Psalm 143. A heart wrenching cry to God from a human being in need. A vivid picture of agony: "My soul thirsts for You like a parched land". In this piece of poetry the phenomenon of drought becomes symbolic of the universal experience of a person’s need for God. Of course there are the "good times" when we feel on top of the world.
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Maulana Amir Sherman has been living in Grahamstown for almost two years. He was born in Yahud, a city in Israel in 1973. “My parents were from Russia and had immigrated to Israel the year before I was born,” he said. They lived there for 12 years and then moved to South Africa in 1985.
A 12-year-old boy died in Joza on Wednesday after he was robbed and stabbed, allegedly by a group of school boys. The incident took place near the Ethiopian Church in Ncame Street.
CEO of the 2010 Fifa World Cup South Africa, Danny Jordaan was the guest speaker at a workshop held by the Makana Football Workshop Committee (MFWC) at Noluthando Hall on Saturday.
Over the past year, staff at the Sunflower Hospice Shop in Bathurst Street have kept aside the most special vintage and evening wear donated by the public for a special fundraising event.
A rhino was killed by poachers last Tuesday evening at Kariega Game Reserve. This is the fourth poaching incident in the Eastern Cape in the past nine months, with rhinos being shot at the Shamwari, Lalibela, and Kwantu game reserves.
The Sakhuluntu Cultural Group has organised a week of events in honour of Heritage Month that is bound to get you dancing and singing. Based in Extension 9, Sakhuluntu is an informal community organisation that aims to keep the youth of the area off the streets by coaching them in the skills of dance, drama and song.
Three departments that presented their reports at the Makana Municipality annual Integrated Development Programme (IDP) forum came in for a griling on Friday.
Local enterprises are livid about the impact that an electricity cost hike of over 30% has had on business.
Some of Grahamstown’s businesses have managed to keep their tills ringing at a time when consumers are choosing to forego luxury items just so that they can afford the basics.