A new water feature has cropped up in Southernwood, although it seems to be entirely unintentional. If one were to drive up Gately Street, they would no doubt notice the new ‘lake’ has sprung up on the St David’s Road intersection. The…
BCM executive mayor Xola Pakati took part in a sod turning ceremony recently to launch the expansion project at Settlers Way and Military Road. According to a statement released by the municipality, the Settlers Way R72 becomes heavily…
Energy expert Chris Yelland says government has to fix the real problems at Eskom‚ not just throw money at the parastatal. Speaking to TimesLIVE on Monday‚ Yelland said the issue at hand was that Eskom’s finances were not healthy – the…
Eskom said on Friday that it did not anticipate load-shedding for the “most part” of the day after being forced to cut power to parts of the country for two hours on Thursday evening. The parastatal commenced with stage 1 load-shedding on…
Public hospitals have become a death-trap for the poor‚ says Refiloe Nt’sekhe of the Democratic Alliance. The party has produced this checklist of the top eight problems that it says require urgent intervention‚ following inspection…
Three of the seven state mental health facilities housing 1280 patients in the Eastern Cape do not have permanent psychiatrists. Eastern Cape health MEC Helen Sauls-August provided details about psychiatrists in a written reply to…
ATTENTION MOTORISTS The Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality would like to advise motorists of the ongoing upgrade to FLEET ST (R72). An additional phase of works will be the Oxford St and Fleet St Intersection. Please note there will…
Sixty-three people in informal settlements have been killed by illegal electricity connections in the Buffalo City (BCM) Metro in the past three years. The most recent case was in Mzamomhle on Wednesday when a 25-year-old man allegedly…
