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Watson ‘will not step down’
CHEEKY WATSON Calls for EP rugby boss to quit have no legal standing, says Pamba DEFIANT Eastern Province rugby boss Cheeky Watson has no plans to quit despite the ongoing cash crisis which has...
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Sights set on surfing record
GOING FOR IT: Josh Enslin will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for a lone surfing marathon starting at noon today and ending tomorrow at 6pm at Pollok Beach. Picture: MIKE HOLMES Surfer Josh...
View ArticlePE tourism numbers herald bumper season
NEARLY two million holidaymakers and businesspeople have made their way to Nelson Mandela Bay shores this year, with this being a better year for tourism than the last. Accommodation establishments...
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Peaceful protest underway at NMMU
Picture: Eugene Coetzee/The Herald. About 150 people are protesting at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) this morning (Monday, November 16) outside of the Embizweni Building on South...
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Project closure ‘thuggery’
The construction project to build two additional stormwater detention ponds and increase capacity of another in the heart of Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth, has been halted. THE R27-million construction...
View ArticleHail warning for Gauteng after downburst in Limpopo
Weather forecasters have issued a watch for severe thunderstorms in Gauteng on Monday. The warning comes after large hail fell in the Hoedspruit and Burgersfort areas of Limpopo on Sunday. “Watch out...
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Dire warning as heat threatens farms
LEVEL CONCERN: Gariep Dam THE drought has hit a corner of the Eastern Cape and although the rest of the province is doing fine so far the provincial agriculture union is “very nervous” writes Guy...
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Adoption is an option – despite stigma and fear
Racial and cultural taboos persist, write Melitta Ngalonkulu and Siyamtanda Capa ADOPTION as an option for couples or singles who want to raise children but cannot conceive for whatever reason is...
View ArticleOperation Fiela makes inroads in the fight against drug profileration
Operation Fiela continues to make inroads in the fight against the proliferation of drug crimes in the Nelson Mandela Bay area. The operation began on Saturday (14/11/2015) at 4pm and continued until...
View ArticleDespatch cops arrest murder suspect
Effective policing skills contributed to the speedy arrest of a 39-year-old suspect on a charge of murder. The victim, Adriaan Minus, 22, arrived home in Tarentaal Street, Despatch, at about 5.45 last...
View ArticleFacebook poses attack case hitch
A SEXUAL assault case opened by a University of Cape Town student could be hampered after she named the alleged perpetrator on social media. The gender studies student, who is also a member of the...
View ArticleBodies found next to cliff
EMERGENCY staff worked through the night to recover the bodies of two George students after their vehicle plunged over a cliff near Herolds Bay on the Garden Route on Sunday. A third person, believed...
View ArticleToddlers swapped at birth stay put
Court rules that two five-year-olds must remain with parents raising them THE two toddlers who were swapped at birth will remain with the parents who have been raising them as their own. The Pretoria...
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Workers injured in bakkie crash
CRASH DRAMA: Emergency services staff recover a bakkie from deep bush after it veered off the road near the Addo- Bluewater Bay turnoff, injuring 19 construction workers ALMOST 20 construction workers...
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Unions feel left out of metro cop process
PINKIE MATHABATHE TWO weeks before Nelson Mandela Bay metro police chief Pinkie Mathabathe must detail how she will establish the much-anticipated force, worker unions say they are in the dark about...
View ArticleTeachers brush up on maths, science
TEACHERS were full of praise yesterday for the Eastern Cape Department of Education following a training programme aimed at upskilling their teaching in maths and science. Sixty teachers from the Port...
View ArticleGran breaks down in court
Woman tells how child raped three times A GRANDMOTHER broke down in court as she told how her young grandchild was allegedly raped three times at a church in Uitenhage last year. The elderly woman, a...
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NMMU support staff down tools over outsourcing
URGENT DEMANDS: Support staff, joined by some students, protest outside the Embizweni Building on the NMMU south campus and were later met by vicechancellor Professor Derrick Swartz. Picture: EUGENE...
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Ambulance crews under siege
AMBULANCES Escorts needed to go into New Brighton after 20 attacks in 22 months AMBULANCE crews in Nelson Mandela Bay are “under siege” by criminals – and people are dying because the medics have to...
View ArticleRelief for domestic workers as labour linister adjusts annual wages upward
Wages for workers in the domestic worker sector, which includes housekeepers, gardeners, nannies and domestic drivers, will be adjusted effective from December 1 this year. Minister of Labour Mildred...
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