Riaan Boucher rarely wears gloves or a protective suit when on the job. I marvel as he reaches for a rooftop comb with his bare hands while a cigarette rests comfortably between his lips. Boucher is completely at home in a hive.
Women arrived dressed in their finest traditional attire with their faces painted colourfully. Liberation songs and chants highlighting the plight that women have endured were sung. Young girls danced to the beat of drums and were joined by their mothers and grandmothers on stage.
Leaders of the ongoing national public servants strike have told strikers in Grahamstown to apply “minimum force” to persuade their colleagues who are at work to join the strike.
Re: a new name for Grahamstown, there is one undoubtedly incorruptible, efficient and impartial municipal employee we know, the hated but respected traffic officer Bafo. Julia, let's go for KwaBafo!