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ANC Head Honchos Face Anxious Wait As Court Weighs Bid To Have Them Jailed

ANC Head Honchos Face Anxious Wait As Court Weighs Bid To Have Them Jailed

Legal heavyweights Dali Mpofu, Yusuf Saloojee, Viwe Notshe and Karmeshni Pillay went head-to-head over what really happened after the ANC was ordered to halt its Eastern Cape conference earlier this year

Johnnie Isaac · 15h ago · 4 min read

South Africa, Let’s End Hunger By Putting A Meal On Someone’s Plate

South Africa, Let’s End Hunger By Putting A Meal On Someone’s Plate

1d ago · 3 min read

Health Authorities Roll Out New HIV Weapon As Attention Shifts To Eastern Cape’s Epicentre

Health Authorities Roll Out New HIV Weapon As Attention Shifts To Eastern Cape’s Epicentre

15h ago · 6 min read

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Buffalo City Invests R20m In Buffalo Park Upgrades Ahead of Cricket World Cup

Liyema Somhlaba · 1d ago

The Church, The Pulpit And The Race For The Mayoral Chain

Lubabalo Ngcukana · 3d ago

Constitutional Court Ruling Puts ANC Back In Contention

Zolile Menzelwa · 1d ago

Port St Johns Mayor Fired: Council Rejects Cogta Pick

Zolile Menzelwa · 1d ago

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Editorial cartoon showing a worried motorist at a coastal petrol station as money disappears into a fuel pump. The pump displays a sharply higher petrol price, while an exhausted SUV waits to be filled. A South African coastal scene with the ocean and beach appears in the background.

PUMPED UP PRICES

7 October 2026 · The Coastal - Rudi Louw

South African motorists are feeling the pain at the pumps as the latest petrol price hike puts even more pressure on household budgets.

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Health Authorities Roll Out New HIV Weapon As Attention Shifts To Eastern Cape’s Epicentre

Health Authorities Roll Out New HIV Weapon As Attention Shifts To Eastern Cape’s Epicentre

Thobile Hans · 15h ago · 6 min read

ANC Head Honchos Face Anxious Wait As Court Weighs Bid To Have Them Jailed

ANC Head Honchos Face Anxious Wait As Court Weighs Bid To Have Them Jailed

Johnnie Isaac · 15h ago · 4 min read

Power & Money

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From Promises To Production: Gqeberha’s Small Automotive Businesses Seek Bigger Share Of Industry

From Promises To Production: Gqeberha’s Small Automotive Businesses Seek Bigger Share Of Industry

Asemahle Mfombi · 23 Sept · 4 min read

Got a Big Sporting Idea? Eastern Cape Has Money On the Table And Is Inviting Proposals

Got a Big Sporting Idea? Eastern Cape Has Money On the Table And Is Inviting Proposals

The Coastal Reporter · 10 Sept · 1 min read

Sport

From Dimbaza to Commonwealth glory: Dambile wants his story to inspire a generation

From Dimbaza to Commonwealth glory: Dambile wants his story to inspire a generation

Asemahle Mfombi · 18 Sept · 4 min read

Middendorp Treks To The Eastern Cape To Lead New Football Academy

Middendorp Treks To The Eastern Cape To Lead New Football Academy

Asemahle Mfombi · 17 Sept · 3 min read

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Why Hamburg’s New Jazz Festival Felt More Rock ’n Roll Than Oppikoppi

Why Hamburg’s New Jazz Festival Felt More Rock ’n Roll Than Oppikoppi

Andries Bezuidenhout · 10 Sept · 2 min read

BOOK REVIEW: Africa's intellectual exile networks and archive get a massive boost from new writing

BOOK REVIEW: Africa's intellectual exile networks and archive get a massive boost from new writing

Bonface Orucho · 06 Sept · 5 min read

Ocean

West African states are moving from fragmented oversight to coordinated regional control of their oceans

West African states are moving from fragmented oversight to coordinated regional control of their oceans

Bonface Orucho · 07 Sept · 5 min read

Politics

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RIGHT OF REPLY: "The Mayor Did Not Snub The Economic Summit"

RIGHT OF REPLY: "The Mayor Did Not Snub The Economic Summit"

Sithembiso Soyaya · 05 Oct · 4 min read

OPINIONS & PERSPECTIVES: Who Can Fix Buffalo City? Putting The Mayoral Hopefuls To The Test

OPINIONS & PERSPECTIVES: Who Can Fix Buffalo City? Putting The Mayoral Hopefuls To The Test

Zola Pinda · 19 Sept · 11 min read

Prince Mlimandlela Ndamase Officially Enters The Mayoral Race

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OPINIONS & PERSPECTIVES: What If Science And Our Ancestors Are Speaking Of The Same Mystery?

OPINIONS & PERSPECTIVES: What If Science And Our Ancestors Are Speaking Of The Same Mystery?

Sizwe Kupelo · 10 Oct · 3 min read

OPINIONS & PERSPECTIVES: Why Durban keeps winning the big events — and what the Eastern Cape can learn

OPINIONS & PERSPECTIVES: Why Durban keeps winning the big events — and what the Eastern Cape can learn

Council

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Controversial Ex-Buffalo City Boss Takes Reins At Enoch Mgijima

Controversial Ex-Buffalo City Boss Takes Reins At Enoch Mgijima

Zolile Menzelwa and Johnnie Isaac · 01 Oct · 2 min read

Waste Management, Ngangelizwe Pool Projects Put On Hold As KSD Procurement Stalls

Waste Management, Ngangelizwe Pool Projects Put On Hold As KSD Procurement Stalls

The Coastal Reporter · 23 Sept · 1 min read

Boxing

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Tete’s Death Forces Golden Boy To Seek Fresh Start In Joburg

Tete’s Death Forces Golden Boy To Seek Fresh Start In Joburg

Monwabisi Jimlongo · 06 Oct · 2 min read

Nontshinga Suffers Knockout Defeat Against Suganob In IBF Title Eliminator

Nontshinga Suffers Knockout Defeat Against Suganob In IBF Title Eliminator

Bhongo Jacob · 12 Sept · 1 min read

World News Day

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Journalism & Our Chaotic World’s Future

Journalism & Our Chaotic World’s Future

Branko Brkic and Tina Brown · 28 Sept · 4 min read

Thank goodness for the storytellers – the ones who probe, question, irritate the powerful

Thank goodness for the storytellers – the ones who probe, question, irritate the powerful

Partner Content

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Blossom Bloom Brings Its Growing Wellness Business to KuGompo City

Partner Content

Blossom Bloom Brings Its Growing Wellness Business to KuGompo City

The Coastal Reporter · 30 Sept · 2 min read

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Constitutional Court Ruling Puts ANC Back In Contention

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Buffalo City Invests R20m In Buffalo Park Upgrades Ahead of Cricket World Cup

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Port St Johns Mayor Fired: Council Rejects Cogta Pick

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South Africa, Let’s End Hunger By Putting A Meal On Someone’s Plate

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South Africa’s Citrus Industry Is Expanding Production While Opening New Routes Into Global Markets

Power & Money

South Africa’s Citrus Industry Is Expanding Production While Opening New Routes Into Global Markets

Bonface Orucho · 10 Sept · 5 min read

Troubled Ndlambe Misses Revenue Target As Debtors Top R300m

The Coastal Reporter · 10 Sept

Fresh Plans To Revive National Shipping Line As African Nations Ramp Up Fleet, Port Investments

Seth Onyango · 01 Sept

Athletics South Africa At Loggerheads With Comrades Marathon

Sport

Athletics South Africa At Loggerheads With Comrades Marathon

WATCH News Agency · 11 Sept · 2 min read

From North End To The National Stage: Lakham Gqongo Reacts To His National U20 Call-Up

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Major tournaments, growing golf circuits and new tourism ventures are putting Africa’s fairways in play for a much bigger market.

Lifestyle

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Politics

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KSD formally ties senior managers’ performance to service delivery — particularly roads, water, sanitation and infrastructure

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