The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) is refuting social media misinformation and claims about the expiry of the Sassa-Sapo Card on 31 March 2021. These claims are not true. The Sassa cards will not stop working on 31 March 2021. The cards will have to be replaced, as indicated by the SA Reserve Bank report but there is no set date by which time this must be done, information on the card replacement will be made public in due course. Sassa clients have the right to choose their payment method and there is nothing that forces the clients who…
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Donnay Oosthuizen
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The Eastern Cape has recorded a significant drop in various categories of violent crime during the course of the coronavirus lockdown, including stock theft and sexual offences. This was revealed in the quarterly provincial crime statistics announced by the Provincial Commissioner for the South African Police Service Lieutenant-General Liziwe Ntshinga at Bhisho Academy on Tuesday 15 December 2020. Ntshinga said the hard lockdown with restrictions on people’s movements had deterred opportunistic and habitual criminals and crime had dropped. However, with fewer restrictions as the lockdown levels lifted, so crime incidents went up, many of them associated with liquor abuse. The July to…
Two prisoners who escaped from the Grahamstown Correctional Facility last weekend have appeared on court on charges relating to escaping from lawful custody. A third person has been charged with harbouring an escapee. Notices circulated on social media warned that Lonwabo Ngqokoqwana and Luzuko Gxasheka, both considered extremely dangerous, had escaped from Waainek prison in Makhanda around 3.45pm on Saturday 12 December. The two men, both convicted prisoners, were alleged to have climbed an inner wall and an outer fence to escape, Provincial spokesperson Colonel Sibongile Soci said. A Task Team comprising Correctional Services, Grahamstown COCC and Grahamstown K9 were…
There’s plenty to do and see in and around our town this Festive Season. Here, Makana Tourism’s Prudence Mini walks you through some of the options. Check out astronomical sights The Astronomical Toposcope on Gunfire Hill in front of the 1820 Settlers’ National Monument shows the cardinal points and positions for the rising of certain constellations. The Monument also offers a great view of the City right through to Makana’s Kop in the heart of the township. For more information, contact the Monument on 046 603 1134. You can also experience the topmost turret of the Observatory Museum. Here, you…
Thembekile Kimi Makwetu was key to promoting greater accountability and improved consequence management in government, said the Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM). The outgoing Auditor-General passed away on 11 November 2020 after an extended battle with cancer. “We extend our condolences to his family and the many people who worked closely with him and were inspired by his steadfast and principled leadership,” the organisation said in a statement. Makwetu was in the final month of what PSAM said was an exemplary seven-year term as the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA). “This vital constitutional oversight institution has been at the forefront of…
The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) wishes to advise that payments of social grants for the month of November will begin on Tuesday 3 November for old age and Wednesday 4 November for disability grants, while child support, foster and care dependency grants will be paid from Thursday 5 November 2020. Payments at cash paypoints will begin on 6 November 2020. Sassa will continue with payments of Special Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress Grants (SRD) grant recipients from 6 November 2020 going forward, as such will not be paying this grant on the first three days of the payment…
vNAF REVIEW A Howl in Makhanda By Nkgopoleng Moloi Wayward: related to the family of words: errant, fugitive, recalcitrant, anarchic, willful, reckless, troublesome, riotous, tumultuous, rebellious and wild. To inhabit the world in ways inimical to those deemed proper and respectable, to be deeply aware of the gulf between where you stayed and how you might live. Waywardness: the avid longing for a world not ruled by a master, man or the police….The attempt to elude capture by never settling. Throughout history, the black femme body has been marked as undesirable, inherently delinquent or criminal. Young black girls are hyper-sexualised and criminalised…
Student and Community entrepreneurs who have an ICT Business or StartUp are invited to apply for a programme that connects them with experts in enterprise development. The Regional Innovation Networking Platform (RINP) facilitated by iHUB in PE is looking for technology businesses in the Eastern Cape Province to become part of their Enterprise Development Programme (EDP). To qualify to apply, you should be: Busy with a project which has components of technological innovation; Based in the Eastern Cape; Working on an innovation that you think solves a local problem; Confident the project…
Register on the National Arts Festival website with your name, email and city. Once you’re logged in, you will be able to browse the programme and decide what you’d like to see. You can access the shows and events in different ways: CURATED PROGRAMME OPTIONS A day pass at R80 will unlock all the curated programme events on a particular day. A Standard Bank Jazz pass at R500 gives you access to all jazz events over the Festival. Tickets for individual events cost from R35. VFRINGE Video on Demand tickets start at R25 per event. You can buy tickets to any number of events on the vFringe. Buy tickets to vFringe live streamed events and…