Ben Mafani is Glenmore’s patriarch, its champion. His athletic frame understates his age, his nimble mind, uncompromising conviction. It’s easy to understand why he is dubbed the Mandela of Glenmore. A former boxer who now teaches the sport to many of the local youths, a handful forming an informal honour guard as he navigates the hot Sunday streets.
Author: Busisiwe Hoho
“I personally believe that there is no better investment that we can make than creating opportunities for young people to acquire good quality education.
In the movie Notting Hill William Thacker (Hugh Grant) has just had a fight with Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) and his chums are trying to cheer him up. So they unleash a string of potential bedfellows. The girls are all rather strange “Where is the booze? Come on Will, let’s get sloshed!” one of them declares as she storms into the lounge.
Our water supply On Monday 8 February the Vice- Chancellor of Rhodes University, Dr Saleem Badat held a forum to discuss the current water supply crisis in Grahamstown at the Barratt lecture theatre at Rhodes.
Joao De Fonseca started his musical career at the age of 11 by staging concerts for his parents in their home. Now he goes by the name J’Something and has come a long way from the living room stages. He is currently recording an album with Soul Candi in Johannesburg and has just returned from a tour in Portugal.
Over 650 pupils and their coaches will flock to the Hoërskool PJ Olivier sports grounds this weekend as the 13th annual Frans Erasmus U13 rugby and netball tournament takes place. The weekend’s fixtures are scheduled to start at 11am this morning, with the PJ vs Adelaide and the Grahamstown 15 vs Ankervas rugby teams starting the proceedings.
Following increased concerns relating to the quality of tap water in Grahamstown, Rhodes University Vice Chancellor Dr Saleem Badat chose water quality in Grahamstown as the subject of debate at the VC Public Forum on Monday.
The Makana Brick 8km Nite Race took place through the streets of Grahamstown on Wednesday evening, with over 600 participants eager to receive their pineapple and medal for finishing.
LAST weekend two boys aged 11 and eight were sodomised in Zolani. Residents of the surrounding informal settlements have been left shocked and angry after the brutal assault. A man allegedly broke into a shack and sodomised the two boys. It is believed that the two cousins were asleep when they were attacked in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The Grahamstown Riding Club hosted a successful multi- disciplinary show on Saturday and Sunday. The two-day competition consisted of ungraded showing, show jumping and dressage as well as graded show jumping and dressage. In the first ungraded showing class, the Showing Riding Horse, Louise Bowker from Grahamstown took first place on her horse Swazi Lizkhar Winter Jewel.