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The dire state of health infrastructure and services in the Eastern Cape has made headlines during the COVID-19 pandemic and triggered promises of government intervention, but in some hospitals those …
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The expanded unemployment rate has shown just how deep the economic faultlines run underneath SA, after lockdown pumelled the job market.
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Eastern Cape artist, songwriter and producer Siviwe “Kimosabe” Nkanyuza has dropped an EP in his #SoulTember campaign. The 24-year-old musician released the seven-track EP on Friday, 25 September to …
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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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The number of pupils who tested positive for Covid-19 at an Eastern Cape school has risen from 98 to 102, with one teacher also testing positive. At the weekend, about 500 pupils at Ethembeni …
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Thirteen more fatalities related to Covid-19 were recorded on Sunday, bringing the death toll related to the pandemic to 15,953, the health ministry said. The Western Cape accounted for six of the …
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The Department of Basic Education in the Eastern Cape says the number of learners – to have tested positive for the coronavirus at Ethembeni High School in Burgersdorp – has risen to 102.
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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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The Department of Justice says an IT crash is to blame for beneficiaries not getting their maintenance payments during the Covid-19 lockdown. At least 622 of the 1,500 families affected by the IT …
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Eastern Cape universities are set to reopen in July and August. The universities will open gradually, as part of measures set out by the department of higher education & training to combat the spread …
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Benz pulled the covers off its advanced new S-Class, featuring an elegant new look and a dazzling array of features, and now it appears that the next-generation C-Class will inherit a lot of its …
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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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As part of StreetARToronto, local artists have turned bare stretches of walls and alleys into tributes to essential workers …
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Eastern Cape police on Thursday hailed the services of their search and rescue dog Misty, which managed to sniff out a man who had kidnapped his toddler and gone into hiding with her.
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Eastern Cape police have arrested one suspect and are searching for his two accomplices following a robbery at the Kareedouw Post Office.
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Quick Addo Fact: The flora within the AENP is quite varied, and like all plant life, is a central factor to the ecological system in place. Several species of rare and endemic plants, particularly succulent shrubs and geophytes are native to the South African region within the AENP. Many species are under environmental pressure, however, and are facing possible extinction.

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Jeetan Patel is hopeful of continuing in a role as England’s spin coach after he retires from playing and would relish a full-time position if it were available.
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The DA has not, and will not, lose sight of why we do what we do. Which is to offer hope, dignity and opportunity to South Africans through governments of the people, by the people and for the people.
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South Africa’s Naledi Boltina collaborates with award-winning Nigerian artist Ice Prince to celebrate black African love.
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo is home to the biggest dune fields in South Africa – In a lesser-known stretch of Addo, where the park meets the sea, there’s a great gathering of high and wide dunes known as the Alexandria Dune Field. This dune sea, as it’s also known, is the largest and least degraded of its kind in the whole southern hemisphere, stretching over 15 800 hectares, with its widest point being five kilometres from the sea. You can park your car at Woody Cape Backpackers and stroll along for ten minutes on the boardwalk and see the immense dune field from a beautiful viewpoint on the beach. Go and see the dunes when the coral trees are also in flower, from June to October, when they form a red blanket over the tree canopy.

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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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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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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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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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