Author: Michael Salzwedel

The National Arts Festival Fringe is (in)famous for its gargantuan Comedy line-up, and with more than 40 gigs (including 19 premières) on the 2011 programme, it will again be a place to let the hair down this year.

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More than 350 productions, exhibitions and concerts will again provide a platform to showcase the work of emerging and established artists from around South Africa, Africa and the world on the 2011 National Arts Festival Fringe, from 30 June to 10 July in Grahamstown.

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Magistrate Louis Claassen of the Grahamstown Magistrate's Court today found army corporal Zingisile Ephraim Nikelo, 41, guilty of culpable homicide, after Nikelo drove into and killed well-known Grahamstown resident Dave Hanton in April 2010.

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From July, an average Grahamstown household could soon be paying well over R1 000 a month for electricity, and human rights organisation the Black Sash has warned that this will “squeeze the life and breath” from households across the economic spectrum.

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It was a fair question — and my small band of a dozen travelers answered it many times during a week-long visit to Grahamstown in January.

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