The Champion Tour, showcasing South African rugby’s outstanding success in 2009, is currently on its 7 000km, six-week journey across SA.
Author: Busisiwe Hoho
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Grocott’s Mail’s very own Stephen Penney, came 137th in The Herald Volkswagen Cycle Tour last Sunday. So why is that special? He was also the first local from Grahamstown to make it over the finish line and one of only two locals to finish in under three hours. The story of how he got there needs to be told.
A 60-year-old man was found dead and brutally mutilated near his home in L Street on Friday morning. Alfred “Dashman” Ntantiso was discovered by passersby naked and lying on his back. His genitals and chunks of flesh in his left thigh were missing.
A single-vehicle accident occurred in the early hours of Sunday on the road between Grahamstown and Port Alfred, killing Carlo Cassels (25), a Department of Labour employee.
TAXIS in Grahamstown went on strike on Monday leaving parents to make alternative arrangements for their children. Several schools in Grahamstown have been affected by the action but most were reluctant to comment on the poor situation of the government transport system. "It has affected our school and some students
Serving five years behind bars was not the only obstacle in Lwando Ciliwe’s way to fulfilling his desires. But a little forethought may have saved him a lot of pain.
The Eastern Cape Health Department is bankrupt and needs national intervention, says Daygan Eagar, Health Researcher at the Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM).
The Unemployed People’s Movement (UPM) has intervened to stop the alleged abuse of residents in and around Outspan Farm in Committees Drift by self-appointed manager Johan du Plessis.
Fifa, the organisation that runs the Soccer World Cup (SWC), has gone to great lengths to assure the media in South Africa that it has no intention of restricting press freedom in the country.
A recent editorial in Grocott’s Mail refers to the love/hate relationship that exists between the local community and our students. At Rhodes, we do indeed love our students and we need them but we also acknowledge that some of them are far from perfect.