The Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth has suspended lectures yesterday due to student protests. Protesters blocked off the entrances to the campus with tyres and debris over a lack of security. The students said there has been a high rate of crime on campus including rape and violent assault. There were also reports of..
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The African way! If you don’t get what you want, just toi-toi! Unruly students blocked off the entrances to the Nelson Mandela University with tyres and debris
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Shack dwellers from squatter camp caused chaos after been defrauded of over R150 000 for plots – burning tyres and stones where the order of the day – nothing new for sunny SA?
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Chaos erupted in Motherwell on Thursday when residents of Endlovini informal settlement, Port Elizabeth, said they had been defrauded of over R150,000 by community committee members. They burnt tyres, blew whistles, and closed the busy Uitenhage Road. Ward 54 Councillor Morgan Tshaka (ANC) met about 200 angry residents. They told him households had each paid..
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Violent protest action on N2 at Plettenberg Bay leaves woman seriously injured and fighting for her life when a brick was thrown through vehicle’s passenger-side window
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A 56-year old woman from Port Elizabeth is fighting for her life in the George Medi-Clinic in the Southern Cape, after suffering severe head injuries during violent protest action on the N-2 at Plettenberg Bay on Wednesday. Haydee de Doncker and her husband were travelling back home from their vacation in Gouritsmond when a brick..
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A well known Afrikaans singer dies in car accident – Eastern Cape
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Afrikaans singer Jacques De Coning dies in a car accident 24 minutes ago Thinus Ferreira share this Jacques De Coning (Photo: Facebook). Afrikaans singer Jacques De Coning died in a car accident on Sunday morning in the Eastern Cape. Netwerk24 first reported the singer’s death on Sunday afternoon, citing a car accident on the R72..
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Woman need to sharpen up their security while they are home alone, trust no one:- woman strangled, stabbed in the chest by her gardener (Port Elizabeth)
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Port Elizabeth woman attacked by the gardener. Mount Road Cluster Trio Task team worked around the clock to secure the arrest of a 23-year-old man allegedly suspected of attacking a 27-year-old woman at a business premises in Kragga Kamma on 1 April 2019. At about 12:30, the complainant was in the office at a business..
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Wife of South Africa’s ambassador to Germany was found guilty of 15 counts of fraud and nine counts of money laundering
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Portia Sizani, wife of South Africa’s ambassador to Germany and former African National Congress Chief Whip Stone Sizani, was found guilty of 15 counts of fraud and nine counts of money laundering in the Port Elizabeth Commercial Crimes Court on Friday. Sizani defrauded the Eastern Cape education department out of more than R1.2 million by..
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Port Elizabeth’s New Sh*thole – SAPS Barracks at Mount Road reflects sad reflection of ANC-regime incapability to reign SA
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Rats the size of cats, thousands of cockroaches, maggots, broken toilets and urine being thrown out of the windows are among the disgusting findings at the police residential quarters in Port Elizabeth. Some of these squalid conditions at the Mount Road police station barracks were witnessed first-hand during a tour of the building on Tuesday…
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Cheeky Watson pleads ‘not guilty’ to charges of fraud and money laundering
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Former Eastern Province Rugby Union (EPRU) president Cheeky Watson has pleaded ‘not guilty’ to charges of fraud and money laundering. The trial got underway on Tuesday. According to the HeraldLIVE website, Watson says he was unaware of any fraudulent activities and that he did not know that anything was wrong when Nadia Gerwel, a former..
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SA sold out to China, infested with Chinese and they are definitely taking over – 13th Chinese community and Police cooperation centre opened in PE
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The Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Liziwe Ntshinga was among many dignitaries attending the opening of the new Chinese Community and Police Cooperation Centre and the 3rd term opening of the Chinese language training programme in Port Elizabeth on the afternoon of 28 October 2018. This is the 13th centre to be opened nationally by the..
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Clinic in Port Elizabeth temporary shutdown due to gang violence
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A group of residents in Helenvale, Port Elizabeth, shut down their local clinic on Wednesday fearing for the safety of staff and patients after ongoing gang activity in the area.
Community members say Helenvale Clinic has been repeatedly targeted by criminals, who recently stole the air-conditioner.
As a result, the Helenvale Clinic committee decided to temporarily close the clinic and move equipment to Malabar Clinic, about three kilometres away.
“We had to take this decision after recent events that involved ongoing serious crime and shootings around the clinic,” said a member of the Helenvale Clinic committee, who asked not to be named for fear of being targeted. She said staff morale is low and that the six nurses who work at the clinic are overburdened and fearful.
“We were given permission by the Eastern Cape Health Department to use the premises at Malabar Clinic as a temporary measure,” she said.
On Wednesday evening the Department of Hea
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Do the coalition between the ANC and EFF holds a threat towards the people of South-Africa?
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The coalition between the ANC and the EFF in Port Elizabeth is the biggest threat to South Africa right now. That is what DA leader Mmusi Maimane claimed on Sunday in Johannesburg. He was speaking at a media briefing following the party’s final federal council meeting of the year. “The coalition that has been formed..
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Nelson Mandela Bay’s budget is being allocated to poor areas – Could it be true and will poor white communities also benefit?
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The mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, including Port Elizabeth, announced that the total budget of the city will be allocated to poor areas. It follows after Athol Trollip was removed as mayor and Mongameli Bobani took over his position. The DA is currently working on a court application to fight Trollip’s removal. Read..
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‘I humbly apologise to the baboon’: Woman lives in fear after slur against new NMB mayor
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A Port Elizabeth woman who called new mayor Mongameli Bobani a baboon on Wednesday sobbed as she said she did not know what had come over her when she posted the offensive slur on Facebook. Gretchen November told HeraldLIVE she regretted the post, which has since been deleted but not before it was shared mutliple..
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Co-author of controversial book “The lost boys of Bird Island” found dead – is this pure coincidence?
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Mark Minnie, former policeman and author of the controversial book :” The lost boys of Bird Island” is dead. Media 24 and other news sources report that Minnie’s body was found near Port Elizabeth early Monday morning. “No foul play is suspected and an inquest was opened.” Minnie’s book caused an uproar when it was..
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PE cyclist attacked with a plank while cycling in Walmer
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A Port Elizabeth cyclist was left battered and bleeding on the side of the road after he was ambushed, hit over the head with a plank and robbed at the weekend.
The early morning attack, on Saturday at about 5am, took place when businessman Graham Munton, 57, was cycling on Heugh Road towards 6th Avenue in Walmer.
He was cycling from his home in Lovemore Heights.
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