DO I have your attention now? Good. Then erase and replace with: With friends like these, who needs enemies? The point is the media – and especially the Western kind – are always up for a juicy story.
Author: Zimkhitha
The old bolted up Grahamstown Station looks like just the kind of setting for the shooting of an old time western movie
Organisers of the National Arts Festival are doing all they can to ensure a smooth run for this year’s bumper edition of the Festival.
The poorly functioning ambulance service in Grahamstown is attributed to the low morale of ambulance staff induced by mismanagement and deplorable working conditions, says an anonymous member of the local ambulance services.
The Grahamstown-based Unemployed People’s Movement is taking advantage of a piece of legislation that allows members of the public to demand information from government authorities.
On 27 January, a milestone was achieved when old met new and the main entrance to the new section of the Rhodes University library building was opened to users after 18 months of construction. VIEW PHOTO GALLERY
Prof Tebello Nyokong, a L’Oreal/Unesco Women in Science laureate, will give the opening address at Scifest Africa which takes place from 24 to 30 March in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape.
Gordon Ballantyne, a Grade 12 pupil at Graeme College and winner of the 2009 National Eskom Expo for Young Scientists, has returned from a very successful visit to Sweden.
The widescale problem of unequal and irregular-shaped sites in Extension 6 has led to a fight breaking out between adjacent neighbours over an allegedly encroaching wall that separates their respective premises.
Farmers in the Grahamstown area are facing tough times as the drought currently ravaging the region continues to cause severe damage. Stock farmer Ntombomzi Ngcani says: “We have lost all that we were hoping to harvest, all of our potatoes and mealies were literally burnt by the sun, we didn’t get anything.”