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Car collides with two trucks in Beaufort Street

An accident involving two trucks and a car took place near the intersection of Beaufort and Somerset streets on Thursday morning.

Learning about earth excites muni

The municipality is excited to see residents ploughing gardens during the women’s month of August, says Makana councillor Julie Wells.

Sweetest job in town

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.
 

Rural women still waiting for equality

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.
 

Cosatu: 'Pinch' non-striking workers

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.

Family suffocates to death

Tragedy struck the Booi and Faku families when three people suffocated to death at Eluxolweni last week.

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