Author: Kayla Roux

The elections are approaching and to vote you will have to register at your local electoral office.

Water’s hard to come by in Grahamstown during the city’s frequent water outages. So confronted with large tracts of burning grassland, fire fighters often use a technique called back-burning to stop a fire.

MPs that missed declaration deadline should be disciplined beyond just naming and shaming them – this is the call by the Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM).

Grocott's Mail has received numerous calls and emails about the felling of a gigantic Natal fig tree on a private property on the corner of Bathurst and Lawrence streets.

Last weekend a number of large fires destroyed around 2 000 hectares of land across farms and municipal land in and around Grahamstown.

Invitations to attend the National Development Plan (NDP) youth gathering this past weekend from 5 to 6 October were extended to youth-led organisations within the Nelson Mandela Bay District, including the Rhodes University Student Representative Committee (SRC).

Members of the public are invited to a screening of short films made by school pupils and Rhodes students on the issues affecting young people and their education in Grahamstown on Thursday 10 October at 3pm at the Rhodes Theatre.

The botanical gardens were filled with the sound of laughter and enjoyment as people from all around the Eastern Cape came together at the fifth annual Grahamstown Flower Festival from 5 to 6 October.

The following speech was delivered by Dr Sizwe Mabizela, the Rhodes University Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs, to pupils of Victoria Girls High School at a prizegiving ceremony on Tuesday 8 October.

Makana Municipality has released a series of water conservation measures effective from 4 October to 10 October in response to the ongoing water outages which started two weeks prior.