One of Grahamstown’s favourite restaurants is two years old this month and to say thank you to the town, they are giving back in a delicious way! Sole owner Craig Foord said two years after their grand launch, Mugg & Bean are more delicious, and more popular than ever. To celebrate, they recently launched their breakfast special – a complimentary flat white cappuccino when you order from the all-day breakfast category in the menu. Times are tough and pockets are empty – but Mugg & Bean’s menu offers great value for money. “We have a unique menu which is updated every…
Author: Nomfundo Nondzube
In only four months Evolve Fitness has had a good reception from Grahamstown residents who want to change their lifestyles and live a better life. The well equiped gym facility has qualified and specialized trainers that help clients achieve their targets. “We opened in June this year and have had a very good turn out,” said Shane Engelbrecht who is a personal trainer at Evolve Fitness. He explained that they offer one-on-one personal training and calisthenics body weight training for their clients. He is joined by three colleagues: Matt Short who specializes in martial arts and movement, Nicholas Bruce who…
A Social Accountability Knowledge Distribution event was held at Noluthando Hall recently. Service delivery, water and sanitation, housing, lighting, roads and dumping sites were among the concerns raised. Activist and Grahamstown resident Nosigqibo Soxujwa said while these problems existed before democracy, things were getting worse. The first speaker at the event, she said the cause of the probolems was demarcation. “In town, they don’t face the same problems as us. I think Joza has the worst water crisis because when you open a tap, either the water is not clean or there is no water at all,” she said. She…
By Nomfundo Nondzube and Lindani Donyeli Malnutrition affects children’s growth and development – yet there are many families in Grahamstown that struggle to make ends meet. Ward 2 councillor Ramie Xonxa convened a meeting about food security at the Department of Housing in Joza on Wednesday 14 September. The aim was to establish a Ward Food Security Committee to include the departments of Agriculture, Education, Works, Health, Social Development, Home Affairs, SAPS and Makana Municipality. According to Section 27 of the Constitution of South Africa, food security is a constitutional right and every citizen has the right to have access to sufficient food…
ANC provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane is confident that the party’s provincial conference scheduled for 27 to 30 September 2017 will continue, despite a court challenge questioning the standing of its biggest delegation. Meanwhile, lawyers who will be arguing in the Mthatha High Court next Thursday for the outcome of the 2015 OR Tambo regional elective conference to be nullified have warned that going ahead with the provincial conference could contaminate it and make it vulnerable to litigation. ANC branch member in the party’s OR Tambo region, Bandile Ntamo, in April brought an application in the Mthatha High Court for the outcome…