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4 days ago | 
dailydispatch.co.za | Sikho Ntshobane |Lulamile Feni
Mthatha childcare centre enters fourth week with no electricity Premium By SIKHO NTSHOBANE - 24 June 2025 A care centre in Mthatha which looks after disabled and autistic children has had its electricity cut off for almost a month...
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1 week ago | 
dailydispatch.co.za | Lulamile Feni |Sikho Ntshobane
Flood disaster no excuse for self-enrichment Premium By LULAMILE FENI and SIKHO NTSHOBANE - 20 June 2025 Finance MEC Mlungisi Mvoko has issued a stern warning against using the flood disaster, which claimed 92 lives so far and left thousands of people displaced, for self-enrichment...
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1 week ago | 
dailydispatch.co.za | Lulamile Feni |Sikho Ntshobane
Outpouring of grief at flood memorial services Emotional events held at Mthatha college and school hit by disaster Premium By LULAMILE FENI and SIKHO NTSHOBANE - 20 June 2025 The Eastern Cape focused on a provincial day of mourning on Thursday, with two sobering memorials for the dead and dispossessed, after devastating floods ravaged areas mainly around Mthatha on Tuesday last week...
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1 week ago | 
dailydispatch.co.za | Lulamile Feni |Sikho Ntshobane
Provincial day of mourning for flood victims Premium By LULAMILE FENI and SIKHO NTSHOBANE - 19 June 2025 The death toll from the devastating June 10 floods in the Eastern Cape has risen to 92, with 4, 308 individuals left homeless...
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1 week ago | 
dailydispatch.co.za | Sikho Ntshobane |Lulamile Feni
Woman swept 6km down river, prays that remains of loved ones are found Premium By SIKHO NTSHOBANE and LULAMILE FENI - 19 June 2025 “My house is gone, our car is still stuck in the river, my nephew is dead, my husband and both my sons are missing, and I am nursing a broken arm and a broken heart.”..
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1 week ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Lulamile Feni |Sikho Ntshobane
Heart-rending tales of flood terror Three Mthatha children tell of harrowing six-hour ordeal clinging to trees in freezing water as fellow pupils washed away 18 June 2025 - 12:23 By Lulamile Feni and Sikho Ntshobane “I begged her to cling to the tree. I urged her not to give up, but she was screaming and shouting there was a snake in the water and it was coming for her, and then she was gone.”..
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1 week ago | 
dailydispatch.co.za | Lulamile Feni |Sikho Ntshobane
Heart-rending tales of flood terror Three Mthatha children tell of harrowing six-hour ordeal clinging to trees in freezing water as fellow pupils washed away Premium By LULAMILE FENI and SIKHO NTSHOBANE - 18 June 2025 “I begged her to cling to the tree. I urged her not to give up. But she was screaming and shouting there was a snake in the water, and it was coming for her. And then she was gone.”..
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1 week ago | 
dailydispatch.co.za | Lulamile Feni |Sikho Ntshobane
UAE pledges R55m in aid for Eastern Cape flood victims Premium By LULAMILE FENI and SIKHO NTSHOBANE - 17 June 2025 The provincial government has received a R55m donation from the UAE to support flood-relief efforts after the devastating storms which claimed at least 88 lives, 60 of them in Mthatha alone...
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2 weeks ago | 
dailydispatch.co.za | Lulamile Feni |Sikho Ntshobane
Police minister Senzo Mchunu, accompanied by SAPS top brass, visited the bridge where a scholar bus was swept away by floods in Mthatha this week. Police minister Senzo Mchunu has described the Eastern Cape floods as a national tragedy, with 86 fatalities reported, 60 of which were from Mthatha alone.
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2 weeks ago | 
theherald.co.za | Lulamile Feni |Sikho Ntshobane
SEEING FOR HIMSELF: President Cyril Ramaphosa visits Mthatha on Friday in the wake of the devastating floods. President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed his sadness at the number of people killed by floods in the Eastern Cape, with 78 lives lost so far, adding that some people were still missing.
