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Bhisho news: R5m hub for informal traders

16 December 2017 By Port Elizabethan

R5m hub for informal traders: Yesterday the traders told the Saturday Dispatch how they used nearby bushes to relieve themselves as there were no toilets anywhere near their businesses which cater for those working in Bhisho, workers from the surrounding Fort Jackson factories as well …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

EC initiation death toll increases: Health spokesman Sizwe Kupelo said an initiates from Ginsberg, in King William’s Town died at Bhisho Hospital. “The King William’s Town initiate was dehydrated and had an asthma attack,” said Kupelo. This is the first Buffalo City Metro initiation …
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.

South African Police Service: A 35-year-old female, Nyika Precious went missing from Bhisho Hospital on 02 December 2017 and she never returned home. It is alleged that Precious was admitted at Bhisho hospital for a scar in her head and she left the hospital without being discharged.
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.

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.

Coega sues Bhisho for R149m in fees: The Coega Development Corporation (CDC) is suing the Eastern Cape Department of Health for R149-million in fees for work it has done for Bhisho, alleging that the money was withheld because it refused to bend tender regulations. The dispute, according to …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

Bhisho, South Africa Hourly Weather: <img class=”styles-A54tP4F3__noscript__12c_l” src=”https://dsx.weather.com/util/image/w/126fire.jpg?v=at&w=320&h=180&api=7db9fe61-7414-47b5-9871-e17d87b8b6a0″ srcset=”undefined” > <img class=”styles-A54tP4F3__noscript__12c_l” src=”https://dsx …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

ANC at Bhisho analyzing Mkhwebane’s Mandela Funeral Funds findings: Commenting on the findings by Public Protector, Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane, that R300 million of public funds was irregularly and negligently spent during former president, Nelson Mandela’s funeral, the African National Congress (ANC) Caucus in the …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

Bhisho to respond next week to damning Public Protector Report on Madiba’s funeral: The Eastern Cape government said it would provide a comprehensive response next week to the Public Protector’s report on the misappropriation of money by the Bhisho government in the expenditure on the funeral of former President Nelson Mandela. Advocate …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

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