Five weeks until Grahamstown’s serious (and not so serious) cyclists will be lining up bright and early for the start of the fifth Makana Brick Grocott’s Cycle Tour, organised by Grahamstown Round Table and Rhodes University Cycling Club.
Author: Busisiwe Hoho
In a fast and free flowing game, hosts Kingswood College 1st XI played against their archrivals, St Andrews College on the City Lords Astroturf. Both teams played some good hockey, although neither team was able to gain the advantage over their opponents.
The honour of being the winner will be up for grabs when Kingswood College hosts St Andrew’s College for K-Day at City Lords on Saturday afternoon.
Held in Lesotho last week, the three day snowboarding festival Quiksnow 2010 ended with a Grahamstown competitor winning gold. Bradley Stephenson finished second in the Giant Slalom event on the opening day.
Thinking of starting a business? The Rhodes Business Society Market day on Saturday outside Alec Mullins Sports Centre might have been a quiet one, but that did not prevent budding student entrepreneurs from shedding ten pearls of wisdom about the do’s and don’ts of starting up a new trade.
Jesus is the perfect human being: he’s white, blue eyed, and speaks in God’s own tongue, English. Right? If you have glowing brown skin like Azola Joe, this assumption makes you far from perfect, but that’s what the posters on the walls of Farmer Field Intermediate School in the Eastern Cape illustrate.
Parts of Vukani, Fingo Village, Joza and New Town are still without water despite the municipality assuring them that it will be turned on this week.
A father accused of murdering his two children was found guilty in the Grahamstown High Court yesterday. Peter Shaw (36), who chose to say nothing to the court during the proceedings, has been ordered by Judge Jeremy Pickering to undergo psychological assessment before being sentenced.
Grahamstown police are investigating charges of reckless and negligent driving after two cars collided in Raglan Road and left several passengers seriously injured.
Joza resident and pensioner, Lungisa Ngcete said she has lived without her own supply of water for about five or six years.