By Khanyisa Khenese The Sarah Baartman District Municipality, together with local municipalities and other sectors, hosted a Makhanda Agriculture and Food Trade Fair on 8 March on Church Square to bring together farmers and food vendors to showcase and sell their farm products and cooked food. The programme also aimed to strengthen food security and grow a productive economy to eradicate poverty and create employment in Makhanda. Regional manager of Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC), Vuyokazi Zozi, said the programme is hosted because the municipalities and sectors realise that farmers go beyond what they harvest and yet do not have…
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By Khanyisa Khenese Two Makhanda schools are feeling the debilitating effects of cable theft. TEM Mrwetyana Senior Secondary School in Joza has been forced to use a neighbour’s home for its printing needs, while toddlers and other little children at BoyBoy Mginywa Pre-School in Xolani have been learning in the dark for nearly three months. BoyBoy Mginywa supervisor Emihle Ngqina said she sometimes has to use her cellphone torch so that the little learners are able to see. “It’s dark in the classroom, and it is hard to teach, sometimes, I must switch on the torch on my phone so…
By Khanyisa Khenese On Thursday evening this past week, Rhodes University Community Engagement (RUCE) hosted a celebration and welcoming soiree for 50 first-year students who were part of the 9/10th mentoring programme. Guests at the event included Rhodes University’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Sizwe Mabizela, student leaders, and principals of participating schools in Makhanda. “2023 [was] record-breaking; a total of 50 mentees were accepted for full-time studies at Rhodes University, marking a significant milestone of the programme,” said Babsy Makombe, the high school programme manager at Gadra Education. Mabizela said the programme was initially established in September 2015 after he, Ashley Westaway,…
By Khanyisa Khenese When Henry Carter Galpin met and married his wife, Georgina Luck, in Cape Town in the year 1850, before moving to Grahamstown, it was perhaps unfathomable that 174 years later, their home would be the place for imagining the future of science. This past weekend, the Observatory Museum hosted a Valentine Mingle that brought together Makhandans of all ages. This experience was enhanced by the lively atmosphere created by the music band Genesis and the Makhanda Marimba Group. The event aimed to celebrate love, both past and present, and, more importantly, help raise R60 000 to secure…