21: COUNTDOWN TO CATASTROPHE Plumbing teams’ midnight race to avert disaster in Nelson Mandela Bay 5 min 2 By Estelle Ellis
LOCKDOWN REPERCUSSIONS OP-ED Covid death rate in rural Eastern Cape far and away highest in South Africa 7 min 2 By Leslie Bank
GROUNDUP EDUCATION Eastern Cape schools in ‘worse state’ than almost a decade ago 10 min 0 By Mkhuseli Sizani and Mary-Anne Gontsana
LIFE ON THE EDGE Eastern Cape faces of hunger — one family’s struggle to survive 5 min 1 By Hoseya Jubase & Estelle Ellis
SPOTLIGHT Dire straits at E Cape’s All Saints Hospital as taps remain dry despite R57m allocation 5 min 0 By Siyabonga Kamnqa for Spotlight
GAS KAPITAL? Traditional leaders give Wild Coast seismic survey (and Mantashe) a king-size boost 4 min 5 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
EASTERN CAPE The intersection of gender and climate justice struggles in Xolobeni 3 min 0 By Zukiswa Pikoli
SPOTLIGHT Rural patients forced to endure fallout of EMS strike in Eastern Cape 7 min 0 By Luvuyo Mehlwana for Spotlight
WAR IN EUROPE From a township hospital in South Africa to the Ukraine border, an expat doctor has seen the trauma of poverty and now war 8 min 0 By Micah Reddy and Anastasia Levkova
INSECT PLAGUE Eastern Cape struck by worst locust infestation in 25 years, swathes of valuable grazing lost 5 min 0 By Tembile Sgqolana
ROAD TO ELECTIVE CONFERENCE Mabuyane endorses Ramaphosa after ANC Eastern Cape leadership race victory 4 min 0 By Queenin Masuabi
RIGHT TO LEARN OP-ED Eastern Cape judgment reaffirms that textbooks and stationery are essential to basic education 6 min 0 By Mila Harding and Zahraa Motani
ROAD TO ELECTIVE CONFERENCE ANC Eastern Cape Rubusana region takes party to court over ‘illegitimate’ members 3 min 0 By Queenin Masuabi
ROAD TO ELECTIVE CONFERENCE Critical moment for Ramaphosa’s ‘renewal’ agenda and future as ANC elects Eastern Cape leadership 5 min 2 By Carien du Plessis and Queenin Masuabi
EXTREME WEATHER Eastern Cape farmers take stock after devastation caused by floods 4 min 0 By Tembile Sgqolana
GROUNDUP HOSTAGE CRISIS Immigrants fear for lives as kidnapping for ransom spikes in Eastern Cape 4 min 0 By Johnnie Isaac
LIGHTS OUT Eastern Cape’s Komani braces for bleak winter of power failures 3 min 0 By Tembile Sgqolana
SPOTLIGHT EC youth need better sex education, user-friendly clinics and easier access to contraception to prevent HIV and teen pregnancies 6 min 0 By Luvuyo Mehlwana for Spotlight
GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE Eastern Cape teenager hospitalised after rape, stabbing and mutilation 2 min 0 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
