The National Arts Festival has announced the screening of the Royal Ballet’s performance of the CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS OF LEONARD BERNSTEIN, courtesy of Nebula Productions. The screening will take place in the Olive Schreiner Hall at the Monument on Friday 18 May at 7pm. Three Royal Ballet choreographers honour the creative genius of Leonard Bernstein as part of the special worldwide centennial celebration of works created in response to his music. The programme includes two world premieres by Wayne McGregor and Christopher Wheeldon, as well as the first revival of Liam Scarlett’s The Age of Anxiety set to Bernstein’s Symphony No…
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The National Arts Festival is providing the best entertainment in Grahamstown on a Friday nights and coming up is a great line-up of family and adult entertainment. Shows in the Olive Schreiner Hall are at 6pm and 8.30pm and this Friday 11 May you can watch Diary of a Wimpy Kid at the early show; Last King of Scotland at the later showing. Tickets are R30 Full price and R25 for students, children and pensioners. There’s a bar and tuck shop (with popcorn) available. For block bookings email kate@nationalartsfestival.co.za Online bookings at www.webtickets.co.za and tickets available at the door from 5pm Coming up on Friday 18…
Last week Tuesday (24 April) the St Andrew’s College Pipe Band, travelled to Amanzimtoti to prepare for the first National Championship Gathering of the season. The College band finished second in the March Selection to KES and second in the March, Strathspey and Reel event to Jeppe in a field of eight school bands. This meant that the trophy for overall winners was presented to the College band.
VulPro, an NGO that works to safeguard Africa’s vulture population through rescue and rehabilitation, has warned that unless urgent action is taken, South Africa’s electrical grid could be driving our endemic Cape Vulture(Gyps coprotheres) towards extinction. This comes after VulPro recorded a total of 23 vultures of mainly the endemic Cape Vulture either having been killed or permanently damaged on power lines in the country during the month of April. Most incidents were recorded in the North West and Eastern Cape provinces. A VulPro power line survey previously pointed to a mortality rate of around three vultures per month. “The…
More than 200 community and members of various Grahamstown churches, some on horseback and all led by the Eastern Cape SAPS band, joined hands and marched down Raglan Road to the Grahamstown Police Station on Beaufort Street. The peace march was part of the African Enterprise Mission under way in Grahamstown and the purpose was to show appreciation to the members of the SAPS for their ongoing commitment and dedication in serving the community. At the police station they handed a certificate of appreciation to the Cluster Commander Brigadier David Kanuka, who thanked the community and said that this…
A 27-year-old passenger on a long-distance bus will appear in the Grahamstown Magistrate’s Court this week on a charge of possession of dagga. “Monday 20 April at 4.50pm, members of the Grahamstown Highway Patrol Unit stopped and searched a long distance bus at the Monument on the N2 and checked a suitcase in the luggage compartment and found that it contained five large parcels of dagga,” said police spokesperson Captain Mali Govender. The officers linked the suitcase to a 27-year-old female passenger who was travelling from Mthatha. The dagga weighed 14.4kg and has an estimated value of R14 400, Govender…
A 25 year old man will appear in the King William’s Town Magistrate’s court on Wednesday 2 May following his arrest by police in King William’s Town after he allegedly demanded cash from a victim in the early hours of Monday morning. “The terrified victim managed to escape from this gun-wielding suspect who fired a shot and fled,” police spokesperson Captain Mali Govender said. “The South African Police Service who were alerted arrested the suspect.” In the man’s car and at his Dimbaza home, the King William’s Town police tracing unit, crime prevention and…
The police have praised the good work of Warrant officer Koos Tesnar from Grahamstown Detective Centre after taking what appeared to be a light case very seriously. Tesnar received the shoplifting docket of a 53-year-old suspect who had allegedly stolen cheese in Grahamstown. “When he searched for the man’s criminal record, the detective’s findings led to the conviction of a man whose career in criminal activity had spanned 22 years,” police spokesperson Captain Mali Govender said. “The man received a three-year direct sentence without the option of a fine at the Grahamstown Court.” On 16 April 2018, Tesnar had received…
Nissan, which was crowned King of the Hill for both production and modified saloon cars at the 2017 Simola Hill Climb, has entered three category-defining vehicles for this year’s competition. First among the three is a first generation NISMO LEAF race car (RC), which will be piloted by Nissan product manager and test driver Janus Janse van Rensburg. This is the first time in South African history that an all-electric vehicle is entered in a Motorsport SA sanctioned event. “The NISMO LEAF RC is truly special,” says Janse van Rensburg. “It is powered by a completely standard 80 kW…
The Puku Story Festival is open to all – everyone is welcome! Programme details here: [pdf-embedder url=”http://www.grocotts.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/GM1311.pdf”]