A local research organisation is concerned that state land-reform in the Cacadu district is leaving farmworkers impoverished rather than improving their livelihoods.
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Principals have renewed hope that the obstacles they were faced with at the start of the new school year will be removed, after a visit by a high-powered delegation earlier this month.
A top South African scientist was in Grahamstown recently to present research so momentous that she has to fight off international companies offering her millions for her secret.
It was quiet at Mary Waters Secondary School in Vergenoeg, one of the two voter registration stations for Makana's Ward 3, when Grocott's Mail arrived there on Sunday.
Eight second-half goals revived what had the potential to be a very dull game between two local sides on Saturday afternoon at the Rhodes University King Field.
Four ANC hopefuls in the race to be named the party's official candidate for Ward 10 councillor in the local elections got a grilling on Friday night from the residents they are vying to represent.
A group of children nearly 10 000km from Grahamstown sold red ribbons, beaded badges, cake, credit card wallets, raffle tickets and wristbands to raise more than R14 000 for orphans in this city.
Top local tennis players were in action at the Kingswood College tennis courts on Sunday, when the finals of the Grahamstown and District Junior Tennis Championships took place. The event started on 28 January with the knockout stages, and culminated in the various age group finals on Sunday.
Struggle songs were the order of the day as Mary Waters High teachers joined pupils and their parents on the streets yesterday in protest against the school's shortage of teachers.
The St Andrew's College 1st X1 started off their season in the Grahamstown Schools' Cricket Festival against a well-drilled Hoerskool Menlopark side.