Dispatch Africa

08/09/2022

A 30m-wide whirlpool seen in the ocean off the Wild Coast could be linked to climate change. Photographed on August 17 by Green Scorpion Robert Stegmann during a routine SAPS air patrol, the images show one and possibly even two of the spinning holes in the ocean. Whirlpools are dangerous for ocean....

26/01/2022

Phakamile Petrus Sitho is part of a group of concerned people who gathered in Gonubie, East London, on Wednesday to raise awareness about farm attacks and killings, and said they want farmers and their workers to be protected. Video: SUPPLIED

28/12/2021

Shell will have to call a halt to its seismic survey along the ecologically sensitive Wild Coast after the high court in Makhanda today interdicted it from proceeding.

08/12/2021

While it supports Shell's move to carry out seismic blasting on the Wild Coast, the Eastern Cape government intends to meet the oil giant's bosses to raise concerns voiced in a spate of public protests across the country against the plans.

30/11/2021

The full horror of the night Nosicelo Mtebeni was murdered and the days that followed was laid out in the East London high court on Monday when her killer admitted how he had gone online to learn how to dismember her body. Nosicelo’s father, Kholisile, wept as he heard the gruesome details in the ...

20/11/2021

Former water and sanitation minister Lindiwe Sisulu intervened to persuade the Amatola Water Board, in writing, to reinstate controversial unionist Victor Phumzile Totolo and give him back pay of more than R950,000. This is revealed in a memo written and signed by the bulk water supplier’s former ...

18/11/2021

11/11/2021

02/10/2021

A school textbook lies on the classroom floor splattered with cow dung and filthy with dust.

18/09/2021

Gugulethu Ndzendze, a nine-year-old grade 3 pupil from Voorpos Primary in East London, touched the hearts of many when she performed a classic opera song that went viral on Facebook.

02/09/2021

Seasoned radio presenter Daron Mann discusses the widespread calls to legalise the use and commercialisation of cannabis in South Africa.

17/08/2021