Author: Busisiwe Hoho

On Friday, Equal Education came to town. And backing them in their 1 School, 1 Library, 1 Librarian campaign were the Eastern Cape’s Save our Schools and Communities (Sosac) group and Grahamstown’s own Fingo Revolutionary Movement (FRM).

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Grahamstown is renowned for many things good service is not one of them. More often than not, customer service in this town is abysmal. Anytime you open this discussion in a group of friends each one will come out and relate their personal horror stories about how badly they have been treated at a local commercial establishment.

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With the increased availability of a variety of fast foods, processed and refined products in our modern society many people are eating much more salt than what they need without even realising it.

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Get Home Safe is a service whereby students who are intoxicated or feel otherwise vulnerable can be safely picked up and driven home by trained drivers who are on duty three nights a week.

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We have much to learn from Australian gardeners, who with similar growing conditions and low water availability, use mulching as a standard garden practice. It is so common there, that the thin fleecy fabric that is used to keep the mulch separate from the soil is available at most supermarkets, hardware stores or garden centres, in rolls and by the metre.

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Got the wind up? As the process to decide on whether an experimental wind-powered electricity generator progresses into beyond the environmental impact stage, debates about the desirability or otherwise of wind power heat up.

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