By CHESLEY DANIELS Host Templeton High 1st XV recorded a hard-fought 10-7 win against Alexandria High in their School’s Friendly Rugby encounter played in Bedford on Saturday. Scores were level 7-7 at halftime, clearly highlighting the titanic battle between the two talented and skilful sides. In perfect weather conditions for rugby and with a large local crowd in full support, the clash lived up to expectations by delivering entertaining and running rugby from both sides. The game was played at a high pace and great intensity – a brutal affair with constant physicality throughout. It was a game of two…
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By EVAN ROBINSON-JOHNSON, reporter for Jackson Hole News & Guide A high school car wash fundraiser in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA, to support the stipend of a Ntsika Secondary School math and science teacher earned R39 000 ($2,440) in cash on Friday 6 May, with more donations expected through an online Venmo link. The funds directly support Fundisile Mgoqi, a volunteer maths and science teacher at Ntsika Senior Secondary School, who currently receives a stipend from the school. Jackson teens met with Ntsika students on Zoom before planning the fundraiser to learn more about life in the township. They also competed…
The Abakhuseli Skills for Life Project provides an empowering and dignified space for community members who assist and protect motorists – otherwise known as car guards – to express themselves, develop skills, and build autonomy and self-development. Abakhuseli members want to be differentiated from the criminals and pretenders on the street and be recognised for their dedication to their occupation, themselves, and this community. SAM BABAYA reports from the joyous launch of this uniquely Makhandan empowerment project on the weekend. Uncontrollable smiles erupted on the faces of Abakhuseli Skills for Life members on Saturday, 14 May, during the launch of…
By GARTH SAMPSON, South African Weather Service A steep upper-air trough system will develop into a cut-off low-pressure system over the north-western interior of the country by Friday, 20 May. Widespread rainfall can be expected over the southern and central parts of the country from Thursday onwards, with light snowfalls likely over the mountainous, high-lying areas of the Western and Eastern Cape, spreading to the Lesotho Drakensberg regions by the weekend, where heavier falls are anticipated. 24-hour rainfall accumulations of 25 to 35 mm can also be expected over the drought-stricken parts of the Eastern Cape, including Makhanda. A cold…
By CHRIS TOTOBELA On Saturday afternoon, football lovers returned to JD Dlepu stadium in numbers to witness the second leg of the Makana LFA Premier league championship play-offs between X1 Attackers and City Pirates. The game started a few minutes later than the scheduled kick-off time. Thembalethu Vaaltyn opened the scoring for Attackers with a well-taken header, and Livile Kleyi equalised later in the game from the penalty spot. The referee eventually stopped the game while both teams were locked at 3-3 on penalties due to the encroaching darkness. The game had to be replayed on Sunday. The kickoff started…
By THE ABAKHUSELI TEAMAbakhuseli Skills for Life Project is a Makhanda-based initiative developed with local car guards, working towards empowerment, integration and dignity for each member. This is a grassroots project born out of the hard lockdown of March 2020. Overnight, Makhanda’s car guards’ work disappeared when they were ordered to stay out of town. During this time, the Makhanda Circle of Unity distributed regular grocery parcels and Skills for Life pamphlets to these community members. In November 2020, these members met as a group, and the first Abakhuseli meeting was held. At the meeting, the group chose the name…
By CHESLEY DANIELS Rosebuds 1st XV registered their second win in the EPRU Sedru Regional League Competition with a clinical 30-15 bonus-point win over Ndlambe Tigers at the Alicedale Sports Ground on Saturday. The home side had already taken a firm 13-5 lead at the break. The encounter was played in cold and wet weather conditions, but heated, confrontational and entertaining rugby was the order of the day. Rosebuds’ spirits and confidence were high after registering their first win the previous weekend. Tigers were up for the challenge, and their bigger and mobile forwards took the game to the home…
By CHRIS TOTOBELA Makhanda’s only hope for regional glory ended abruptly as Maru fell short of claiming victory. Maru drew the first game against home side United Brothers two goals apiece. It was a matter of so near yet too far when they threw away a three-goal lead only to share the spoils with Camdeboo 4-4. The victory in their last game against Wits was just a formality because the home side, United Brothers, had already clinched the title. Maru’s head coach Andile Bobotyana saw the light at the end of the tunnel: “These games are always not easy, and…
By ROD AMNER and OVAYO MILISA NOVUKELA The Grahamstown Business Forum (GBF) and the Makana Residents Association (MRA) have threatened to take the Makana Municipality back to court over its ballooning Eskom current account debt, which stood at R29.2-million in March. GBF chairperson Richard Gaybba said he was astonished to read a report from the last Makana Council meeting in March, announcing that the municipality had paid off the last of the arrears it owed to Eskom. Gaybba said it was “disingenuous” to claim that the last of that Eskom arrears had been paid off this year because, by March,…
By LIKHAPHA THAATHAA and ROD AMNER Makana Traffic Department clerks are back at their stations after a rescue agreement was struck with the Makana Council to retain their services, according to Makana Traffic chief Coenraad Hanekom. The department was closed recently because several cashiers who had been ‘temporarily loaned’ to them by the Makana Municipality were redeployed. Hanekom said he sent 14 reminders to the Makana human resources department over five months to advertise and fill the posts. The clerical posts have now been advertised. The closing date for applications is 20 May 2022. However, after they are hired, the…