The Grahamstown SAPS Task Team has had a string of successes in the past week, capturing men linked to the theft of laptops and other electronic equipment. The task team, under the command of Inspector Lawrence van Ross, arrested five suspects involved in separate incidents of housebreaking and theft. The task team is renowned for making large drug, dagga and stolen goods busts.
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A long queue of Grahamstownians ready to cast their votes awaited election officials at the Rhodes Drama department at 5:30am. The polling station opened at 7am and staff worked tirelessly until 9pm. The Drama department was mobbed by hundreds of veterans and first-time voters. Spirits were high despite the frosty weather.
VARIOUS businesses around Grahamstown have fallen victim to a con artist who is still wanted by the police on different criminal charges.
What started out as a practical for grade ten pupil Wesley Gush has evolved into a raft of opportunites that has taken him from Grahamstown to Budapest. Gush, currently in Grade 11 at Kingswood College, represented South Africa at the European Expo for Young Scientists in July.
This is an open letter to anyone who is in charge of the eradication of the bucket toilet system.
I WRITE in response to Sean Bozalek’s letter to Grocott’s Mail (26 September), in which he deplores the behaviour of Rhodes students who abuse alcohol. In his letter, he acknowledges that Rhodes is making an effort to counteract the “drinking culture”, and I am pleased to note that these efforts have not gone unnoticed.
At the beginning of October, Rhodes History professor, Julia Wells left her flourishing academic career to become one of five full-time councillors in the Makana municipality. Wells is widely respected as a historian specialising in the overlapping fields of oral history, public history, community history and applied history.
THE Grahamstown Music society bade farewell to Dr Timothy Radloff with a lifetime chairmanship honour after his retirement from the society. Although he has been chairman since 2003, Radloff’s involvement with the society goes back 38 years.
SOUTH African police officers and management will receive extensive retraining after the new national budget is approved in April next year. Meanwhile, police stations throughout the country will continue with their current training courses as usual.