Bhisho adopts controversial Matatiele report: Amid an outcry from rival parties, the Bhisho legislature has adopted a controversial report stating that most Matatiele townspeople want to remain under Eastern Cape governance and oppose a plan to return the province to KwaZulu-Natal’s administration.
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.
Majority of people in Matatiele want to remain in the EC: Bhisho told: The Bhisho legislature has today adopted a controversial report compiled by one of its committees which claims that majority of people in Matatiele want to remain in the Eastern Cape. This after a heated debate during a sitting to consider the report by …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.
ANC makes several changes to its Bhisho representation: The African National Congress (ANC) Caucus in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature at Bhisho on Tuesday welcomed the election of its new Chief Whip, Honourable Fundile Gade. “Honourable Gade joined the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature in 2014, and …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.
GroundUp: Eastern Cape students challenge Motshekga in court: Equal Education chose Qonce High School to hold a press briefing after filing papers in the Bhisho High Court to force Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga to act on the regulations for infrastructure in schools. By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik for GROUNDUP.
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.
“Glitch” with invoice delays R34 million Bhisho memorial centre: More than three years after construction started, the R34 million memorial to the 29 people who were shot dead in Bhisho in 1992 is still not complete. One reason for the delay is the failure by the Eastern Cape Department of Public Works to pay the site …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.
GroundUp: A South African shame – children held in adult prison for 200 days without access to visitors: All the applicants had originally been sentenced to a period of compulsory residence at the Bhisho Child and Youth Care Centre. However, what the Centre for Child Law found was that the youths had been detained in Mdantsane Correctional Centre …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.
SACP in Eastern Cape wants meeting with ANC after chief whip’s removal: The South African Communist Party (SACP) in the Eastern Cape has called for an urgent alliance meeting with the ANC in the province after the removal of Mzolile Mrara as the ANC’s chief whip in the Bhisho Legislature. Mrara‚ who is the SACP provincial …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.
Eastern Cape ANC leader Mabuyane sworn in to provincial legislature: ANC Eastern Cape provincial chairman Oscar Mabuyane and his deputy Mlungisi Mvoko are the newest members of the provincial legislature in Bhisho following their swearing-in on Monday morning. Mabuyane said they were ready to bring energy to the ANC caucus …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.
Bhisho, ANC fight Matatiele’s move to KZN: government and ANC agreed that the political bargaining between African Independent Congress (AIC) and Ekurhuleni Metro ANC for the latter to hold on to its coalition rule of that metro in exchange for a deal to move Matatiele out of the province was not …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.
Cost of living in: Monthly rent for a 45 m2 (480 Sqft) furnished studio in EXPENSIVE area R 25,000 Monthly rent for a 45 m2 (480 Sqft) furnished studio in NORMAL area R 10,000 Utilities 1 month (heating, electricity, gas …) for 1 person in 45 m2 (480 Sqft) studio R 1,500
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.
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