The Eastern Cape Transport Department has urged motorists travelling to Mthatha to either delay their travel or avoid the town completely. Mthatha in the Eastern Cape has been brought to a standstill ...

Mthatha saw a large-scale protest on Monday as residents marched through the town, expressing their anger and frustration over the growing crime wave, including extortion, femicide, and stock theft.

A video calling for a shutdown in Mthatha has been circulating on social media. The call follows taxi violence in the province. Eastern Cape Transport and Community Safety MEC Xolile Nqatha said the ...

Thirty foreign shopkeepers have been gunned down since January. Eight people were shot dead in one day. A 62-year-old traffic cop was shot and fatally wounded for writing a ticket. Municipal official ...

Following claims that the police had disarmed one faction in a deadly taxi war this weekend, Mthatha in the Eastern Cape was blocked off completely on Monday morning, with no vehicles able to travel ...

The first day of special voting was affected with over 100 voting stations unable to open due to the protests. The South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) has confirmed, in a post shared on X, ...

At least 49 people are confirmed dead amid fears the number could rise in Mthatha, the Eastern Cape. Residents were warned as far back as 2013 to vacate homes built on a dangerous flood line. Floods ...

Police have described the situation in Mthatha as tense, with many roads in and out of the Eastern Cape hub still closed since Monday morning. “Currently, the main road which is the N2 and the R61 is ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The death toll in floods in one of South Africa’s poorest provinces rose to at least 78 on Thursday as a top official said rescue attempts in the first hours after the ...

The skies will be mostly clear. The low will be 2°. Moderate air quality (51-100) Primary pollutant PM2.5 16 μg/m³ Pressure is the weight of the air in the atmosphere. It is normalised to the standard ...