Load-shedding is annoying, inconvenient and comes at great cost to the economy and society’s well-being.
Author: Editor
The good news for some motorists was that the price of petrol went down from 2 March.
A group calling themselves #AccessThuto (meaning “access education”) has decided to offer mediation and conflict resolution in the various stand-offs that are taking place across the country's universities.
The 2016 Puku Story Festival started on a high note with a lively community engagement event that featured guest of honour Dr Sindiwe Magona and acclaimed storyteller Gcina Mhlophe.
By the time the #CleanupGtown week started on Monday, the list had grown to 45 people and organisations volunteering to 'adopt a spot' in Grahamstown – or at least undertake to help keep it clean.
A Grahamstown principal has urged pupils to walk to school in groups after a boy was robbed by armed men on his way to school this morning, Monday 1 February. And police have appealed to the community to come forward with information that may help in tracing the suspects and recovering the stolen goods.
Rhodes University’s Distinguished Professor, Professor Tebello Nyokong, was awarded an African Union Kwame Nkrumah Scientific Award (AUKNSA) last Saturday (30 January). At a ceremony that took place at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Professor Nyokong was awarded a Continental Award which comes with prize money of US$100 000.
A case of fraud has been opened after close to R400 000 was removed from a Grahamstown school's bank account.