Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane has fired health MEC Sindiswa Gomba. Mabuyane announced he had fired Gomba at a news conference on Thursday. This was after she was released on R1,000 bail each by the East London magistrate’s court on…
Health MEC in the Eastern Cape Sindiswa Gomba has apologised for her utterances during an online briefing on the coronavirus in which she used the term ‘andidikwe’ — which, loosely translated, means ‘I am fed up’ or ‘irritated’ — saying…
Furious with the Eastern Cape government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic in Nelson Mandela Bay, health minister Zweli Mkhize has taken charge, sending a senior director to lead the tracing, screening and testing teams in the city. He…
Glen Grey Provincial Hospital nurses have refused to help coronavirus patients who were rushed from Cala to the hospital in Cacadu at the weekend. A video sent by nurses to DispatchLIVE shows staff standing outside the hospital building…
As the number of Covid-19 cases increased to 104 in the Eastern Cape, Nelson Mandela Bay has recorded its second death related to the global pandemic. This as the number of confirmed cases in the metro has risen to 51. Health MEC Sindiswa…
Nelson Mandela Bay has recorded its first Covid-19 death. Eastern Cape Health MEC Sindiswa Gomba confirmed that a retired nurse died in the early hours of Thursday morning at Livingstone Hospital. “We were hopeful her condition would…
The provincial government is scrambling to quarantine Eastern Cape’s Covid-19 patient one, who has been roaming around East London in defiance of the state’s containment measures. Tough-talking health MEC Sindiswa Gomba, who held a press…
The department of transport (DoT) recently handed over a fleet of new ambulances to the provincial government at a ceremony in Bhisho. Speaking at the event, DoT MEC Weziwe Tikana urged drivers to be careful on the roads and asked members…
Newly elected Eastern Cape premier Lubabalo Oscar Mabuyane announced the members of his executive council (MECs) at a meeting with the press on Tuesday afternoon and said there had been good work done by previous MECs led by a number of…
Plans to increase stipends of ward committees by more than 100% in the Buffalo City Metro have been delayed as the metro’s council is divided on whether to effect the increase or not. BCM wanted to increase its ward committee members’…
