Starting on Monday 20 March, South Africa will celebrate National Library Week. With this there is also good news for Grahamstown as the Hill Street public library officially reopens on Wednesday after a year of closure due to renovations.
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There has never been a better time in history for Africans to develop solutions for our own challenges, particularly with the unprecedented growth in many sectors in the country, says Science and Technology Minister, Naledi Pandor.
The Small Enterprise Finance Agency (sefa) will be in Grahamstown on Wednesday 15 March. Sefa will host a breakfast session for small businesses and co-operatives in the Eastern Cape at Makana Resort in Grahamstown from 8am to 12pm.
Bad Week 1 This was a bad week for top women in the ANC. For starters, Faith Muthambi, Minister of Communications was on the receiving end of calls to resign or be red-carded for the shenanigans at SABC, which were all laid out in a scathing report by a parliamentary ad-hoc committee that was established to probe the public broadcaster following months of chaos, last year.
Water restrictions will remain in place in parts of the Eastern Cape until dam levels average 80% of their capacity, the Department of Water and Sanitation announced today at a media briefing in King William's Town, as low water levels in the Eastern Cape Water Supply System (ECWSS) raise serious concerns for water security in the province for the next year or two.
A 24-hour stop-go will be in operation on the N2 at the Fish River bridge until Thursday 16 March, causing delays of an expected 5-10 minutes.
Young people in Grahamstown are speaking out loud and clear about their lives and their expectations. Just before international Mother Tongue Day, and the start of the Puku isiXhosa Story Festival, 21-26 February 2017, four Grahamstown schoolgirls who participate in the Awarenet programme speak about storytelling in isiXhosa culture.
The World War I sinking of the troopship SS Mendi, whose centenary is next week, consisted of a series of disastrous events resulting in the tragic and wholly avoidable loss of many lives. When the Mendi (4 230 tons), on the final leg of its journey from Cape Town to Le Havre in France, was rammed by a speeding SS Darro (10 000 tons) in thick fog, it took only 20 minutes to sink.
In the week of World Reading Day, and a week ahea of the Puku Story Festival, Joana Bezerra of Rhodes University's Community Engagement division uses stories and their meaning as a starting point for a discussion about perspective and attitude