Thousands of learners from township high schools and members of the local South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) marched to the district office of the Eastern Cape Department of Education on Friday to protest about the shortage of teachers in their schools.
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Unemployed People's Movement leader Ayanda Kota was arrested on a charge of theft on Thursday afternoon, and allegedly assaulted by police in front of his 6-year-old son.
The COP17 climate change meetings in Durban produced several interesting outcomes after the 12-days of talks over-ran into the early hours of the 14th day. Top negotiators stretched their powers of endurance in the final week of the conference so that some of them did not sleep at all in the last two days.
Prank calls, technical glitches and rude or unresponsive police officers are some of the reasons Grahamstown residents can't get help in a hurry when they call the police. Matthew Smith Miller reports.
The ANC's decision to steamroll the Protection of Information Bill through the National Assembly earlier this week was disgraceful and an insult to all South Africans.
A young woman's body was found in her boyfriend's house after the neighbours rushed to investigate smoke coming out of the windows. The 19-year-old woman was found dead at her boyfriend's house in Transit Camp in the early hours of Sunday morning.
At Wednesday’s COP 17 Round Table at Rhodes, members of the community discussed what climate change means for Grahamstown and looked to develop a unified message about what the upcoming climate conference in Durban should achieve at a local, national, and international level.