Badminton veteran, Essie Pienaar, recently represented the Eastern Province at the South African Grandmasters Championships held in Pietermaritzburg.
Author: Busisiwe Hoho
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With the local tennis season coming to an end recently, Coombs Tennis Club enjoyed yet another successful season. The tennis courts at Coombs have been occupied and alive with the thuds and squeaks of ongoing tennis matches.
Swallows kept their top spot on the Eastern province Rugby Union Super League, Wellman Harmse log when they beat St Marks 38-10. This was the last league match of season and Swallows will now head off to the play-offs. If they win all their play-offs, Swallows will then advance in the Super League.
St Andrew’s College were the overall winners of the Boys’ Quadrangular Athletics Meeting which was hosted at Kingswood College on Saturday.
SWALLOWS Rugby Club are the log leaders in all three Eastern Province Rugby Union (EPRU), Super League, Wellman Harmse section.
With Heritage Day celebrated across the country, Grahamstown sportsmen have also got involved in organising a local sporting event to coincide with Heritage Day.
Radio Grahamstown has upped its game in recent months, but there is still a long and winding road ahead. In the not too distant past, Radio G was in ICU and not many people were confident of a full recovery.
The Mail and Guardian of 16 September reported that an organisation called the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC) has been formed. With the dark clouds of the secrecy bill and tribunal gathering, any efforts to intensify the fight for an open information society is good news.
The recent public service strike almost brought the Grahamstown Magistrate’s Court to a standstill after workers joined the 21 day long strike. Stenographers and court interpreters participated in the strike, which meant that 560 court cases from both the district and regional courts were postponed during the strike said Koch Froneman, the checking officer of the Criminal Section at the magistrate’s court.
A local principal says a misunderstanding between his Grade 12 learners and members of South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) led to the learners locking in everyone at the school. Last week Sadtu leadership released a press statement as an apology to its members for exposing them to a “hostage” situation at Nombulelo Secondary School on Tuesday.