The Fridays are fast ticking down until the 2010 Fifa World Cup kick-off, and South Africans are being urged to mark each Friday by wearing a football shirt to work.
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The semi finals and final of the Grahamstown Cricket Board Sunny Sports Twenty20 tournament took place on Saturday. The Twenty20 competition ended on Saturday with the two semi-final matches taking place before the final.
The semi finals and final of the Grahamstown Cricket Board Sunny Sports Twenty20 tournament took place on Saturday. The Twenty20 competition ended on Saturday with the two semi-final matches taking place before the final.
Former Radio Grahamstown DJ, Eugene Siyabulela Tokwe, who died in a taxi accident on 23 December last year, has been described by friends and former colleagues as “an outspoken soldier with a vision”. Tokwe and his friend, Vusumzi Lubelwane were travelling from Johannesburg to Cape Town in a Toyota Quantum taxi on business in December.
The hot weather earlier this week saw some of the local schools cancel all of their field sporting events because temperatures had soared to above the acceptable level on the international heat index.
One person died and four were injured when a bus collided with a white Golf outside Seven Fountains last Thursday night. Police spokesperson, Inspector Sherolene Williams said the bus was travelling to Port Elizabeth while the other vehicle was travelling to Grahamstown. The occupant of the Golf died on the scene and the car was damaged beyond repair.
The installation of bulk sewer services in and around Mayfield is expected to be completed by the end of next month even though the contractor says they are behind schedule. The project’s community liaison officer Zwelandile Malawana complained that bad weather and rocky areas in Phaphamani and some parts of Hoogenoeg had slowed down work on the project.
IN an attempt to uncover activities of corruption and nepotism in the municipality, the Unemployed People’s Movement (UPM) has asked the municipality for all its records pertaining to new posts that were filled in the municipality last year.
St Andrew’s Prep School will celebrate its 125th anniversary with a parade on Friday 29 January. The procession will leave from the Fairlawn field at 9am and wind its way down Bedford Street to Cradock/ Somerset Street, up High Street and end at the City Hall approximately one hour later.
The drought in the Eastern Cape is biting harder than many of us town people realise. The municipality has already imposed water restrictions preventing residents from watering their gardens and washing their cars with a hosepipe. These restrictions might be mildly inconvenient, but the gardens still look green and the cars still look clean – well, most of them.