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BUSINESS

Best businesses get cash boost in prizes

Fri, 27 Jan, 2012

Three local businesses owned by young people received a financial boost after winning the top three places in the Makana Business Plan competition.
COMMUNITY

Street parade to launch bicentenary (POSTPONED)

Mon, 30 Jan, 2012

The town will be woken up this Saturday with a lively street parade to launch the year-long Project 200, marking Grahamstown's bicentenary (POSTPONED - see update below)
CRIME & COURTS

Businessman attacked by former employer

Thu, 2 Feb, 2012

A Grahamstown man is fearing for his life after an attack on Monday night - which he claims was orchestrated by a business rival and former employer - left him bruised and in pain and, he believes, within seconds of being burnt alive.
POLITICS

Muni salaries mysteriously dished out

Thu, 26 Jan, 2012

"The chickens are coming home to roost," said Councillor Les Reynolds, adding that this is what happens when the finance department is not being run by a qualified chief financial officer.
CULTURE

Ubom! looks forward to another exciting year

Fri, 27 Jan, 2012

Multi award-winning Eastern Cape theatre company Ubom! is heralding some exciting new changes as it rolls out plans for the new year and beyond.
EDUCATION

Flanagan Scholarship winner off to Cambridge

Thu, 26 Jan, 2012

A young Port Elizabeth woman, Nadine Sampson, has realised her dream to study overseas after being awarded a prestigious scholarship by Rhodes University.
SPORTS

Pagel breaks 43-year-old record

Mon, 30 Jan, 2012

Five new records were set in the field events at Hoerskool PJ Olivier's annual inter-house sports on Thursday. The track events took place at the school on Wednesday, with four records being broken there, and at the Rhodes University Prospect Field the next day, when Amanda Nel, in the U12 category, set three new records, breaking the discus, 100 metre and the 150 metre records.
HEALTH

Healthy outlook for Settlers' Hospital in 2012

Fri, 20 Jan, 2012

From next week, patients at Settlers' Hospital will no longer have to travel to Port Elizabeth to received specialised care from gynaecologists and obstetricians, and they'll no longer have to go to Port Alfred to see a physiotherapist.
ENVIRONMENT

Green dream grows in Grahamstown

Tue, 31 Jan, 2012

If you were to fly over Grahamstown, what you’d see is a town surrounded by greenery - a small human jewel dropped into the middle of a vast landscape of natural splendour.
CRIME & COURTS | TECHNOLOGY

Media flurry over Grahamstown woman's drug arrest

Wed, 14 Dec, 2011

The family of a Grahamstown resident arrested on drug charges in Thailand this week have cast a protective net around her mother's Joza home, reports Abongile Mgaqelwa, as the topic floods social network sites here and around the world.

When Grocott's Mail visited the home of 23-year-old Babsie Nobanda, family members were still locked in discussion, three days after the story of her arrest broke in international media and pictures
MOTORING

The rags-to-riches inventor who silenced his critics

Wed, 18 Jan, 2012

Few rags-to-riches stories of South African inventors are as compelling as that of Jacobus Cronje. Cobus was one of three children in a very poor family who lived in an abandoned mining house in Germiston.
COMMUNITY | MYMAKANA

Municipal strikers back at work

Tue, 30 Aug, 2011

Almost two weeks without pay took its toll on strikers. That's according to a municipal worker who was relieved to return to work this week, along with other members of the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu).