape’s cases were stabilising, KZN is expected to take over from Gauteng with a surge …
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo Elephant National Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park situated close to Port Elizabeth in South Africa and is one of the country’s 20 national parks. It currently ranks third in size after Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. The original section of the park was founded in 1931, in part due to the efforts of Sydney Skaife, in order to provide a sanctuary for the eleven remaining elephants in the area. The park has proved to be very successful and currently houses more than 600 elephants and a large number of other mammals.

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The provinces with some of the highest confirmed infection rates — Gauteng and the Eastern Cape — are experiencing a particularly sharp increase. Compared with the predicted number of natural deaths …
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For each bottle a consumer returns, they get a R9 deposit, meaning if it costs R20, a consumer will ultimately only pay R11.
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(Bloomberg) — The official number of deaths linked to Covid-19 in South Africa doesn’t reflect the true scale of the crisis, with provinces that have been hit hardest by the outbreak showing a surge …
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo is the only national park where you can hire a guide to take you around the park in your own car – A hop-on guide means that you drive and he guides, advising which routes to take and providing insight on Addo history, wildlife, botany and more. At the moment, there is only one hop-on guide in the park, but they are looking for more.

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Hunger has doubled since lockdown, says a new survey. This is because of job losses, which have especially hit women and low-paid workers. It is the worst hunger in 28 years, says the Gift of the …
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Citrus growers in the Eastern Cape’s Gamtoos Valley are back at a 20% water use quota, after a year of functioning at 85% of their allocation. Like two years ago, an 80% restriction is …
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A Parliamentary Committee said it was concerned about the apparent disconnect between a report from the Eastern Cape Government on its fight against Covid19 and what is being experienced on the ground …
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Quick Addo Fact: Massive Reintroduction of Historical Species. Many species that historically lived in the have been successfully reintroduced to the park including lion, hyena, cheetah and mountain zebra.

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Police investigating after Cecil John Rhodes statue decapitated in Cape Town – Addo

A criminal case has been opened after the statue of Cecil Rhodes was found beheaded at a monument on the slopes of Table Mountain.
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Three people have declined to serve on a government panel. That’s not exactly news. But, given who they are and the panel on to which they were invited, their refusal has exposed major fault lines in …
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The head of the 19th century colonialist has been chopped off from a bust at Rhodes Memorial on the slopes of Table Mountain, park rangers said on Tuesday.
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Quick Addo Fact: Unique Vegetation and Longest Dunes in Southern Hemisphere. The park is also unique in that it protects an immense array of vegetation, which stretches from the semi-arid Karoo to rugged mountains, through river valleys and all the way down to a wild coastline with the longest dunes in the southern hemisphere.

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Without state custodianship there will never be equitable redistribution of land – Addo

Due to SA’s cruel history of barbaric racism that was underpinned by the colonial dispossession of land from the black majority, state custodianship is the only rational and logical option towards …
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo Elephant National Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park situated close to Port Elizabeth in South Africa and is one of the country’s 20 national parks. It currently ranks third in size after Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. The original section of the park was founded in 1931, in part due to the efforts of Sydney Skaife, in order to provide a sanctuary for the eleven remaining elephants in the area. The park has proved to be very successful and currently houses more than 600 elephants and a large number of other mammals.

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The Cape of Good Hope has been opened up to visitors for self-drive excursion. However, strict regulations will apply and no more than 75 vehicles will be allowed in.
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Quick Addo Fact: Tourism – In 2018 the highest visitor count in the park’s 87-year history was recorded. The park received 305,510 visitors between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2018 (up from 265,585 in the previous year). International visitors make up 55% of this number, with German, Dutch and British nationals in the majority.

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The protesting staff members from the old age home were led by NEHAWU and demanded that the institution be fumigated and provided with PPE.
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ANC councillor Gamelihleli Maqula laid fraud and corruption complaints against ousted acting city manager Noxolo Nqwazi on Thursday. The complaints were laid at the Humewood police station after …
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Medical staff members inquire about a patient at a quarantine and isolation center in Johannesburg, South Africa, July 3, 2020. (Xinhua/Yeshiel) South African military’s health personnel have deployed …
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Quick Addo Fact: Spekboom is a superhero. Spekboom is prolific in the main game area of Addo and helps to sustain the Addo Elephant Park’s hearty population of over 600 elephants. The succulent spekboom regenerates quickly so the landscape doesn’t look devastated as it does in Kruger due to destructive elephant feeding. The plant is so good at converting carbon dioxide that ten hectares of spekboom would equal taking 25 cars off the road for a year. There are also places where the precious thicket opens up revealing wide plains of game with pinpricks of zebra in the distance and bigger blobs of eland. 79% of the park is covered in subtropical thicket and it is especially concentrated in the main game area. It may look uniform, but the subtropical thicket contains 112 different vegetation types and is comprised of 1 558 plant species – 322 of these species (20%) are endemic and found nowhere else.

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EC ‘in the middle of Covid-19 crisis’ – Mabuyane

Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane has warned that the province has reached it’s Covid-19 peak and has pleaded with residents to rather stay at home.
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The coronavirus crisis has worsened in the Eastern Cape, as pupils in Grades R, 6 and 11 have been told to stay away from school on Monday.
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The Eastern Cape department of education says schools will not open for three grades on Monday, as was announced by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga last week. Grades R, 6 and 11 returned to …
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Quick Addo Fact: Happy Elephants – Guides in Addo don’t carry firearms because these elephants are some of the gentlest in the country. They don’t feel threatened around cars and even in musth pose little threat – that said tourists should never get too close as it makes an elephant feel threatened, rather give them space and park the car a little away. More often than not, the ellies will come to you. A large majority – rumoured to be around 90 percent – of the female elephants in Addo have no tusks. Bull elephants were introduced from Kruger to the widen genetic pool, so tusks are becoming more common.

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An argument between two taxi “guardjies” ended with one of the men being stabbed to death in Port Elizabeth on Saturday morning. According to the police, Roland Tobias, 40, and the 23-year-old accused …
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Military Health Service has deployed doctors, nurses and operational emergency care practitioners to the Eastern Cape to help the province’s overwhelmed public hospitals. The military medical team was …
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These excess deaths occurred mostly in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape, two of the regions hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the number of deaths from natural causes of persons under …
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Quick Addo Fact: Unique Vegetation and Longest Dunes in Southern Hemisphere. The park is also unique in that it protects an immense array of vegetation, which stretches from the semi-arid Karoo to rugged mountains, through river valleys and all the way down to a wild coastline with the longest dunes in the southern hemisphere.

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New business council for Eastern Cape – Kirkwood

The proliferation of voices from chambers and other organisations that purport to represent Eastern Cape businesses have not served their members well, often due to being compromised by the inability …
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Parent24 spoke to two single working mothers, who are both cleaners at schools in the Eastern Cape, about their experiences of working through the pandemic. Mama Miriam, 33, and Mama Sindy, 42, are …
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The National Health Laboratory Service has terminated the services of Gibela Trade and Invest with immediate effect.
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo is the only national park where you can hire a guide to take you around the park in your own car – A hop-on guide means that you drive and he guides, advising which routes to take and providing insight on Addo history, wildlife, botany and more. At the moment, there is only one hop-on guide in the park, but they are looking for more.

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Rhino Conservation Awards Finalists Announced – Addo

The finalists for the prestigious 2020 Rhino Conservation Awards have been announced. The winners will be celebrated in a virtual event on World Ranger Day on 31 July. These conservation heroes …
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Judges for this year’s Rhino Conservation Awards on Wednesday released the names of the finalists in each category ahead of the virtual ceremony on July 31.
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Quick Addo Fact: Most Diverse Game Park – Addo Elephant National Park is said to be the most diverse game park on Earth. The area includes five biomes – Karoo, grassland, fynbos, thicket and forest.

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Mkhize must place Eastern Cape Health under administration or accept responsibility for preventable deaths

Over the past few weeks, we have seen a systemic collapse of the Eastern Cape health system which has placed thousands of lives in mortal danger. That is why the Democratic Alliance (DA) had written …
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My mother has died and we don’t know how to tell my father, who is fighting for his life in hospital, that she is no more.” …
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The Eastern Cape Health Department says an investigation is underway into the discovery of coronavirus test kits allegedly dumped on the N2 between East London and King Williams Town.
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Quick Addo Fact: Tourism – In 2018 the highest visitor count in the park’s 87-year history was recorded. The park received 305,510 visitors between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2018 (up from 265,585 in the previous year). International visitors make up 55% of this number, with German, Dutch and British nationals in the majority.

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The war against Gender Based Violence is gaining momentum as the Eastern Cape Police have pounced on five (5) suspects believed to have masterminded the kidnapping and subsequent murder of the 51-year …
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The former husband of an Eastern Cape woman who was abducted and murdered in Qumbu earlier this month is among five people arrested for the crime.
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A further 48 Covid-19-related deaths have been reported – eight from the Eastern Cape and 40 from the Western Cape – Health Minister Zweli Mkhize reported on Friday.
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Quick Addo Fact: Massive Reintroduction of Historical Species. Many species that historically lived in the have been successfully reintroduced to the park including lion, hyena, cheetah and mountain zebra.

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It’s a whole hostel of problems in the Eastern Cape

The infection of 204 people at a school hostel in the Eastern Cape this week is the latest in a litany of troubles that have plagued the province since Covid-19 came calling …
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Nine years ago, in a small Eastern Cape village, a 14-year-old girl was put into a taxi by her cruel aunt Zukiswa Bangi to be sold into a life of rape and abuse as a child bride under the twisted …
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The next round of Miss South Africa contenders have been announced and two young women from the Eastern Cape have been placed among the top 15. Aphelele Mbiyo, 24, and third-time entrant Melissa …
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Quick Addo Fact: The original Addo Elephant Park was expanded to include the Woody Cape Nature Reserve that extends from the Sundays River mouth towards Alexandria and a marine reserve, which includes St. Croix Island and Bird Island, both breeding habitat for gannets and penguins, not to mention a large variety of other marine life. Bird Island is home to the world’s largest breeding colony of gannets – about 120,000 birds – and also hosts the second largest breeding colony of African penguins, the largest breeding colony being St. Croix island. These marine assets form part of the plan to expand the 1,640 km² Addo National Elephant Park into the 3,600 km² Greater Addo Elephant National Park. The expansion will mean not only that the park contains five of South Africa’s seven major vegetation zones (biomes), but also that it will be the only park in the world to house Africa’s “Big 7“ (elephant, rhinoceros, lion, buffalo, leopard, whale and great white shark) in their natural habitat.

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