A huge shout-out to Nita’s Makhanda Events WhatsApp group for these listings. FRIDAY 26 AUGUST Machine Learning & Artificial IntelligenceGuest speakers: Mrs Nomandla Buqa (Business Woman), Prof. Koga Gorejena (Assoc. Prof. – Dept. of Information Systems – North West University), Yveslight Sewelo (Academic, Composer, and Author)@ Nathaniel Nyaluza S. S. School, Cnr. Albert Street & A Street13:00Free entry Gospel Goes Classicalpresented by the Victoria Girls’ High School Choir@ M.G. Richardson Hall, Victoria Girls’ High School17:30R30 Live Music with SivuSlowed down, Contemporary Pop and JazzDrinks specials@ The Pothole and Donkey, 123 High Street19:00 – 21:00Free entry Friday: Road to All Black ExperienceDJs: RS,…
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Jim Cambray recorded 16.6mm of rainfall in Park Road for 18-24 August 2022, while Paul Maylam measured 16.6mm in Cathcart Street for the same period. The temperature ranged from a chilly 4 degrees Celcius to a sticky 30C – quite a range! The AfriWX outlook for above-average spring and early summer rains from October to December looks promising.
By CHESLEY DANIELS Makhandan Leon Coetzee was on Saturday elected as the new president of Eastern Province Cricket Board (EPCB) at its AGM. EPCB-affiliated clubs voted for him to replace Dai Tai Marais, the acting president. Before his election, he served as the vice-president of the EPCB and was in his fifteenth year as president of the Grahamstown Cricket Board (GCB). He is also the current president of Rural Cricket South Africa (RCSA) and Sarah Baartman Cricket Association president. His elevation to the position of Head of Cricket Administration in the Eastern Cape is well deserved and a natural progression…
By CAROLINE SOUTHEY, founding editor, The Conversation Africa Interviewees: MIRIAM MAINA, research associate (African Cities), University of Manchester and SARITA PILLAY, PhD Student at South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning, University of the Witwatersrand When SARS-CoV-2 emerged in South Africa, the country took measures to restrict people’s movements and activities to slow the spread of infections. There were various levels of restrictions, the most severe being in place in March and April 2020. During this “hard lockdown”, many people in South Africa really struggled. Not only did they have financial difficulties, but the lockdown took an emotional…
By NDUMISO KHUMALO, attorney, Rhodes University Law Clinic The National Credit Act (“NCA” or “the Act”) established several important institutions to promote and fulfil the purposes of the Act. The National Credit Regulator The National Credit Regulator (“the NCR”) is an independent organisation governed by a Board, with a Chief Executive Officer who may appoint inspectors and investigators. It oversees the entire consumer credit industry. The NCR has several responsibilities regulated by section 15 of the Act. The NCR is responsible for: registering credit providers, credit bureau and debt counsellors (“the registrants”);monitoring and investigating complaints;reporting to parliament on availability of…
By AKHANYILE NGQIYAZA and MIHLE SABA A 65-year-old Gogo living in Transit Camp, raising her abandoned two-year-old grandson in a leaky one-roomed mud and iron shack, has appealed for help. The toddler was abandoned by his mother when he was still a baby. The woman doesn’t know where her daughter and two other young grandchildren are. Since then, she has lived in a precarious shack built for her by her son on a plot owned by other family members. The tiny three-by-two metre structure is unsuitable for raising a small child, and they use an unserviced ‘bucket’ toilet. The unserviced…
By SOLOMON MAVHUNGU A group of local Azanian People’s Organisation (Azapo) members recently held a silent protest demanding that a monument be erected at the makeshift roadblock on Grey Street where Steve Biko was arrested in Makhanda on 18 August 1977. Azapo also wants the entire length of Grey Street, Beaufort Street and Raglan Road, which runs through the town and into the township, to be renamed Steve Biko Road. The spot Biko was arrested on Grey Street on 18 August 1977. Photo: Azapo Facebook page Last Thursday, Azapo national president Nelvis Qekema handed over a memorandum to Mzobanzi Nkwentsha,…
By KATLEGO NKOSI Born in Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), Heather Ferreira set her sails and studied teaching at UWC. This, however, was not her purpose. She was a born nurturer. This came so naturally to her. I sense this as I converse with her in her warm office. In her sweet but stern voice, she tells me about her second – and chosen – career. In 1990, she applied at the Livingston Hospital for a position she thought she could not get. The application became a seamless acceptance into the best training hospital at the time, coming with a four-year…
By ALYSSA HARRISON There is a bite to the air as Sisipho* sits on an upturned crate with a pillow over it. She pulls a yellow car guard vest over her jersey, her eyes darting as a car pulls up next to her in a parking space. A family walks into a nearby restaurant. “May I look after your car for you?” she calls. Their pace quickens. Their gazes are averted. Sisipho sits at the same street corner every day. Sometimes, people are kind enough to leave a tip. Others drive off without a word. There is no place for…
By ATHI NONDZABA Nina Vermaak is an occupational and yoga therapist who graduated from Stellenbosch University in 2018. In 2019, she moved to Makhanda to complete her community service year at Fort England Hospital, where she worked for three years before opening her own practice here. Occupational therapists work with people of all ages with various health issues. They work to adapt surroundings and tasks to help people live better with disabilities, injuries, or illnesses. Although Vermaak works with adults, her work mainly focuses on children between the ages of four and 16. She says she has always felt an…