SENIOR officials from the Eastern Cape department of education have been locked in meetings with five deputy ministers to assess the implementation of national intervention in the beleaguered department.
The Daily Dispatch has learnt from a reliable source that deputy ministers involved in the national five-a-side team arrived on Monday for a two-day visit to the province.
THE DA is threatening to approach the public protector and national parliament after its motion to nullify ward committee elections across the province was outvoted by the ANC during a sitting at the Bhisho legislature on Tuesday.
The ANC voted against the motion even though Transport MEC Tandiswa Marawu, speaking on behalf of Local Government MEC Mlibo Qoboshiyane, admitted the department had received reports about flawed elections in at least four municipalities.
BHISHO has condemned an impoverished Eastern Cape municipality’s plan to splash out R1.8-million on a two-day jazz extravaganza this weekend, saying the council should concentrate on issues of service delivery.
But the Matatiele festival last night appeared set to go ahead tomorrow, even though only 975 of the 7 000 tickets had been sold just days before the show begins.
MARKING of matric exam papers got off to a smooth start yesterday in the Eastern Cape with the department being commended for its preparedness.
Members of the provincial legislatu portfolio committee on education, who visited all 15 marking centres in the Eastern Cape, said staff at the centres were well prepared.
“The Democratic Alliances’s environmental affairs spokesman, John Cupido, said the metro had not been proactive in monitoring the population growth of the Gonubie informal settlement.”
AROUND 1 200 shacks in Mzamomhle informal settlement have been built on environmentally sensitive sand dunes which form a buffer between the ocean and the sprawling Gonubie township.
Residents of F-section in Mzamomhle have chopped down trees and coastal bush on the sand dunes to make way for shacks as an ever increasing number of people move into the township.
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