A large group of residents responded recently to the call from Adult Basic Education and Training (Abet) for education empowerment. The Abet centre set up a new satellite office at George Dickerson Primary School where young people and adults of the area came to register.
Two people at a recent dinner hosted by the Student Representative Council (SRC) at a local restaurant ordered four main meals in the course of the evening all on the SRC tab. After a few mouthfuls of their first orders, the pair each ordered another meal.
What is it like for a Japanese engineer to live in a town like Alice? “It’s quiet and laid-back,” says Tomokazu Konno, who comes from a city north of Tokyo with one million citizens.
Approximately 500 Eastern Cape teachers, cleaners, clerks and other public servants from as far away as Port Alfred and Alexandria united outside the Department of Education District Office in Grahamstown to join the national Cosatu strike for increased wages, living allowances and medical aid subsidies.
If you’re looking for a school in Glenmore, you will find two identical block buildings surrounded by a dusty, arid field. There are no signs, but this is Qaqambile Senior Primary School, where nearly 80 children, wearing tidy blue and yellow uniforms, come to learn.
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!