The Albany Museum’s Education Department spent last Friday fulfilling the Mandela day mandate, by spending 67 minutes handing out clothing, blankets, sporting equipment and books to Manley Flats and Wilson’s Party farm schools.
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Herbert Doyle, a 62-year-old Grahamstown resident, was sentenced to five years imprisonment in the Grahamstown Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
The Clover 10km road race, which was also the Eastern Province 10km championships, took place in Port Elizabeth on Saturday. Although it was a good chance for a number of Grahamstown’s talented locals to show off their speed and stand a chance of being selected for the Eastern Province 10km team, not many locals took part.
The annual Talisman Pineapple Endurance mountain bike events took place from Shaw Park on Sunday with a number of Grahamstown cyclists performing well. The 43km event took cyclists through farmlands, pineapple lands, river beds and indigenous forest.
The African Connections women’s soccer side from Grahamstown travelled to East London on Saturday when they took part in the provincial Absa women’s soccer league play-offs. The Grahamstown side finished top of the Cacadu District and took part in the provincial play-offs as the Cacadu champions.
"I am hurt and feeling pain, it’s almost two months now and I still have no idea where my daughter is," said Margaret Davids, the worried mother of China from Alicedale.
Uninzi lukholelwa ekubeni ushishino ngendlu yabatyeleli iB&B eGrahamstown yinto eyakha yabalula ukwenza imali, nanjengoko emaninzi amathuba woshishino kuba lendawo ithi ibeneminyhadala emikhulu efana neNational Arts Festival kunye nexesha lothweso zidanga kwiDyunivesithi iRhodes.
Multiple pubs were forced to temporarily close this week as local authorities started enforcing the new liquor by-law. Grahamstown’s early morning drinking days are finally over.
Following a strike by staff members at the school, Nathaniel Nyaluza principal has been sent on leave while the matter is investigated as the education department fears for his safety. The department’s provincial spokesperson Mali Mtima confirmed yesterday that Washington Mushwana was on leave.
The announcement made by Makana Mayor Pumelelo Kate that he intends to resign from his post has been met with negative reactions from opposition parties saying the move will disrupt the delivery of municipal services Democratic Alliance (DA) chairperson Jock McConnachie said Kate did not jump ship out of his own will but was forced to do so by the ANC.