Author: Lucas Nowicki

The first Albany Reading Festival took place on a recent rainy Saturday morning. St Mary’s Development and Care Centre (DCC) played host to a variety of festive activities and literacy organisations which came together to celebrate and encourage a culture of multilingual literacy for young people. The festival was a joint venture with the Lebone Literacy Project and was funded by Grahamstown’s Catholic Church. The organisers hope to make it an annual event on the local calendar. The unrelenting rain did not stop the community from coming out to support the festival. The crowd was rewarded with a constant flow…

By Lucas Nowicki South African Airways (SAA) under the new leadership of CEO Vuyani Jarana will stop all flights to Port Elizabeth and East London, as part of a new business plan to make the company more profitable. The national carrier has been been plagued with corruption and mismanagement over the past decade, costing taxpayers billions in bailouts, including R2 207 billion in June and the proposed R10 billion that is set to be put before Parliament in the next few days. The amount of taxpayers’ money which has been pumped into SAA should correlate with a national airline that considers…