Author: Zimkhitha

The season of joy, peace, love, sharing and gifts has arrived, but unfortunately this season is not as joyous for everyone as it could be.

Hello, it’s me again – Mary Christmas, Father Christmas’ sister. I met you last year and just like last year, my brother refused to lend me the reindeer, but he did lend me his seven league boots so it only took me two days to walk here. I suppose he thinks I should lose weight – he can talk!

The Smirnoff 1818 Raga Bolo Street Soccer Challenge will no longer be played in Grahamstown. The national event, which saw various zones being played across the country and in all regions last year, has seen some major changes. One such change is to scrap the Grahamstown zone, which now falls under the Port Elizabeth zone.

The million rand state-of-the-art cash wash owned by Makana Municipality will be leased to Liyakhanya Car Wash as soon as the paperwork is complete.

Ghishma Barry, the Eastern Cape MEC for Transport, Safety and Liaison officially announced that the first phase of Mthatha Airport upgrade has commenced. Barry was addressing the provincial legislature during the debate of the annual report submitted by the Department of Roads and Transport

Local athlete Thembinkosi "Teabag" Mdyogolo competed in the Nedbank Soweto Marathon on 1 November. Mdyogolo had received a sponsorship from the municipality’s Special Programmes Unit to travel to Johannesburg to compete at the event, which also covered his accomodation.

Grahamstown police did not know that the by-laws regulating liqour trading hours have been passed and therefore have not been preventing establishments from selling at illegal hours.

The strong winds in October which left nine houses without roofs and uprooted trees has cost the municipality more than R4 700 worth of damage. This was revealed in a damage report which was tabled in front of the Makana council’s social services portfolio committee this week. On 26 October a strong wind blew roofs off houses and nine households were affected.

Mdantsane music group Manskap is a contemporary hip-hop group who took East London by storm in 2007 with their debut mix album entitled Mdantsane. They released their second, self-titled album Manskap late last year, which sold more than 50 000 copies in the Eastern Cape and throughout South Africa, especially in Johannesburg.

Learners from Victoria Primary School enthusiastically supported the sixth event in the 2009 BSG Energade Kids Triathlon Series at Pollock Beach in Port Elizabeth on Sunday and in the process won a R5 000 incentive prize for the school.