Author: Staff Reporter

The Cape Town Buskers Festival will be returning to the V&A Waterfront from 5-8 October 2017 and the call has gone out for street performing talents to audition to be on the bill. Forming part of the annual Cape Town Fringe Festival, the Buskers Festival will bring international and local performers, singers, dancers, clowns, mimes, illusionists and more into the popular V&A Waterfront across four stages and over 80 performances for crowd-funded theatre at its best. The Buskers Festival is calling for freelance performers who have an act of approximately 45 minutes that can be performed at least twice a…

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The Investchem Formula 1600 championship reaches round six on Saturday 12 August, when the competitors assemble at Zwartkops Raceway in Pretoria. There are just three rounds left this season and now every lap, every point, every advantage counts. Rhodes University student Brad Beningfield (46 – General Energy Systems) is currently part of the top five, but has three events – six more races, to mix it up among the other four and potentially grab a podium for the season. Beningfield has finished on the podium three times already this year and has the time to accumulate enough points to be…

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Volkswagen is launching a limited edition Beetle R-Line model with only 50 units being made available to participating Volkswagen dealerships. Identifying features of the new version of the Beetle include a redesigned front bumper. The central air inlet has been made larger and framing it now in the vehicle body colour are bars that strive outwards in an A-shape, making the Beetle appear wider and sturdier. On both the left and right outer edges of the bumper a black trim element emphasises the width. The Beetle R-Line is equipped as standard with the Composition Media radio system and eight loudspeakers.…

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By Amy Pieterse I was not expecting to spend my Sunday holding on to rocks like my life depended on it, but there I was. What was promised as a casual day hike with the Oldenburgia Hiking Club turned into some treacherous scrambling at times, but the challenge made it all the more worth it. Taking place at the sublime Craig Doone recently, a large group (including two excitable Jack Russells) joined the Club in attempting to slip and slide up the slopes of the farm. The day was broken up into a morning and afternoon hike, with a lunchbreak…

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The Grahamstown Community Policing Forum (CPF) and Families of South Africa (FAMSA), together with South African Police Services (SAPS) ran a Women’s Day family event which on 9 August 2017 at the Oval Stadium. The South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (NRF-SAIAB) Wellness Committee was among some 11 organisations invited to participate. The response from the community was very positive and NRF-SAIAB staff, students and interns in numbers also participated in the event. The activities included a 5km fun run/power walk and a two hour Aerobics Marathon led by Makana Aerobics and Fitness Club (MAFC). The aim of the event…

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Port Alfred police last night arrested a man for dealing in drugs at his home, according to spokesperson Captain Mali Govender. “At approximately 10.15pm members of the Port Alfred Cluster OCC team arrested a male aged 33 for dealing in drugs at his residence in Nemato,” she said. Boss mandrax tablets, and a small pack of crystal meth tik, together with a value of around R1 600, were seized, Govender said along with R2557 found in his possession. The suspect is due to appear in the Port Alfred Magistrates court on Monday 14 August. This follows the recovery by Kenton…

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Virtuoso piano trio from Ireland, the Fidelio Trio, will perform works by Beethoven, Ravel and Smetana in the Grahamstown Music Society’s next concert at their successful new venue, the NELM auditorium, at 7.30pm on Thursday 31 August. A piano trio is distinct from a string trio in that it includes… well, a piano… and the Fidelio Trio comprises Darragh Morgan (violin), Adi Tal (cello) and Mary Dullea (piano). Shortlisted for the 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, the Fidelio Trio are enthusiastic champions of the piano trio genre, performing the widest possible range of repertoire on concert stages across the world;…

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   STAFF REPORTER Sustainability, social justice, local responsiveness and global competitiveness emerged as dominant themes at a ‘productive’ three-day multi-sectoral Rhodes University summit, which ended on Sunday afternoon. Students, workers, academics, members of the alumni, management and representatives from business, municipality and the community of Makana met last weekend to reflect and engage on the transformation agenda of the 113-year-old institution.  The summit followed six months of intensive internal engagements on transformation. The curriculum, income and financial management, institutional identity, student matters, staff and institutional culture all came under intense interrogation in plenary and breakaway discussions. In his…

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Rhodes University will be the Eastern Cape venue for the 10th annual Silent Protest on Friday 11 August 2017. Thousands of students will be gathering on campuses in Grahamstown, Durban and Cape Town during August – Women’s Month – to participate in the annual Silent Protest – showing solidarity with rape survivors and fighting for their right to Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP). The first Silent Protest was initiated at Rhodes University in Grahamstown in 2007. This year marks the fourth year that the Aids Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has organised the protests as part of the organisation’s campaign to reduce new…

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Most independent business owners start their companies thinking they just need to earn enough money to cover their living costs and forget about tax returns.  Frequently the initial growth is so rapid and often unexpected that they find themselves struggling to manage the day-to-day needs of the business as the admin piles up. It all seems to be going so well that they just soldier on, promising themselves that they’ll get to the admin tomorrow, but never seem to have the time. It’s an approach which can be a recipe for disaster. “There are too many cases of enthusiastic entrepreneurs who…

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