The Dispatch this week exposed how children who are now required to attend school far from home face stark choices. They can try to negotiate an unbearably long, unsafe walk to school or find a place to rent in the village closest to their school. Either way, they face enormous dangers including rape, trafficking or murder. It is no small wonder…
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Read moreThe leadership vacuum in the Eastern Cape ANC will be a thing of the past, after the party’s national bosses on Wednesday reinstated the defunct provincial executive committee (PEC), whose term had…
Eastern Cape pupils who failed matric or fell short of the marks they needed are being forced to leave their homes to repeat grade 12 at schools far away. Despite the province having 5,281 registered…
Traditional leaders, legal experts and children’s rights activists are demanding an immediate end to the practice of settling rape cases through holding family meetings or compensating for the crime…
In a state of despair and without answers as to why their young daughters were raped and killed, families in the Zibungu administrative area outside Libode are living in fear as their children…
There will be another new name making the rounds in the upcoming Eastern Cape ABC Motsepe League, and several status changes and promotions. Matatiele City is the team that was surprisingly announced…
More than 550 children and adults in Pefferville receive meals three days a week through Plateless, a nonprofit organisation founded by Angel and Larissa Snyman after they saw the difficulties faced…
Across the Eastern Cape, pursuing an education has become a matter of life and death. Pupils renting rooms in unfamiliar communities are forced to dodge bullets as they are targeted by armed…
Colorado healthcare facilities have submitted applications for the state’s Rural Health Transformation Program deadline, positioning applicants to compete for an annual share of $200 million over…