Author: Grocott's Mail

The Rhodes University Archery Club raised the bar in the last weekend of February when they won the vast majority of gold medals at the Eastern Province Archery Championships hosted by NMMU in Port Elizabeth. Archery articles nearly always include a weather report and this should come as no surprise to anybody who has ever bent a bow.

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When there is no money to buy tinned food, frozen bags of meat, rice or even ground maize, people turn to natural resources, like hunting rats.

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The phone rang. I took a deep breath. I was about to take my first call in the editor’s chair. Could this be a Deep Throat source with information about a sensational story that would make Grocott’s Mail sell thousands more issues? Or maybe even my first reader with a complaint or compliment?

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Lynette Rudman of Teddy Bears Playcentre in Grahamstown is the only person in the world who makes braille books for preschoolers. I make books for blind and visually impaired children, but they can also be used by fully sighted children, because all children like to feel with their hands, said Rudman.

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Jacob Zuma’s new Presidential hotline may be toll-free but could cost you a lot of time. The hotline was launched last Monday and Zuma even answered some of the calls himself. We put it to the test.

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The Apple website has announced that it was the band Coldplay’s song Speed of Sound off their new X&Y album that reigned in as the one billionth song legally downloaded from the iTunes Music Store.

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