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<title>Pepsi drops sponsorship of horse show after video of cruelty </title>
<category>World</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6223</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 09:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Soft drink maker Pepsi said on Thursday (17/05/2012) that it was dropping sponsorship of a prestigious national horse show, one day after ABC News broadcast footage of a horse in training for a show being beaten by a trainer.]]></description>
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<title>Govt to appeal high court finding on sexual offences </title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6222</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 09:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The government will urgently appeal a Western Cape High Court finding that 29 sexual offences are not punishable because the Sexual Offences Act does not specify penalties for them, The Cape Times reported on Friday (18/05/2012).]]></description>
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<title>Mom&amp;#8217;s R1m win in drugs cash probe</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6221</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 09:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A MOTHER&#8217;S windfall of more than R1-million at the Boardwalk Casino in Port Elizabeth has landed her in an international legal battle.]]></description>
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<title>Outrage at threat to gay rights</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6220</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 09:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[EASTERN Cape gay rights activists outraged by the call to have a clause protecting South Africans on the grounds of sexual orientation removed from the constitution will take to the streets this weekend in protest against the House of Traditional Leaders.]]></description>
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<title> Coega steel plant jobs boost for Bay </title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6219</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IN one of the biggest jobs boosts for Nelson Mandela Bay in recent years, a partnership between Bay businessmen and an Indian steel company will see a R400-million Coega smelter create up to 800 jobs over five years.]]></description>
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<title>Moosagie guilty of tax fraud</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6218</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[CONTROVERSIAL businessman Amier Moosagie sat emotionless when he was found guilty on a litany of charges involving fraud, forgery, corruption, money laundering and racketeering involving more than R3-million.]]></description>
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<title>Metro&amp;#8217;s cash reserves dangerously low</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6217</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality&#8217;s precarious financial position was highlighted yesterday when it was revealed the metro had just 20 days&#8217; cash reserves &#8211; well below its minimum 30-day target.]]></description>
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<title> Traffic collections R5.5m under budget</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6216</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality is to probe the poor performance of the traffic and licensing department after a report to councillors revealed that collections for 2011/12 were more than R5.5-million under budget.]]></description>
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<title>'My terrible drug life'</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6215</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I STARTED using drugs when I was in Std 2. I think I was about 11 at the time. My cousin and I were having a sleep-over at a friend&#8217;s house. By the time I was 14, I was hooked on tik.&#8221;
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<title>Govt must hire more black lawyers: Radebe</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6214</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE government wants black lawyers to get a bigger slice of the state&#8217;s multibillion-rand legal bill. Justice Minister Jeff Radebe will introduce a policy this year to force government departments and state-owned enterprises to ensure that black-owned legal firms benefit from the state&#8217;s legal bill.]]></description>
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<title>Varsity device a world first</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6213</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:31:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University has upped its competitive edge in scientific research with the acquisition of a R5.3-million spectrometer &#8211; a first of its kind in the world &#8211; that will speed up the university&#8217;s material analysis.
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<title> Fears of health system collapse</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6212</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE Eastern Cape health system could be weeks from collapse because of &#8220;austerity measures&#8221; and under-budgeting.]]></description>
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<title>Nationalise without compensation banks, mines, telecoms, land, food chains...  cries Numsa</title>
<category>Business</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6210</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) wants the government to nationalise economic sectors including mines, banks, food chains and telecommunications, without compensation.
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<title>Readers' views via SMS</title>
<category>Letters</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6209</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SAD but true, Port Elizabeth has fizzled out! No entertainment, no support and still no ice rink! Plus the job struggles continues. This is a selfish place I call home.]]></description>
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<title>Uitenhage ignored in metro development</title>
<category>Letters</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6208</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I AM not a born Uitenhager, but have lived in this area for a number of years now. I have two children and they like going out.]]></description>
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<title>Course on property industry planned</title>
<category>Business</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6211</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE South African Property Owners&#8217; Association (Sapoa) and the NMMU Business School have joined forces to present the &#8220;Introduction to Commercial Property Programme&#8221; course, to be held in East London and Port Elizabeth next month.]]></description>
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<title>Nothing about ruling party shocks</title>
<category>Letters</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6207</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE Herald headline on May 14 reads &#8220;New health fraud shock&#8221;. Why is it seen as a shock?]]></description>
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<title>Cosatu action damages its credibility</title>
<category>Letters</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6206</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:16:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WITH their actions against the DA march this week (&#8220;DA protest ends in violent chaos&#8221;, May 16), Cosatu and Zwelinzima Vavi have lost a huge amount of support and credibility for the organisation. In the interest of South Africa as a country, the DA was legitimately marching to improve unemployment for the youth]]></description>
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<title>Please clean Donkin</title>
<category>Letters</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6205</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A STROLL around the Donkin on Sunday May 6 left me feeling ashamed of living in Port Elizabeth. There were about 10 tourists in a group also studying the memorial and unexplained statue!]]></description>
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<title>The Herald Bride and Groom</title>
<category>Bride and Groom</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6109</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 04:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Nicole de Coriolis married Eltin van Niekerk at Le Domaine in March. Picture: MELISSA ANDERSON]]></description>
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<title>Disappointing lack of exhibits at Bayworld</title>
<category>Letters</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6191</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I LOVE the old buildings and anything to do with the history of Port Elizabeth. On Saturday my 14-year-old brother-in-law and I decided to go on a little tour of the city and surroundings.]]></description>
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<title>Hole not refilled</title>
<category>Letters</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6192</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IN 2009 the SAPS wanted to build a call centre in Richmond Hill. A hue and cry ensued as the site chosen was an old graveyard.]]></description>
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<title>Take more care on Seaview road</title>
<category>Letters</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6193</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I send my condolences to you, your family and friends for your loss of Mpumelelo (&#8220;Youth killed in &#8216;racist&#8217; hit and run&#8221;, May 14). I came to know Mpumelelo and his friends as very polite and friendly boys who waited each morning on the corner of the old Seaview road and the Seaview road for a lift or to catch the bus to school.]]></description>
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<title>Cosatu obstructs job creation</title>
<category>Letters</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6194</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE massive publicity surrounding the DA&#8217;s march on Cosatu House has placed the DA&#8217;s youth wage subsidy proposal firmly in the public domain. This proposal will create 400000 jobs for young South Africans who are desperate to find employment.]]></description>
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<title>Glued to the TV watching great PSL games</title>
<category>Letters</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6195</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WHAT amazing PSL results over the weekend! On Saturday, I was glued to a big screen at one of my favourite sports taverns (Patido&#8217;s place) in New Brighton watching all the PSL games.
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<title>Glued to the TV watching great PSL games</title>
<category>Letters</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6196</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WHAT amazing PSL results over the weekend! On Saturday, I was glued to a big screen at one of my favourite sports taverns (Patido&#8217;s place) in New Brighton watching all the PSL games.
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<title>Better oversight needed </title>
<category>Letters</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6197</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A SAFE water supply is a &#8220;district competence&#8221;, but for the past 10 years Cacadu District municipal council has delegated responsibility to the often under-resourced and incompetent local municipalities &#8211; of which Koukamma has probably been the worst (hence taken under provincial administration for a while).]]></description>
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<title>Need to realise ANC no better than NP</title>
<category>Letters</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6198</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I AM a non-racial, English-speaking white South African born slap bang in the middle of the 20th century.]]></description>
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<title>No need for two liquor outlets</title>
<category>Letters</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6199</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IN our area where we shop, sometimes daily, there are two liquor shops within a few metres of each other. Why?]]></description>
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<title>Readers' views via SMS</title>
<category>Letters</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6200</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[D BEYDON, are you saying only the ANC is responsible for democracy? State facts please. You probably are a Man United fan too.]]></description>
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<title>South Africans will have 'smart' ID cards by next elections </title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6204</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is expected that smart ID cards will be in use by the next general elections, the home affairs department said on Thursday (17/05/2012).]]></description>
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<title>TV's talent judges are basking in fame and fortune</title>
<category>World</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6203</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Time was when TV talent shows set out to turn wannabes into stars. These days? Not so much. It&#8217;s the celebrity judges who are raking in the cash and using TV contests not only as a way to re-launch a fading career, but to further boost a thriving one.]]></description>
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<title>New look at youth wage subsidy</title>
<category>Business</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6202</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[RESPONSIBILITY for implementing the R5-billion youth wage subsidy will be placed in the hands of the Economic Development Department, President Jacob Zuma says.]]></description>
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<title>Price war sees phone call costs drop </title>
<category>Business</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6201</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 10:19:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A BRUTAL price war has broken out between two of the cellphone operators in South Africa, with the result that they have slashed the cost of calls between networks by at least 34%.]]></description>
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<title>ANC 'sitting on ticking  time bomb' - Vavi</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6190</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 10:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[COSATU general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi warned the ANC yesterday it was sitting on &#8220;a ticking time bomb that is starting to explode&#8221; and needed to get its house in order or face a revolt similar to the 1976 riots against Bantu education.]]></description>
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<title>Law bungle will see sex pests walk free</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6189</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[POLITICIANS and prosecutors are scrambling to fix a parliamentary bungle that could see thousands of sex offenders walk free.]]></description>
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<title>Deejays love PE parties</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6188</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:54:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[PORT Elizabeth is proving to be the party destination of choice for 5FM deejays who voted six parties in Nelson Mandela Bay as among the top 15 they attended in their whirlwind 42-party marathon.]]></description>
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<title>Bay designer knits his way up fashion ladder</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6187</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[NELSON Mandela Bay master knitwear designer Laduma Ngxokolo is going from strength to strength with his range of Xhosa-inspired men&#8217;s knitwear.]]></description>
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<title>Denton ordered to stop work on buildings</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6186</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[NELSON Mandela Bay property magnate Ken Denton has been ordered by the Provincial Heritage Resources Authority (Phra) to cease renovations of the historic Donkin Row houses because he does not have permission to do so.]]></description>
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<title>Cosatu cuts ties with ANC in Bay </title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6185</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:43:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[LABOUR federation Cosatu has cut ties with the ANC leadership in Nelson Mandela Bay until an appeal lodged with provincial party bosses regarding the legitimacy of the newly elected ANC executive is dealt with.
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<title>East Cape kids clean up at US olympiad </title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6184</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:39:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[TWO pupils from the Eastern Cape shone at the recent International Sustainable World Energy Engineering Environment Project Olympiad (I-Sweeep) held in Houston, Texas.]]></description>
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<title>Rhodes joins campaign against rhino poaching</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6183</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE fight to save Eastern Cape rhinos from poachers stepped up a gear at Rhodes University this week when students and staff rallied to highlight their plight]]></description>
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<title>Motorists under threat in protest </title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6182</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[PANDEMONIUM broke out in Timothy Valley in Port Elizabeth yesterday when hundreds of residents embarked on a massive housing protest.]]></description>
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<title> Importance of African languages underlined </title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6181</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SOUTH Africa&#8217;s democracy is at a crossroads and language, which is at the heart of real transition and liberation, is not on the national agenda, warns political analyst and social commentator Professor Somadoda Fikeni.
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<title>Despair as teacher crisis deepens</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6180</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE deepening teacher-shortage crisis at Eastern Cape schools has resulted in many struggling to play catch- up while Bhisho remains mum about the future of temporary teachers.]]></description>
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<title>Several law changes aimed at speeding up rugby</title>
<category>Sport</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6179</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE International Rugby Board (IRB) is set to try out several new laws aimed at speeding the game up and giving the television match official (TMO) more power, following a meeting of its general council in Dublin on Tuesday.]]></description>
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<title>Friendship sidelined for clash</title>
<category>Sport</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6178</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[LONG-TIME mates John Giannakis and Melikhaya &#8220;China&#8221; Mdlalo will put their friendship aside when Bay Stars clash with Highbury in a crucial Vodacom League soccer fixture in Gelvandale on Saturday (3pm).]]></description>
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<title> Bay star&amp;#8217;s Olympic hopes rise</title>
<category>Sport</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6177</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>Open your heart and adopt child</title>
<category>Letters</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6142</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I SAY a &#8220;big ups&#8221; to those who adopt children from charity homes or even from strangers. You are doing a good thing because you are not only helping that child, but raising leaders for tomorrow.]]></description>
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<title>Residents enjoy fun day in park</title>
<category>Letters</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6143</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ON Freedom Day, a partnership of the Walmer Ubuntu Environmental Trust, Walmer Youth Forum, Wessa and the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality hosted a family picnic in the Baakens Valley. It aimed to draw together different sectors of society, through celebrating music in the beautiful surroundings of Settlers Park.]]></description>
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