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A tribute to our sponsors

Tue, 9 Mar, 2010

The Bathurst Show Committee would like to pay tribute to the following companies for partnering up with us to improve our show: Talisman and The Brother in Law.

Canine corgi vs toothless chihuahua

Tue, 9 Mar, 2010

Ismail Mahomed, in his column “Honouring the dead, honouring our heritage” (in Grocott’s Mail 2 March) identifies the valid and desperate state of some of our graveyards but unfortunately slips into a supercilious slagging-off of the Makana Aesthetics Committee hardly a new whipping boy!

Taking back Bots

Tue, 9 Mar, 2010

With reference to Athina’s letter entitled “Need and shame” (Grocott’s Mail Tuesday, 2 March). Bots is the second oldest botanical gardens in the country and is a national monument of which Grahamstown can be proud.

Thank you

Fri, 5 Mar, 2010

The chairman, committee and the residents of Settlers Close and Oakhaven wish to thank all those generous Grahamstonians who put money in our collection boxes on Saturday 27 February.

The goodly sum collected is the start of a major operation to restore these old age homes to their former glory.

Thank you for helping the X generation

Fri, 5 Mar, 2010

Generation Active (GenX), a community based youth organisation, would like to thank the Rotary Club of  Grahamstown Sunset for the Collect-a-Can on our behalf on Saturday 27 February at Pick n Pay.

The Aesthetics Committee requires our support

Fri, 5 Mar, 2010

Ismail Mahomed’s article (GM 2 March) on honouring our heritage overlooks the legal limitations of the Aesthetics Committee and then makes some harsh judgements.

Wasteful expenditure

Fri, 5 Mar, 2010

The re-branding of Makana is yet another example of wasteful expenditure by our current administration  and their immediate predecessors.

The best and most overdue form of re-branding our municipality could do is simply to start functioning effectively by doing the job which we pay them for.

Municipality corrects itself

Fri, 5 Mar, 2010

The municipality would like to correct an article which appeared in the 19 February edition of Grocott's Mail: “Water is safe to drink' says the municipality”.

Need and shame

Wed, 3 Mar, 2010

While walking in the Botanical Gardens this week we approached a man standing on bridge who acted very afraid of our dogs and then proceeded to follow us, begging for money.

He was very insistent and would not leave us alone. Eventually we veered off the path and later when he could see we were looking he masturbated in front of us.