The raison d’etre of the formation of the African Independent Congress more than 15 years ago has been to fight for the reincorporation of Matatiele, from the Eastern Cape to KwaZulu-Natal. But during ...

Ramafole village in Matatiele residents were very excited when 640 households in their village received electricity. The Deputy Minister of Energy Thembisile Majola, MEC for Cogta in the Eastern Cape ...

THE electricity power lines that cross over Ward 18 villages in Matatiele do not make life any easier for the community as they continue to live in the dark. The electricity lines at Calambasi Hill in ...

Each year sees young men dying in the Eastern Cape during their initiation ceremony, but recent success stories from Matatiele village show this doesn’t have to be the case. During the past season, it ...

The project, which started in 2020, was to supply and reticulate water throughout the village. It received R1.5m from a Covid intervention programme and an additional R4.3m from the Water Services ...

Villages in the Matatiele region of the Eastern Cape are benefitting from 43 protected springs, with 40 000 residents getting reliable water at R190 per person for life – thanks to the intervention of ...

Streams that were dry are flowing again, grazing lands have improved and cattle are healthier in the Eastern Cape communal areas near Matatiele. These results are the offshoots of five years of six ...

Watching Tukulo Mtshayelo amble through the veld, it seems he’d rather spend his Fridays cleaning up the ’hood instead of cruising a shopping mall like many his age. The lanky 25-year-old — “TK” to ...

A villager in Matatiele, Eastern Cape, died on Sunday waiting for a state ambulance that arrived about eight hours after it was summoned. There is only one state ambulance in an area with nearly 300 ...