Author: Grocott's Mail

Grocott’s Mail intern photojournalist Roxanne van Winsen was judged the runner-up in this year’s prestigious Commonwealth Young Photographer awards. van Winsen received a cash prize and her work will be exhibited in London on a show that runs until the end of October.

Read More

POLICE and the community policing forum (CPF) hauled over 400 litres of the dangerous home brew umtshovalale in Vukani and Fingo Village and arrested over 20 people over the weekend. Dagga was also siezed.

Read More

EASTERN Cape Agriculture MEC, Gugile Nkwinti has been reunited with a former comrade who saved him from the apartheid security police. Nkwinti was overwhelmed when he came across former journalist Franz Kruger at a SADC journalist’s press conference held in Bhisho.

Read More

SAMA winner, Sbusiso “DJ Sbu” Leope was admitted to Settlers Hospital after he was hit on the head by a bottle after his performance in Grahamstown on Saturday.

Read More

Nomazulu,* peruses shelves at a Grahamstown pharmacy on High Street for skin bleaches, lightening creams and salves. The young woman whose own complexion is a rich cocoa claims to have used skin lightening creams for over ten years. She doesn’t see anything wrong with trying to enhance her beauty by making her complexion fairer.

Read More