As part of the school’s 125th birthday celebrations, St Andrew’s Prep will be holding a 125 hour cycle event in the form of a relay race. Five staff members and 20 pupils will cycle an accumulated time of 125 hours on mountain bikes, riding on gravel roads.
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Willows Cricket Club, one of the Grahamstown cricket clubs which is part of the Grahamstown Cricket Board 2009/2010 first league, beat Sidbury Cricket club by 188 runs at Sidbury on Saturday.
The Eastern Province Triathlon (EPT) Championships took place at Hobie Beach in Port Elizabeth recently, with a number of locals taking part. Several Grahamstown athletes taking part used the triathlon as training towards the upcoming Spec-Savers
A number of Rhodes University Canoe Club members took part in the recent Hansa Powerade Dusi Canoe Marathon. Day one started from the Camps drfit Canal in Pietermaritzburg to Dusi Bridge. Day two was from Dusi Bridge to Inanda Dam and the third and final day was raced from Inanda Dam and finished in Durban.
“We do abortions up until the eighth month,” said the voice over the phone. “Six months is R1 100, seven months, R1 500.” Colorful posters adorn the walls of Grahamstown encouraging women to phone for a safe, pain free solution to an unwanted pregnancy.
VICTIMS of the tornado in October 2008 which left 161 houses severely damaged still don’t have permanent houses, despite a promise made to them by former Housing MEC Thobile Mhlahlo.
Applications for the third Grocott’s Mail Citizen Journalism course close at 5pm on Monday 15 February – go to www.grocotts.co.za/cj to register now.
The much-anticipated new Volkswagen Polo, officially launched across the country this week, has arrived at Market Square VW in Grahamstown.
"Two men wearing balaclavas and armed with knives held my two digsmates up in Oatlands North Municipal Park," said a shocked Daniel Danckwerts who has recently moved to the area. Second year student Danckwerts and his digsmates moved into a house near Oatlands North municipal park at the beginning of 2010.
Nobody stole money from the municipality during the 2008/2009 financial year but there are officials who are not skilled at doing their work, Makana Municipality’s Chief Financial Officer Jackson Ngcelwane has said in response to a damning Auditor General’s (AG) report that slammed the municipality’s record-keeping.