The Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa (FMCSA) launched its globally successful Driving Skills for Life (DSFL) programme in South Africa recently.
Author: Busisiwe Hoho
Local football clubs gathered at JD Dlephu stadium over the weekend in what was a spectacular Best of the Best Football Tournament for local-based first teams. The initiative was organised by Grahamstown's leading football club, Grocott's Mail Eleven Attackers, to revive the spirit of soccer for the first teams who have had a period of four months off season.
Graeme College wil be hosting a fun touch rugby tournament to raise funds for the U13A rugby team who are attending a festival in Cape Town next year. “Of the 20 boys who will be on tour, 16 of them have never been to Cape Town and 15 of them have never been on a plane,” says Craig Holman, organiser of the tour.
The Makana Amateur Boxing Organisation (Makabo) visited Port Alfred on Saturday where a group of local junior boxers took part in the Cacadu district trials.
Grahamstown Bowling Club (GBC) are the current log leaders in the Eastern Areas Bowling Association men’s first league. Round four of the league was hosted by the GBC on Sunday and they kept their lead on the log by beating the Kenton team.
Terri-Lynn Penney, a local athlete, will represent South Africa at the Dextro Energy ITU Triathlon Championship in Budapest, Hungary from 8 to 12 September. But she says it’s been a tough road so far due to some injuries and raising funds for her trip.
We are about to go into the fourth week of the civil servants’ strike. Most Grahamstown schools have taken part in the strike which is hitting our matric learners the hardest, with hazardous consequences predicted for the overall exam results at the end of the year, as always.
Kingswood College went up against a determined Graeme College side in a fast and physical encounter at Graeme’s Somerset Field on Saturday afternoon. The game’s tempo was set in the opening movement when Graeme flank Dalu January flattened Kingswood’s Captain Jason Collet with a big hit from the first kickoff.
Six Grahamstown swimmers aged between 14 and 18 will compete against Olympic gold medallists and professionals at the Telkom South African National Short Course Swimming Championships in Pietermaritzburg this week.
In many respects Grahamstown enjoys a much higher profile than its size and economic fire-power would warrant. After all, it is only just a teeny city, sort of halfway between two medium sized cities. Many people on the N2 highway surely pass us by at high speed with only a casual sideways glance at the sleepy hollow and the massive Settlers’ Monument block.