Kingswood Junior School hosts its annual Wimpy Heritage Day Challenge on Sunday 26 September. The event consists of a 10km run/walk, as well as a 4.5km fun run/walk, as well as a 2km route for pre-primary students and their teachers and parents.
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Is the media under siege? was the question put to the pannellists Prof Michael Whisson of the Democratic Alliance (DA), Prof Anthea Garman of Rhodes University, Ayanda Kota of the Unemployed People’s Movement (UPM) and Mabhuti Matyumza of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL). More ANC representatives had been invited but failed to arrive.
On Friday evening the Community Policing Forum (CPF) held a moral regeneration meeting at Noluthando Hall in Joza. The purpose of the meeting was to encourage the community and church leaders to pray and work together with the police in the fight against crime.
Police are still busy searching for Sithembiso Livingstone Nonzube, a 69-year-old mentally disturbed man who went missing from his Extension 9 home on Wednesday 18 August. Nomthandazo Mankayi, who has been living with him for over 20 years said, “We both went out of the yard at the same time, I was going to visit a friend and he said he was going to buy a cigarette.
Police have declared the claims written in an email being circulated around the country about a new “arrest law” for women as false. The email claims that women have the right to refuse to go to a police station between 6pm and 6am, even when an arrest warrant has been issued.
“A child recognises an image before it can even speak,” said Dominic Thornburn of the Rhodes University department of Fine Art, while addressing learners at the Carinus Art Gallery’s 62nd annual exhibition on Thursday evening.
The municipality has called on people to assist in finding possible solutions for the current water crisis in Makana. The Grahamstown community, Rhodes University, municipal officials and councillors, and neighbouring municipalities, as well as representatives from the Amatola Water Board, met this week for a water indaba.
Science and Technology Minister, Naledi Pandor, made an official visit to the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB) on Monday. During the visit she formally opened the library and was conducted on a tour of the JLB Smith Collection Management Centre.
The Oxford South African Concise Dictionary will be two editions old when the second edition is launched today at UPB book shop.The dictionary is edited by the Dictionary Unit for South African English (DSAE) at Rhodes University.
Glenmore activist, Ben Mafani, who has been tirelessly fighting for the rights of his impoverished community for many years, met with Ashley Basson, an attorney from Whitesides Attorneys who represents the Eastern Cape premier’s office, at the Magistrate’s Court last week.