Tiger Wheel & Tyre tops The results of The Times Sowetan Shopper Survey 2017 are in and they reveal that Tiger Wheel & Tyre continues to dominate the Tyre Fitment category, with what the publisher describes as its “standing in both the market place and in people’s heads.” This is the ninth time that Tiger Wheel & Tyre has come out tops in the Tyre Fitment category of this annual, national survey conducted by The Sowetan and The Times newspapers in association with leading research house TNS. Goodyear gets new MD Jean-Jacques Wiroth, Managing Director of Goodyear South Africa and…
Author: Stephen Penney
The 2017 Tourism educators in conjunction with the learners have embarked on a tour that would make a lifetime mind shift. The Cape Town / Oudtshoorn Tour has been blessed from the word go. The staff, principal, parents and learners were passionate about getting this done. Parents like Marcelle Burgess, Sergio Rademeyer, Marilyn Witbooi, Jamela Oerson and Felicia Rademeyer formed a committee that was dedicated to making this tour a success. They fundraised and sacrificed their time to sell burgers at school and at other events. Many local entrepreneurs were willing to assist these underprivileged children. Mr. Tokwe and Mr…
Cabinet has approved the National Minimum Wage Bill, Basic Conditions of Employment Amendment Bill and Labour Relations Amendment Bill. These bills will now be submitted to the National Assembly and National Council of Provinces for concurrence and enactment. In February 2017, representatives from government, business, labour and the community sector signed agreements at the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) on measures to strengthen labour stability and collective bargaining and on how to introduce a National Minimum Wage. The bills will appear in the Government Gazette on 10 November 2017 and can be found at www.labour.gov.za. The National Minimum…
Hundreds of athletes took to the streets of Grahamstown on Thursday 19 October for the annual Rapportryers Hoërskool PJ Olivier 5km Fun Run/Walk. This year’s event attracted over 300 entries, and R12 000 raised for the Grahamstown Residents’ Association (GRA). The race was won by Masixole Xayiya in 20 minutes 07 seconds; followed home by Stegman van Zyl in 20:30. DSG pupil, Kendal Rose was the women’s winner in 22:42, followed by Terri-Lynn Penney in 25:52 and Jene Banfield in 26:11. The first PJ Olivier pupil home was Daniel Retief who finished in 23:32. The 5km athletes made their way along…
The annual Pick n Pay Albany Bowling Club Night League is at the business end, with play-offs taking place next week, leading to the finals on 10 November. Twenty four teams divided into two sections that have been playing on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at the Albany Bowling Club, in a series of round robin games that began on 3 October. At the end of this week’s games, the top teams will move into the play-offs where the top four teams from each section will play in the quarterfinals on Tuesday 7 November. Meanwhile, the next four from each section will…
St Mary’s Roman Catholic Primary School held its Inter-house Athletics Day at the Oval sports grounds last Friday. Pupils took part in various track events. Photo: Supplied
The Grade 7 class at Grahamstown Primary held its Entrepreneurs Day at the school last week, selling various items to their fellow school pupils.
Mpho Tutu, who spent much of her childhood in Grahamstown was a guest speaker at the Botho/Ubuntu: A Dialogue on Spirituality, Science and Humanity, A Mind & Life Dialogue with the Dalai Lama, which took place in Gaborone, Botswana in August. Mpho was there to welcome His Holiness the Dalai Lama on behalf of her parents, Leah, and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. In the end, the Dalai Lama was unable to attend the event. In her speech, ‘Ubuntu: An African key to Environmentalism and Sustainability’, Mpho’s exploration of the meaning of ubuntu started right here in Grahamstown. “There is a place called [kwa]NdaNcama…