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Protesters threw petrol bombs at police officers near Cape Town International Airport on Friday morning (10/08/2012), the city’s disaster risk management centre said.
Missing fishing boat: body of boy, 8, foundThe body of an 8-year-old boy was found on Friday (10/08/2012) morning after a fishing boat disappeared in Plettenberg Bay, in the Western Cape, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said.
Kiviet comes under fireTHE office of the Eastern Cape premier has come under fire for putting pressure on government departments to buy tables at a swanky East London fashion show. In a formal letter sent to MECs, Noxolo Kiviet’s office appeals to her executive council to each fork out R10000 for a table at the event.
Toddler drowns in bucket of waterA PORT Elizabeth toddler died tragically after she fell into a bucket of water and drowned while trying to reach for her toy.
Olympian Amanda Sister a hero in VeeplaasSETTLING back into quiet village life has been challenging for Banyana Banyana star, Amanda Sister, who recently returned home from the hustle and bustle of the world’s biggest sporting event.
Use constitution, women toldSOUTH African women should make use of constitutional and other mechanisms which exist to address issues of unemployment, domestic and sexual violence, and poverty, the public protector, Advocate Thuli Madonsela, said yesterday.
Zuma in push for equal payPRIVATE companies without women as directors and executive managers will soon face penalties, President Jacob Zuma said on Women’s Day
Friends help in fight for SA citizenshipA CHANCE meeting between a cash-strapped Russian-born waiter and an elderly Dutch tourist in a Port Alfred restaurant four years ago has changed both men’s lives forever.
Brakes on for meter cab firmsTHE Eastern Cape’s meter taxi industry is under siege from scores of new pirate operators who, it is claimed, are taking advantage of the authorities’ failure to check on official licences and operating cards.
'Anna' author tells how book evolvedALMOST a decade ago a young plattelandse meisie named Anna crept into the hearts of readers across South Africa.
Six men arrested in Uitenhague with 230kg of scrap metalSix men were arrested in Uitenhage for theft when they tried to sell 227kg of scrap metal, Eastern Cape police said on Friday (10/08/2012).
SIU report shows corruption, fraud in East CapeWIDESPREAD corruption in two Eastern Cape departments and details of dubious spending by a national authority in the province have been revealed in a report by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU).
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Delano [10 August 2012 13:48]
Agh geez, shame! It's amazing how serious this issue has become. Should we refer back to te Twin Towers? Please man f off, I'm not condoning this incident, but really, its a thing that happend. Yes you do like fools with that beards I'm sorry. F back to the middle east if you want acceptance. Around here (western) poeple will laugh and joke about it. And that will never change. All this happend now "BECAUSE YOUR A MUSLIM"???? so why did you religion bom the twin towers??? BECAUSE THE MAJORITY WAS CHRISTIAN??? ge over it man
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THE icy spell that has gripped most of the Eastern Cape - with heavy rain and snow forcing several road closures - is expected to start clearing tomorrow (09/08/2012).
Not a day off sick in 33 yearIF the saying “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” is true, then Mbulelo Sapepa, 55, of KwaNobuhle must have eaten about 12 045 apples since he started working at VW in 1978.
Another attack at festering ArlingtonANOTHER knife attack has occurred at Arlington Waste Disposal Site. The attack, which took place on Saturday afternoon, comes amid calls by the DA for an investigation into the chaotic state of the site and questionable swopping of contractors.
Cause and effect of climate change explainedSO HOW to communicate the complexity and magnitude of climate change to youngsters from a little school in Zwide? The kids, in grades six and seven at Mzimhlophe Primary School, were given the answer to this question during their visit to the SA Marine Rehabilitation and Education Centre (Samrec) yesterday (August 03 2011).
R1.5-million farming venture will fit Eastern Cape to a teaTHE Eastern Cape government has set aside R1.5-million to kick-start an expanded honeybush tea industry that could be ramped up to produce a turnover of R100-million a year and hundreds of new jobs. The good news follows on the results that have emerged from a study of the honeybush industry, commissioned by the Coega Development Corporation (CDC) on behalf of the provincial economic development and environmental affairs department.
Algoa Bay the best monitored in all of AfricaALGOA Bay is now “the best monitored bay in Africa” with millions of rands worth of equipment installed below the surface measuring a wide range of environmental conditions. That was the proud revelation yesterday (July 28 2011) from SA Environmental Observation Network (Saeon) co-ordinator Shaun Deyzel, who was speaking at a marine science symposium hosted by SA National Parks, at the Addo Elephant National Parks.
Surf event sets greening benchmarkBILLABONG Pro J-Bay is setting a benchmark for international surfing contests with a comprehensive programme to protect the local environment and combat global climate change.
Unique source of Bay waterHOW many cities in the world can say they get their water from a World Heritage Site? Very few, I bet. Yet, that’s the case with Port Elizabeth and the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality and in fact the Gamtoos River Valley vege farmers.
Bayworld raggies returned to the oceanTHE biggest baddest pair from Bayworld’s de-commissioned aquarium, two bulky raggedtooth sharks, were released yesterday (July 26 2011) back into the sea. It was a sad day for the oceanarium, where they have lived for nearly two decades, inspiring awe in hundreds of thousands of visitors - but it is good news for the species, as the pair are now part of a research project aimed at securing our waters as one of the few safe havens in the world for raggies.
Unique study of great whitesA UNIQUE study into the abundance, distribution and movement of great white sharks in Algoa Bay, sponsored by the metro, has been launched. There has never been a fatal shark attack in Algoa Bay, but the metro has committed the R800000 grant as a pro-active step, taken in line with their marketing of Port Elizabeth as “the watersports’ capital of Africa”, researcher Dr Matt Dicken explained yesterday (June 21 2011).
Co-op sponsors two farmers on US missionTWO Karoo farmers have flown out of PE on a ground-breaking mission to the US, to get the low-down on fracking, in the country where it all began.
Link Refit to electric cars proposalIF WE CAN link Refit with electrical motorcars - then we could really be onto something. Speaking to The Herald yesterday (June 14 2011), department of environmental affairs deputy-director general for climate change, Peter Lukey, said the scheduled launch this month of South Africa’s Renewable Energy Feed-In Tariff (Refit), will likely lead to significant positive change.
Exciting reforestation project underway in TranskeiAN UNUSUAL re-forestation and carbon sequestration project is underway in the heart of the old Transkei, where savage erosion is a common feature. The R7600000 project is being run as a partnership between the Congress of Traditional Leaders’ of South Africa (Contralesa), the national department of environmental affairs and a Johannesburg-based company called Carbon Worx.
EC investment boost to counter climate changeEASTERN Cape economic environment MEC Mcebisi Jonas yesterday announced significant new green economy investment to boost green economy skills in the province.
Branch recalls fascinating careerFOR world-renowned reptile and amphibian expert Dr Bill Branch, who retired this week from Bayworld after 32 years employment there - it all began in 1969, on the shores of a lake in East Africa.
Green electricity programme set to launch this monthGOVERNMENT will this month launch the long-awaited Refit programme that will make funding available to pay private energy entrepreneurs who will generate their own green electricity and sell it to the grid.
EC leads climate change battleTHE Eastern Cape government has declared its intention to lead from the front in the war against climate change, with a landmark multi-benefit project agreement signed at the Eastern Cape Climate Change Conference in East London yesterday (June 08 2011).
Get out the Karoo, farmers tell ShellANGRY residents of the Middleburg area have called for Shell to “get out the Karoo” after the company failed to guarantee the security of their water if fracking goes ahead. Addressing Shell representatives at a hall in Middelburg’s Grootfontein Agricultural College in a hall packed with farmers in T-shirts saying “Don’t Frack with our Karoo,” members of the audience asked repeatedly if the multi-national could “guarantee no risk to our water”.
Agh geez, shame! It's amazing how serious this issue has become. Should we refer back to te Twin Towers? Please man f off, I'm not condoning this incident, but really, its a thing that happend. Yes yo...
royboy 10 August 2012 10:15 amthey are thieves who are stealing from us all and should be tracked down and charged....but there is no way this govt is going to follow through on what is morally right....
TheRef 10 August 2012 6:33 amSIU Report.Ok! we have been aware of these going on`s for some time now.But what is going to be done? We`re waiting!...
alvonhumb 9 August 2012 7:43 pmThere is no possible justification for R800 000 expenditure on a Mayoral vehicle in a Municipality (or even Province) riddled by poverty and non-delivery. The astonishing thing is that the voters stil...
vim 8 August 2012 7:30 pmWhat an absolutely brilliant and horrifying bit of reasoning by Khanyile. Bhisho has discovered a magic formula with the power to inspire instant and full cooperation between parties in the metro....
alvonhumb 8 August 2012 2:03 pmIs this the same "Bhisho" that has taken the EC education and health systems et al into absolute disaster? The EC ANC administartion has shown itself to be an absolute failure. We got rid of Faku (aga...
BigSus 8 August 2012 10:27 amWhy did Bonnie's family allow this to happen to one of their own. They should have beaten this scum long ago. It's too late now 'cause their child is gone and in such a painful way ...
BigSus 8 August 2012 10:25 amHigh up connections !!! some are born great ...
BigSus 8 August 2012 10:24 amMhhhh!!! I wonder. Then why did he run away instead of reporting this to the nearest police station? Apleni's witness is in heaven and what goes around will someday come around . The Lord has a way of...
BigSus 7 August 2012 2:42 pmCan anyone please advise , in which areas is the water supply restored . My folk in the Bay say in their vicinity ,it doesn;t look like it . There's no water since last week....