Road closure for widening of Great Fish River Bridge in the Eastern Cape
Author: _Gr0cCc0Tts_
When the car Noluthabo Maliza had been sitting in outside the magistrate’s court in Peddie last Friday went missing, Nomatolo Vellem was annoyed.
“It seems like people have given up,” Michael Wynne told Grocott’s Mail, briefly looking up from the task of removing a poster from an electricity meter box last Saturday.
Eskom this week accepted a payment plan from Makana for its R53 million debt. This comes just over a week after the municipality submitted the third version of a proposal for paying off the rest of its debt to the power utility.
A swift response by a private security company led the arrest of one of three men who used a toy firearm to rob an Extension 10 spaza shop in the lead-up to last weekend.
With around 300 students having chosen to defer their final exams, Rhodes University will open a week later than usual in 2017 and has introduced online registration to make the process easier.
After four days (spread over two weekends) and six games, the Albany Bowling Club mixed pair of Billy Krige and Marlene Jacobs won their section in the Eastern Areas Mixed Pairs event.
Around 10 000 social grant recipients registered for matric in 2016 dropped out before their final exams, Minister of Social Development, Bathabile Dlamini said at the announcement of social grant recipients and Isibindi matric results at the Government Communication and Information Service in Pretoria earlier this month.
Around 70 alumni of the Grahamstown Teachers Training College gathered in Grahamstown for the 40th anniversary of its closure.
Grahamstown made its mark at the media launch of the inaugural Abantu Book Festival in Soweto.