The municipality’s safety net, funds set aside for arrear debt, is up for revaluation, as it is every financial year. As of 30 June, government departments currently owe a total of R17-million including interest. Outstanding debts have not been settled with only two payments being received: R1-million from Settlers Hospital and R2.1-million from Public Works, which owes the most money – R9.7-million.
Author: Busisiwe Hoho
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“Kiss me in a graveyard,” she says. Her white dress flutters. Chloe Hirschman wanders alone through Grahamstown’s graveyards a few times a year to pick up litter and walk among the monuments to people she has never met.
“The future is new media,” Rebecca Wanjiku asserts without the briefest hesitation, as if it wasn’t a controversial issue. For a new media writer who realises that many people she encounters “think I’m not a real journalist”, the blogger and Nairobi correspondent for IDG News Service is remarkably self-assured.
Jabez Aids Health Centre hosted a winter warmness back-to-school programme where they distributed school uniforms and shoes to orphans and vulnerable children in Extension 9 last Friday afternoon. Jabez started an Orphan and Vulnerable Child headed household (OVC) programme in 2006 and received funding from the Department of Social Development a year afterwards.
When last did you check them? Do you even know where they are on your vehicle and what they actually do? Don’t feel bad, very few people know much about shock absorbers or dampers as they should be called as they damp out the excessive spring movement.
Terri-Lynn Penney of Grahamstown was among the world’s top triathletes in Budapest, Hungary, for the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Grand Final. The world triathlon, which covers a distance of 1.5km swim, 40km cycle and 10km run, took place on Sunday, with over 3 000 participants from across the world.
A netball, soccer and rugby tournament, The Heritage Cup, is taking place in G’town where the winning teams will receive a floating trophy. The brainchild of local sports researcher Phumzile Adam, the tournament is supported by Makana Municipality, the National Heritage Council and the Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture.
Rhodes University Archery Club hosted the Rhodes Indoor Archery Championships at Alec Mullins Hall over the past weekend. The shoot brought together archers from across the province, representing Nyati Archery in East London (EL) Londt Park in PE (LP) and Rhodes Archery club (RUAC), for a fun filled weekend of shooting.
While the Mutual & Federal Universities Boat Race, which came to an end last Saturday, proved to be yet another success, the Rhodes A sides were unable to make the finals.
The ANC was conspicuously absent from Tuesday’s debate on whether the media is under siege or not. This absence meant that there was no genuine debate because only one of the four panellists, Mabhuti Matyumza of the ANC Youth League, felt that the media was not under siege.