In an effort to ensure the safety of the visitors to the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, SAPS deployments are in full swing, Eastern Cape’s SAPS Provincial Commissioner Lieutenant General Liziwe Ntshinga said this week. “We are in full gear to police the 2018 National Arts Festival. There will be enough personnel deployed daily on foot and vehicle patrols. Additional resources will join the deployments. We are working closely with other National, Provincial and Local stakeholders to ensure that our guests and local community feel safe,” said Ntshinga. “There will be enough personnel deployed daily on foot and vehicle…
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Today Wednesday 27 June, the third group of 10 students from Eastcape Midlands TVET College (EMC) left for a 12 month internship in China. In total, EMC has 32 students currently in doing their internships in China. EMC has been identified as one of 15 TVET colleges to send students on a year-long fully funded international training/internship programme in the Mechanical Engineering field. The students come from the Fitting and Machining, Automotive Repair, and Mechatronics programmes. The programme is fully funded and supported by the Chinese Culture & International Education Exchange Centre together with MERSETA. The main purpose of the…
Farmers tend to have steady nerves, but Richard Buckley of Taranaki, New Zealand, stands out. When his trousers exploded one day in August 1933, he calmly threw them out of the window onto the lawn. It probably helped that he wasn’t wearing them at the time. A few months later, another Taranaki farmer was on horseback when his pants started smouldering. Around the same time, a Southland family watched, horrified, as their drying laundry started to scorch on the line. The exploding trousers of 1930s New Zealand were the result of an equation that started with expensive sheep, and took in deforestation, alien invaders,…
Pedro Tabensky. Photo: Supplied Professor Pedro Tabensky, Director of the Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics (AGCLE) at Rhodes University, has developed a learning module for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) under its Education for Justice (E4J) initiative. The module forms part of the E4J University Module Series on Integrity and Ethics, and is accompanied by a teaching guide with pedagogical guidance. In response to the Doha Declaration, which aims to reduce corruption globally, the Series is aimed at helping university lecturers, who have little or no ethics training, to make ethics an integral part of…
On several occasions they have just escaped me. I tried numerous times to catch this secret painters. From Upper Robinson Street down to Beaufort Street they escaped me, and then on one sunny Saturday morning I caught them red handed with red, blue, yellow and green paint and lots of paintbrushes! A bunch of eight of them, friendly and spontaneously and they have just carried on painting and making this old bus stop bench look like brand new. Why will they offer their precious Saturdays to paint substations and benches? I met Edri Myburgh, a member of the NG Church…
Grahamstown Round Table 11 in conjunction with Settler City Toyota and the Joza SAPS are collaborating this year to collect clothing, blankets, cash donations, and non-perishable foods for those in desperate need during the cold winter months. The Winter Knights campaign is part of the national Round Table project run annually during the winter months. Starting in 2010, Winter Knights has collected millions of Rands of items and brought a small bit of relief to those in need. This year we are looking to make an even greater impact. In 2016 and 2017, Grahamstown Round Table 11 collaborated with staff from the Joza SAPS to distributed…
By Cathy Gush Trading Live is a Rhodes-led initiative with a week of activities that pair a range of different actors and organisations in the town through the sharing of time, skills and other assets to honour the legacy of Nelson Mandela and build the Grahamstown community. Recognising the value of such an initiative in building of social cohesion, the Nelson Mandela Foundation has approached the RUCE Office to produce a guide that will enable other universities to run similar programmes across the country. Since Mandela Day – 18 July – often falls within the University vacation period, it was decided in 2012…
Environmental Affairs Minister Dr Edna Molewa has published the National Climate Change Bill in Government Gazette 41689 (Notice No. 636) for public comment. “The purpose of the Bill is to build an effective climate change response and ensure the long-term, just transition to a climate resilient and lower carbon economy and society. “This will be done within the context of sustainable development for South Africa, and will provide for all matters related to climate change,” the Department of Environmental Affairs said in a statement. The National Climate Change Bill addresses issues related to institutional and coordination arrangement across the three…
Daniel Baines’s new book “How to Get a SARS Refund” provides a straight forward approach to addressing the questions and concerns of first time and novice taxpayers. If you have ever wondered what the first steps were when embarking on your personal ‘E-filing’ journey towards a tax refund, then this book will leave you far more comfortable. Baines is a successful tax practitioner with an LLB and MCom (Taxation) from Rhodes University and a frequent expert contributor to a column on tax in The EP Herald. “How to Get a SARS Refund” provides simple examples for each section from ‘Capital…
The R63 between Adelaide and Fort Beaufort is closed because of protest action that saw a municipal rubbish truck torched last night, Monday 18 June. Police spokesperson Captain Mali Govender said police were today monitoring a group of around 300 community members moving around the Adelaide town centre. Govender said community members had blockaded the road to Fort Beaufort yesterday as a result of the Mayor not attending a scheduled meeting to discuss service delivery issues. “A municipal refuse truck was set alight and burnt out last night,” Govender said. “A case of Malicious Damage to Property case was opened…