Makana Mayor Zamuxolo Peter has rubbished recent claims by the Daily Dispatch suggesting that Rhodes University bailed out the municipality so it could pay employees.
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The municipality is not bankrupt, spokesperson Mncedisi Boma says. Speaking to Grocott's Mail this morning, Boma also said rumours that the provincial government would intervene were not true.
Top Carpets and Floors recently opened a new branch in Grahamstown, located at the intersection of Hill and New streets.
Every year the Cathedral, like many churches throughout the world, has a special service for what is known as All Souls Day, or the Commemoration of the Faithful Departed.
Makana's top managers will meet tomorrow to discuss the financial crisis that has flung the municipality into chaos since Friday 25 October.
A Makana Council meeting scheduled to start at 10am on Monday 28 October was adjourned because Mayor Zamuxolo Peter and Municipal Manager Pravine Naidoo were busy addressing disgruntled municipal workers.
Furious municipal workers gathered in front of the Makana city hall on Friday 25 October because their salaries had not been paid causing rumours to circulate that the municipality has no money in the bank.
The Wilderness Foundation’s Forever Wild Rhino Protection Initiative will be able to launch additional aerial support and patrols for anti-poaching activities following the donation of an Aquila Trike on Friday October 18 at Shamwari Private Game Reserve.
It’s only a matter of time before officials catch a suspected arsonist they believe to be behind the spate of fires that has destroyed farms and municipal land in and around Grahamstown during the past couple of weeks.
Lungelwa Manona was involved in a car crash in Grahamstown this week on the eve of a memorial service for her late father, Dr Cecil Manona. The retired Rhodes academic died in Port Elizabeth on Monday 7 October.