On July 26, 2013, at Uncle Tom’s Hall in Soweto—a site of resistance—the EFF was launched, vowing economic freedom in our ...

A former National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) prosecutor appeared in the Mthatha Specialised Commercial Crime Court on ...

Mzwanele Nyhontso says that traditional leaders have the power to improve the lives of the people they lead. The Land Reform and Rural Development Minister believes Abathembu King Buyelekhaya ...

Authorities say the death toll from severe floods that inundated parts of South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape province two weeks ago has risen to 101, with a 12-month-old baby the youngest fatality.

A resident looks through the remnants after floods swept through the area in Mthatha, South Africa, Thursday, June 12, 2025. Credit: AP/Themba Hadebe. By The Associated PressUpdated June 13, 2025.

Six armed suspects were killed in a shootout with police officers in the Eastern Cape. Police said the gun battle occurred on R61 between Mthatha and Ngcobo on Monday at about 5:30pm.

Mthatha High Court Judge Zamani Nhlangulela on Wednesday sentenced the two men to life imprisonment for each of the murders. They also got 15 years imprisonment for robbery and two years for each of ...

The Minister of Land Reform and Rural Development Honourable Mzwanele Nyhontso will meet with the AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo on Sunday, 20 July 2025.

The Mthatha Tactical Response Team (TRT) and OR Tambo District police have arrested a couple for being in possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition that were used for cash-in-transit ...

Mthatha UDM leader Wandile Tsipa told the M&G that Mthatha is facing a ”severe financial crisis”, but that the ANC is ”living in a state of denial”. ”The whole town is going to the dogs.

The Mthatha-based King Sabata Dalindyebo Municipality in the Eastern Cape has called on more airlines to join SA Express in servicing the Mthatha route to ensure increased competition and reduced ...

A few months ago, a 14-year-old pupil from Zingisa Comprehensive High School in Mthatha approached the CEO of the Nelson Mandela Museum and reminded him of what Madiba said about education. She ...