Starvation and not just hunger and malnutrition has become a feature of life for many impoverished kids. They need solutions for the long term that go beyond charity. New Frame’s ANNA MAJAVU reports. A new campaign against child starvation will hold public hearings on children affected by malnutrition and take the government to the Constitutional Court for violating children’s rights to food and life. The Children’s Resource Centre (CRC), a Cape Town-based social movement for children, has invited all “organisations of the people to form a broad-based social movement to launch a long-term programme of action to save South Africa’s…
Author: Rod Amner
By MZWAMADODA MAKALIMA The Makhanda-born organiser of the Ndlambe Music Festival, Siyabulela Madyo, recently initiated an outreach programme in Port Alfred. Madyo’s company Lutifusion used some of the December 2021 Festival revenue to donate school shoes, roll-on deodorant and sanitary pads to Ndlambe schoolchildren. An outreach programme, directed by Godukile Mbolekwa, was attended by Ndlambe Municipality Mayor Khululwa Ncamiso, Speaker Andile Malgas, ward councillors, teachers and pupils from various public schools in the area of Ndlambe Municipality. A group photo at the outreach event. Photo: supplied Ndlambe Music Festival – a collaboration between Lutifusion, Ndlambe Municipality, SAB and Sanral -…
By ROD AMNER Retired Rhodes University librarian Eileen Shepherd has won the fundraising quilt sewn and stitched by the Quilters of Grahamstown (QUOGS) for the people of Ukraine. Shepherd’s lucky number (130) was drawn by Ukrainian national Oleg Kayerleber at QUOG Karen Davies’ home in West Hill on Wednesday afternoon. Raffle tickets were sold online in several countries worldwide, netting R41 000 for the Disasters Emergency Committee fund for Ukraine. Shepherd said she was “thrilled to be the proud owner of this work of art so painstakingly created by these talented ladies”. “What a wonderful surprise to receive a call…
By ANDREW MARTIN On Saturday, April 30, Makhanda hosted one of its largest-ever assemblages of chess players. More than 200 players from Makhanda, East London, Port Alfred, Alice, Mthatha, Jeffrey’s Bay, Butterworth, and other surrounding areas converged for a rapid tournament in which players had about 25 minutes per side. The tournament prizes were sponsored by Kelotlhoko Property Services, with Chris Oosthuizen of Redwood Spur donating burgers and chips to the development section players and officials. Development section participants enjoy a meal sponsored by Redwood Spur. In the A section consisting of 44 players, we had four players – Tshediso…
By AYANDA KOTA, Makana Citizens Front (MCF) In our view, Philip Machanick and Sally Price-Smith, the past and present leaders of the Makana Residents Association (MRA) have misrepresented the facts in their recent letters to Grocott’s Mail. They have chosen the gutter politics of slander. We will maintain the high moral ground. We wish we could come together and work as a town for the common good despite our differences — even deep disagreements. Failure to do this will harm all of us and help perpetuate the problems that motivated the formation of the Makana Citizens Front (MCF) in the…
By CHRIS TOTOBELA Makhanda’s SAB regional league top side Maru is hard at training, preparing for this weekend’s regional playoffs. Maru will face other stream winners in Addo to try and become Sarah Baartman district’s champions. The playoffs will be played over two days – Saturday, 7 and Sunday, 8 May. Maru will come up against the home side United Brothers in the first game at 3 pm. In the second game, they will play Camdeboo Academy on Sunday at 8 am before locking horns with Wits at 4 pm. Despite a tough season, Maru head coach Andile Bobotyana said,…
By CHRIS TOTOBELA Boxing fans packed the Hlalani community hall on Saturday to witness the best amateur boxing this province offers. Makhanda played host to Eastern Cape Amateur Boxing provincial championships. Sarah Baartman district boxers exchanged blows with their counterparts from Buffalo City, Nelson Mandela Bay, OR Tambo, Joe Gqabj, Chris Hani, Amathole and Alfred Nzo. Despite missing some of their best boxers from Jeffreys Bay, Graaff-Reinet and Somerset East due to transport problems, Sarah Baartman did well by finishing third overall behind Buffalo City and Nelson Mandela Bay. Well-known coach and local organising committee member Bulelani Ndwayana praised the…
By CHRIS TOTOBELA All roads led to JD Dlepu stadium this past weekend for the Makana LFA U18 tournament. All teams looked very sharp and prepared for this event, and the margins in the final scores were not significant. Some blazing hot encounters got the huge crowd on their feet. The teams knocked each other out as early as Saturday morning, and we were only left with four teams on Monday. In the first semi-final, City Pirates fought very hard to beat the on-form Black Stars 2-1. In the other semi-final, defending champions, Sophia Young Stars, locked horns with Young…
By LOYISO DYONGMAN Local brew, Wonkidonki African Pale Ale, will be available during this year’s National Arts Festival to all licensed venues. Featherstone Breweries owner William Yell said Wonkidonki had been in development for some time. “I have brewed a few small batches as trials that all went well with minor changes each time. It is a lager style beer and aimed to be a lighter beer. But, it’s settled at an average of five per cent alcohol by volume, which seems to be the level expected by SA beer drinkers. “It is labelled an African Pale Ale. Although not…
By PHILIP MACHANICK Democratic Alliance (DA) Makana constituency leader Kevin Mileham’s piece in Grocott’s Mail, The pitfalls of supporting fly-by-night political start-ups addresses what can go wrong but also illustrates why we should not give up on a movement like the Makana Citizens Front (MCF). What surprised me most was that he had no comment on violations of the rule of law and the anti-democratic attack by the Council Speaker on his own councillors. Statements he makes about the essentials of a viable organisation are correct, but his arrogant assumption that we don’t know about this is typical of the…