Chaneez Sias The Graeme College first team hockey team played against Port Alfred High School on Wednesday 19 April, eventually triumphing 4-1. The teams participated in four 15-minute chuckers of high intensity, pace and ball skills. Graeme secured the first goal with L. Feni scoring in just minutes of the first chucker and came back into the second chucker to score another goal. L. Makele made a beautiful breakthrough for Port Alfred by intercepting a pass at the halfway line and went on to run straight ahead finishing off his hard work with a lovely simple hit from the top-d into…
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What is a deceased estate? A deceased estate comes into being when a person dies. The person who has died is referred to as the deceased. The deceased estate consists of all the property s/he owns and debts s/he owes at the time of his death. Property can be movable (e.g. money, a car) or immovable. Immovable property refers to land and the buildings on the land. Who has the right to deal with the property of the deceased? When someone dies, the death has to be reported to the Master of the High Court. The Master’s office is situated…
Hleze Kunju The following poems were written by the Grade 9 Khutliso Daniels pupils during the 2017 Puku Story Festival Poetry workshop in Grahamstown. Both poems, ‘Umzali’ (a parent) and ‘Ndlovu’ (elephant) are about parenting. They say, a parent is someone who is with you at all times. Even if they are not there physically, their teachings always ring in your ears. In the second poem, parenting is compared with the character of an elephant. They finish off the poem by saying, “I wish I could have a parent like an elephant… I wish I could be a parent like an…
The African Regional Round of a prestigious international Moot Court Competition on trade law will be hosted by Rhodes University in Grahamstown next week. The 15th European Law Students’ Association (ELSA) Moot Court Competition on 9-13 April is a simulation of a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel proceeding. The competition is a student-run moot court competition organised annually by ELSA in co-operation with the WTO. It builds awareness of the WTO dispute settlement system and provides students around the world with legal knowledge and skill, building global legal capacity at the same time. “Africa has been notably under-represented from dispute settlements…
Unemployed People’s Movement #ZumaMustFall Democracy is the government of the people for the people by the people. It is the will of the people. South Africans seems to be united in their call for Zuma to be released of his duties. At the heart of this call is the trillion-rand nuclear power deal that will benefit the Russians, the Guptas and his family. The sacking of the minister of finance is an attempt to capture the Treasury. The call for his dismissal is coming from the hills of the Constitutional Court ruling, that he is in breach of his oath.…
On 30 of March 2017, the Makana Municipality had a Special Council Meeting, among other reasons to consider the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) (2017-2022) and the 2017/18 draft Budget. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO), who is responsible for aligning the IDP with the budget, confirmed that the IDP is aligned to the Budget. What is an IDP? What is a municipal budget? And what does alignment mean? An IDP is developmentally orientated planning document given effect by chapter 5 of the Municipal Systems Act (MSA) of 2000. The IDP is a process of consultation, participation and information sharing at municipal level for…
By Chaneez Sias While their respective 1st teams were playing in the SPAR Eastern Cape Schoolgirls Hockey Challenge, the Kingswood College and DSG 2nd hockey teams met on Saturday in a game set up as a practice run for K-Day. The opening whistle signaled the start of the game at 11am on DSG’s home field. The first goal was brilliantly scored by Joanne Rhode of DSG and although this was just the first half, the girls made sure that they gave it their all, making every second of the game count. The first half came to an end, with DSG…
By PROFESSOR JONATHAN CAMPBELL and MR NDUMISO KHUMALO 1. How is ownership of housing/ land transferred from the seller to the buyer?
Grade 6 St Andrew’s Prep pupil, Christopher Pretorius became the youngest member ever to be selected to join the well-known St Andrew’s College Pipe Band. Christopher began lessons on the Chanter at the beginning of Grade 5 and, with a lot of practise, progressed quickly. His teacher, Murray Roodt was Pipe Major when he was at St Andrew’s College.