A birthday cake at the age of 24, and a very special Makhanda teacher are some of the moments that have brightened the life of Myrtle Janet Gray. The motivational speaker and life coach was at Amazwi, in Makhanda, recently to launch her book, The Fatherless Daughter. Special guests, family and friends stepped up to make the occasion memorable. The purpose of the event is to highlight the mental and emotional impact of an absent father in a child’s life. Gray met her father for the first time as a teenager – by accident – and doesn’t even have a photograph to…
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Grahamstown Brumbies 1st XV and Trying Stars locked horns on Saturday 15 May at the Albany Sports Ground in a friendly match. Trying Stars got the better of the home side and ran out deserving 24-12 winners. Clubs in the Eastern Province Rugby Union (EPRU) that are complying with Covid-19 return to play regulations are eligible to play friendly matches during this pandemic. No leagues are yet decided for the compliant clubs within the EPRU and therefore, only friendly matches can proceed. Saturday’s friendly encounter saw no spectators allowed on the ground as it is the rule for all participating…
By CHESLEY DANIELS Faith Cares River Ministries Church in East London brought smiles to the faces of Alicedale residents with some early Christmas Cheer by handing out more than 500 food parcels on Thursday26 November. Learners and their parents from all the communities in Alicedale benefited from this outreach project. Faith Cares is the humanitarian division of Faith Broadcasting Network. Their main entity is River Ministries. They have a Satellite TV Channel, Faith TV, on DSTV 341, and also broadcast internationally. Faith Cares was formed under Faith TV. This outreach was done under Faith Cares with the help of…
New England (US) Free Jacks signs Pro14 Prop, Xandre Vos from the Southern Kings, reports Chesley Daniels Xandre is tipped to be a real handful in Major League Rugby. A strong scrummager, with experience playing both sides of the scrum, Xandre will be welcomed open arms to what is a formidable squad forming in New England. The talented and promising 24-year-old attended Graeme College and was impressive at the age-grade level, starting all 31 matches for the school’s top rugby side in 2013 and 2014. In 2015, Vos played with the Eastern Province Kings U/19 while beginning his tertiary education…
The Sidbury Cricket Club eye their third Grahamstown Cricket Board (GCB) 1st league this coming season and want to make history in the process. They want to be the first club that wins the GCB 1st league three times in a row. They’ve won the league the past two seasons and have the third one in their sights. If they eventually succeed, they will make history as the first club to achieve this. The club has played consistent consistent cricket the past two seasons. Southwell, Cuylerville and Manleys Flats also won the league twice in a row but never went…
TRIBUTE TO ELEANOR CHRISTIAN Eleanor Christian was born in Hankey on 8 April 1968. She attended Hankey Primary School and later went to Gelvandale High School in Port Elizabeth where she matriculated. After school, she completed her teacher’s diploma at Dower College in PE and further studies at the Western Cape College of Education. This year, she was doing her final year BEd Degree at Rhodes University. Eleanor started her teaching career at Chigwell Primary near Hankey and then moved to Grahamstown, where she taught at Good Shepherd Primary from 1995 until now. Ella was humble and always went out…
The South African Rugby Union (SARU) Gold Cup Knock Out Tournament once again delivered good rugby as well as a few surprises over the weekend. In Alexandria, the home side Trying Stars ran away 49-13 dominant winners over Paterson Lions. Stars were ruthless and found themselves with a comfortable 22-3 at halftime. Stars are a very difficult side to beat at home turf and their eight tries were testimony to this. They played some outstanding running rugby with an unstoppable backline who scored all of their team’s tries. Lions fought back in the second half with two tries, but it…
The Annual Pam Golding Properties Graeme Rugby Day once again lived up to its expectations, with a lot of excitement, plenty of entertainment and a few upsets. The popular event took place at Graeme College’s Somerset and Marais fields in Makhanda. Thousands of rugby enthusiasts came out in their numbers in support through the day. Thirty-one matches were scheduled for the day and 62 teams played under-14, U15 and U16 matches at the school’s Marais Field, as well as at Kingswood College and St Andrew’s College, with the first-team matches played on Somerset Field. Alongside local teams Graeme, Kingswood, Mary Waters,…
The Southwell First Cricket side successfully defended the Kowie Toyota Pineapple Tournament-title they commandeered in 2019. Southwell overwhelmed the Grahamstown Invitation XI in the final at the Port Alfred Country Club on Saturday. Southwell won by a massive 200 runs. The annual Pineapple Tournament was yet again a huge success, with lots of action throughout. Exciting and competitive cricket was played and it also brought upsets and surprises. In the semi-finals, Southwell went through to the final in a controversial manner in the game against Salem. The Grahamstown XI comprehensively defeated Cuylerville in the other semi-final. The final wasn’t the showcase…
The Sidbury Cricket Club First XV defended their Grahamstown Cricket Board (GCB) First League title successfully without a delivery or shot played last weekend. The 2019/2020 season went down to the wire with a nail-biting end to the season. It was the first time in the club’s history that they’d had to defend their title so firecely. They were joing log leaders with Cuylerville going in to the last round of the league, with 60 points each. Whoever won the last game with a bonus point would be declared league winners. But Cuylerville, who were the log leaders for most of the…