The embattled Makana municipality yesterday suspended its municipal manager, Ntombi Baart, over allegations relating to her conduct in council meetings.
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Unusual performance spaces are a feature of the 38th National Arts Festival, which runs from 28 June to 8 July in Grahamstown this year.
A Rhodes University graduate was stabbed to death on Thursday afternoon while hitchhiking from Port Elizabeth to Grahamstown for her graduation ceremony that evening.
This year, the Standard Bank Jazz Festival programme, taking place alongside the 38th National Arts Festival (from 28 June to 8 July in Grahamstown), is developed around six distinct genres of Jazz. The themes are Youth, World Music / Gospel, Cross-over Jazz, Afro-Jazz, Mainstream Jazz and Modern Jazz.
I’m sure some of our wealthier Grahamstown citizens were left muttering angrily about the communist membership of our Finance Minister after the recent national budget announcement. The increases in capital gains tax, tax on dividends and tax relief that skewed towards lower income earners would not have made them happy.
One of the first people to offer help after a fire at Victoria Girls' High School last week was Piet Snyders, principal of Hoerskool PJ Olivier, less than half a kilometre away, whose own school was gutted by fire three days earlier.
A veld fire that started in the valley behind Hoërskool P.J. Olivier this afternoon has caused extensive damage to two of the school’s R600 000 four-month-old IT labs as well as their biology lab.
Brookshaw Home for the Aged was founded 50 years ago, but its rich history extends much further into the past than its birthday would suggest. Alan Bamford, a resident in the home since 2003, has compiled this timeline to delve into the who, what, when and why of one of Grahamstown's most historically interesting homes for the elderly.
What could be the most surprising announcement from the Finance Minister this year in his annual Budget speech?
Intoxicated customers, underage drinking, driving under the influence, pregnant women and drinking, will be some of the issues dealt with in a new programme launched in the Eastern Cape, aimed at promoting the responsible trading of alcohol.