Bhisho bids to end AbaThembu royal row: The Eastern Cape government will meet with the AbaThembu nation at Bumbane Great Place near Mthatha tomorrow to discuss the nation’s royal succession. The meeting, scheduled to start at 10am, was called by cooperative governance and traditional affairs ... Source: "Bhisho" - BingNews. … [Read more...] about Bhisho news: Bhisho bids to end AbaThembu royal row
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Bhisho news: Former spy feels left in cold
Former spy feels left in cold: A former spy who claims to have exposed the source of a smear campaign that accused various members of the Bhisho legislature of embezzlement, corruption, bribery and fraud in 2001 has been left out in the cold. Mxolosi Dyani, a former spy, who claims to ... Source: "Bhisho" - BingNews. … [Read more...] about Bhisho news: Former spy feels left in cold
Bhisho news: Former spy feels left in cold
Former spy feels left in cold: A former spy who claims to have exposed the source of a smear campaign that accused various members of the Bhisho legislature of embezzlement, corruption, bribery and fraud in 2001 has been left out in the cold. Mxolosi Dyani, a former spy, who claims to ... Source: "Bhisho" - BingNews. … [Read more...] about Bhisho news: Former spy feels left in cold
Bhisho news: Court battle looms over new NMB city boss
Court battle looms over new NMB city boss: The mess over the Nelson Mandela Bay city manager position just got a whole lot messier. The saga is heading for the mother of all showdowns between Bhisho and the municipality, as Eastern Cape Cooperative Governance MEC Fikile Xasa insists that the post ... Source: "Bhisho" - BingNews. … [Read more...] about Bhisho news: Court battle looms over new NMB city boss
Bhisho news: Dispute brews over strays
Dispute brews over strays: Currently BCM pays R10000 monthly towards a pound for large animals in East London and R6600 to King William’s Town SPCA for three pounds – the large animal pounds in Bhisho and KWT and a pound for small animals in King. Source: "Bhisho" - BingNews. … [Read more...] about Bhisho news: Dispute brews over strays
Bhisho news: ‘Poor planning’ a setback for Cacadu schools
‘Poor planning’ a setback for Cacadu schools: The Bhisho Legislature’s education portfolio committee has expressed shock at the state of readiness of schools in the Cacadu district. Led by chairman Mxolisi Dimaza, the committee met education stakeholders and parents in the district offices in Cacadu ... Source: "Bhisho" - BingNews. … [Read more...] about Bhisho news: ‘Poor planning’ a setback for Cacadu schools
Bhisho news: Bhisho balks at plan for metro change
Bhisho balks at plan for metro change: Plans by mayor Athol Trollip to have nine additional full-time councillors in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality will incur “huge unnecessary costs” – money that could be pumped into services. This is according to Eastern Cape Cooperative Governance ... Source: "Bhisho" - BingNews. Slow jobs-for-sex report angers union: Managers at the Bhisho local municipality, who were implicated in the report, tried unsuccessfully to have the courts block the … [Read more...] about Bhisho news: Bhisho balks at plan for metro change
Bhisho news: Community counts cost of recent heavy storms
Community counts cost of recent heavy storms: The municipality on Thursday sent a preliminary report to the provincial disaster management centre within the cooperative governance and traditional affairs department in Bhisho. “We now have to compile a comprehensive report to both the provincial and ... Source: "Bhisho" - BingNews. Matric: How to get it wrong: Bhisho - Eastern Cape education authorities are blaming ill-disciplined pupils in two of the country’s worst performing districts … [Read more...] about Bhisho news: Community counts cost of recent heavy storms
Bhisho news: EC still at bottom of 2016 class
EC still at bottom of 2016 class: Reacting to the news, education portfolio committee head at the Bhisho legislature Fundile Gade said what was commendable “is the fact that the province is one of those which registered improvements”. “I understand that four provinces, including ... Source: "Bhisho" - BingNews. … [Read more...] about Bhisho news: EC still at bottom of 2016 class
Bhisho news: NGOs call on Masualle to release report on sex for jobs scandal
NGOs call on Masualle to release report on sex for jobs scandal: The investigation was initiated by Nehawu after its members in the Bhisho Legislature and the Department of Cooperative Governance reported the allegations to the union. Nehawu provincial chairperson, Mickey Jaceni says they have been patiently waiting for ... Source: "Bhisho" - BingNews. … [Read more...] about Bhisho news: NGOs call on Masualle to release report on sex for jobs scandal
Bhisho news: Bhisho’s tardy pay puts jobs at risk
Bhisho’s tardy pay puts jobs at risk: Millions of rands owed by Bhisho to contractors who have built low-cost housing for the Eastern Cape department of human settlements have plunged them into financial distress. As a result hundreds of workers had a bleak festive season without pay, and face ... Source: "Bhisho" - BingNews. … [Read more...] about Bhisho news: Bhisho’s tardy pay puts jobs at risk
Bhisho news: The animals are dying‚ the dams have dried up – worst drought in 30 years grips Eastern Cape villages
The animals are dying‚ the dams have dried up - worst drought in 30 years grips Eastern Cape villages: The crisis is unfolding less than 50km from the province’s capital‚ Bhisho. Residents say more than 50 cattle have died in 10 villages in the last three months from starvation and dehydration. Tamarha administrative area appears lifeless‚ with dry ... Source: "Bhisho" - BingNews. … [Read more...] about Bhisho news: The animals are dying‚ the dams have dried up – worst drought in 30 years grips Eastern Cape villages
Bhisho news: Bodies pile up at East Cape mortuaries
Bodies pile up at East Cape mortuaries: “In 2014, we had over 100 unnatural deaths. “In Butterworth at present, we have 70 bodies, at Woodbrook in East London31, and in Bhisho 38,” he said. Kupelo said the majority of the victims had been stabbed to death. Authorities have attributed the ... Source: "Bhisho" - BingNews. Drought takes its toll in 15 villages: Residents have no water to drink, animals are dying in numbers and dams are parched. The villages are less than 50km from Bhisho. … [Read more...] about Bhisho news: Bodies pile up at East Cape mortuaries
Bhisho news: ‘Targeted’ EC cooperative governance official vows court fight over firing
‘Targeted’ EC cooperative governance official vows court fight over firing: This is alleged to have happened at the time she was the department’s head of department. The former top Bhisho official had been suspended based on a report. “It’s a vendetta. Yes‚ I am being targeted‚” said Hackula. She further said ... Source: "Bhisho" - BingNews. Month-long nightmare for couple who hired nanny who kidnapped their child and demanded R500 000 ransom: Ndlovu appealed against the sentence in the high … [Read more...] about Bhisho news: ‘Targeted’ EC cooperative governance official vows court fight over firing
Bhisho news: Long-time Bhisho senior official fired by premier
Long-time Bhisho senior official fired by premier: Premier Phumulo Masualle has fired his longest-serving accounting officer, Bea Hackula, after the superintendent-general in the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs was first served with a letter of suspension in April. Premier’s ... Source: "Bhisho" - BingNews. Politician and PE school principal almost come to blows over demand for R530 ‘donation’: African National Congress MPL Christian Martin and Astra Primary … [Read more...] about Bhisho news: Long-time Bhisho senior official fired by premier
