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Balancing K-Day

Tue, 10 Aug, 2010

While not attempting to minimise the ability of what is obviously a fine St Andrew's first XV, we need to remember the true difference between the two schools. St Andrew's is similar in total numbers to Kingswood, but half of the Kingswood learners are of the fairer sex.

A problematic review of The Baltimore Waltz

Fri, 27 Aug, 2010

As an artist I am defiantly protective of my right to abstain from responding to newspaper critics. I savour the silence of non-response. However as head of a drama department and teacher I am drawn to consider the way the relationship between the media and the performing arts operates.

Focus on the people

Fri, 27 Aug, 2010

The Committee of the Advisory Committee of the Albany Museum wishes to thank Pick n Pay for the contribution of cakes and chocolates for the presenters of the Focus on the Person workshop on 12 August.

Google Street View now available for Grahamstown

Tue, 8 Jun, 2010

We spotted the Google Street View car in Grahamstown on 28 October last year, and are happy to note that Google Street View launched in South Africa today, including coverage of Grahamstown. This means that you can now take a virtual tour of the streets of Grahamstown.

Composed upon Health Minister's ordeal

Thu, 20 May, 2010

Composed upon Health Minister's Ordeal
 

Grocott's Mail turns 140!

Tue, 11 May, 2010

Hip, hip, hooray! Today is the 140th birthday of Grocott's Mail, South Africa's oldest independent newspaper. What can we say - a good thing never dies!

Recent comments

  • Eastern Cape ANCYL wants Dep Police Minister Fikile Mbalula (39) as next ANC Secretary General   3 days 13 hours ago
    Or a fifth option: "%&% no!

    Or a fifth option: "%&% no! He's a sanguinary lunatic."

  • Stay safe at the crossing   1 week 1 day ago
    pedestrians knocked down

    I know this is harsh words but those ignoring the red pedestrian light deserves to be knocked down.

  • Nightmare circle and other traffic issues   2 weeks 5 days ago
    It's not just the traffic circle

    The national guidelines for traffic calming are available from the CSIR -- http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/handle/10204/1375 -- as are the department of Transport's recommendations for the design and implementation of speed humps (http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/handle/10204/1388).

    They make for interesting reading.  There are very few, if any, traffic calming devices in this town that comply with these guidelines.

    One of the more important requirements is public discussion *before* any traffic calming is implemented.  I don't recall any call for public opinion when they errected humps on Cradock road, on African street, on Hill street, on South street, etc.

    There are also sizing and spacing recommendations.  These make a lot of sense.  They'd help stop us scraping the bottoms of our cars on the oversized humps errected in Grahamstown.

    Correct marking is also stressed.  Driving down African street at night, it is difficult to tell whether the thing that's outside Oatlands is a speed hump or a pedestrian crossing -- unless you've had the misfortune of hitting it previously.  If it was marked correctly, it'd be completely obvious.

    It'd be nice if the Traffic department took cogniscence of these documents...

  • No tattoos for me   2 weeks 6 days ago
    Our Lord will have a tattoo. Why can't I?

    Revelation 19:11-16 says:

    And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

     His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
    And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
    And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
    And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
    And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

  • Snow in Grahamstown!   11 weeks 21 hours ago
    Snow reports in Eastern Cape

    Plenty of snow reports coming in here:

    http://saweatherobserver.blogspot.com/2010/06/snow-in-eastern-cape.html