“If you’re looking for sympathy, you can find it in the dictionary; between ‘shit’ and ‘syphilis’,” says Gavin Raubenheimer to the group of hikers, after one shows him a splinter embedded in his index finger. The 45-year-old head of Mountain Rescue in KwaZulu-Natal is a man of few words, but when he speaks, he tellsit like it is.
Author: Busisiwe Hoho
Taking your dusty old bicycle out for a spin on a summer’s day is one thing, but cycling across two continents and 18 countries- covering approximately 24 000km- is what some people would call madness.
Riaan Boucher rarely wears gloves or a protective suit when on the job. I marvel as he reaches for a rooftop comb with his bare hands while a cigarette rests comfortably between his lips. Boucher is completely at home in a hive.
Women arrived dressed in their finest traditional attire with their faces painted colourfully. Liberation songs and chants highlighting the plight that women have endured were sung. Young girls danced to the beat of drums and were joined by their mothers and grandmothers on stage.
Leaders of the ongoing national public servants strike have told strikers in Grahamstown to apply “minimum force” to persuade their colleagues who are at work to join the strike.
Tragedy struck the Booi and Faku families when three people suffocated to death at Eluxolweni last week.
Fort Brown police confiscated dagga worth R36 000 along the R67 when they stopped and searched a yellow Mazda 323 driving towards Grahamstown on Friday.
The murder case of the late ANC Youth League regional secretary, Oscar Dondashe was not heard by the High Court as scheduled.
“The thieves and fraudsters in the ANC must be fired and ANC must remain,” said Churchill Ndlazi, the Provincial Treasurer of Sadtu at a meeting organised by Cosatu for teachers on Friday in the City Hall.