EASTERN CAPE — Many villages in Ngcobo still lack running water despite the district municipality spending millions on water projects in the area. Many of these villages never had water, ...

Eastern Cape villagers without a bridge found a disturbing way to cope. Online users were disturbed by the village residents' ...

A broken water pipe has left a number of villages with no water for almost two weeks in Cofimvaba, Eastern Cape. The problem started on 22 July. GroundUp was in these villages from 26 to 31 July ...

Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. A broken water pipe has left a number of villages with no water for almost two weeks in ...

South Africa is home to certain places that feel untouched, like a secret that’s been hiding in plain sight. Take a ...

Zikhovane is a small village in the Eastern Cape. It starts on a mountain, above a tar road that links Komani (Queenstown) and Ngcobo, and then stretches on flat land in a thin line until it ...

An Eastern Cape village was hit by landslide ... Oliphant said approximately 3 000 people have been evacuated this week as floods and inclement weather rage in the Eastern Cape. 3 000 evacuated. ...

On 26 August this year, Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane held an imbizo at the national heritage site of Mqhekezweni Great Place. Police Minister Bheki Cele used the occasion to deliver two ...

More than 100 villages in the Ngqushwa area in the Eastern Cape rely on two ambulances. This has forced the hundreds of villagers serviced by the Nompumelelo hospital to resort to hiring private ...

A solution for many villages Upper Blinkwater is not an isolated case. In the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa alone, about 25 percent of rural villages are not connected to the electricity grid.