Makana Municipality has allocated R2.5-million for the construction of a bus terminus and public toilets in Bathurst Street, to be built in the vicinity of where buses currently arrive and depart, opposite the Frontier Country Hotel.
Author: Busisiwe Hoho
Thirteen Victoria Girls’ High School pupils have been suspended after they were accused of eating marijuana muffins at the school last week.
Mary Royi is a Grade 6 pupil at Victoria Girls’ Primary School. Described by her teacher, Jeannie Ellis, as a “superb athlete” this feisty 11-year-old seems shy at first, but as soon as she gets onto the topic of sport, her words hurtle over each other in a race to be heard.
The 13th annual OD Inggs Memorial Run, held in honour of the unforgettable classic automobile enthusiast Oliver Douglas Inggs who passed away at the age of 88 in 1997, takes place on 20 and 21 March. The run will start at the Grahamstown Golf Club at 9.30am on Saturday with a lunch stop at the NG Kerk in Adelaide.
The Adopt-a-Ball project that was launched in January this year has almost reached its goal. Local businessman and organiser of the project Campbell Wescott says they have collected R30 000 of this year’s target of R300 000.
Did she jump or was she pushed? This is the question family members of a trainee skydiver are asking after her narrow escape from death on Saturday at the Grahamstown airfield.
Grahamstown Brumbies may have lost 5-9 to Trying Stars in a friendly rugby encounter on Saturday, but Brumbies President Maasdorp Cannon said they are not too worried about the results as the match was a good learning curve for the side.
The Rhodes Student Representative Council (SRC) is concerned about the university’s delayed action against students who assaulted a campus security guard in early February this year.
Wit h Grahamstown’s extreme water shortages rainwater tanks seem to be the people’s choice for alternative watersourcing. The Kowie Catchment Campaign urges residents on its website to “harvest rainwater by installing a tank beside your house and collect free rainwater off your roof”.
Friends, admirers and colleagues of Grahamstown poet Don Maclennan gathered to honourhis memory on the one-year anniversary of his death this weekend.