Spectator injured at music fest
A spectator was injured when a tent collapsed as a result of gusty winds at the IsiXhosa Music Festival in Port Elizabeth today. During the festival, held at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, the...
View ArticleMake sure children buckle up‚ advises AA
If you love your children‚ make sure they buckle up this festive season‚ the Automobile Association (AA) advises. One of the biggest tragedies in South Africa is the preventable death of hundreds of...
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Trying to stem tide of animal neglect
IN MY ARMS: An unidentified little boy cradles his dog outside his home in Santaville ANIMAL welfare workers are fighting an extraordinary battle against terrible odds in the Eastern Cape platteland as...
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Toddler’s dice with death on highway
JOYOUS REUNION: Young mother Lizeka Magwabi was overjoyed to be reunited with her son Awonke, 2, after his spine-chilling highway adventure. While she thought he was with his dad, the boy went...
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Point penalties awaiting drivers
From next year, licences will be suspended, revoked for contravening Aarto rules, writes Gareth Wilson MOTORISTS will soon be penalised for shoddy driving, which could see their licences revoked or...
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Men, kids most at risk of drowning, stats show
MEN and children are most at risk of drowning, according to statistics accumulated by the Netcare Medibank database. Netcare Group emergency, trauma, transplant and corporate social investment general...
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DA stalwart calls it a day
Dashwood will be greatly missed, write Rochelle de Kock and Mkhululi Ndamase WITH less than six months to go before Nelson Mandela Bay’s most hotly-contested municipal election, senior DA councillor...
View ArticleSurvey shows most residents proud of Nelson Mandela Bay
NELSON Mandela Bay (NMB) residents are generally proud of the metro, identify strongly with it and would encourage others to visit, according to a recent survey into perceptions of the metro. The...
View ArticleNHI spells death of medical aids
Policy document finally released, but expert labels it absurd, superficial, irrational SOUTH Africa’s middle class will not be able to use medical aids to fund most private healthcare procedures if...
View ArticleDrama mars IsiXhosa Music Festival in Bay
THERE was no shortage of drama at the first IsiXhosa Music Festival at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium on Saturday. The VIP marquee was dismantled after it collapsed with a beam falling on a spectator,...
View ArticleShop owners latest target of gangs
Demands for ‘protection fees’ of up to R250 a time on the rise SHOP owners in Port Elizabeth’s northern areas are livid with gangs holding them ransom with demands of “protection fees”. In the past...
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No back pay for ward committees
DANNY JORDAAN NELSON Mandela Bay mayor Danny Jordaan dashed any hopes of ward committees members who were elected during a flawed 2011 process being back paid. He said there was no basis for doing so...
View ArticleParts of East Cape battle with drought
PARTS of the Eastern Cape are battling with severe drought conditions, with the Joe Gqabi District Municipality already declared a disaster area. Although Nelson Mandela Bay’s dams are at a combined...
View ArticleZuma’s amazing U-turn
Pravin Gordhan back as finance minister in dramatic turnaround IN a dramatic and unprecedented turnaround, President Jacob Zuma announced late last night that he had appointed Pravin Gordhan as finance...
View ArticleMEC backs president on Nkandla
Support for Zuma as gifts handed out SOUTH Africans must say they do not want a president who grew up poor in a village and became a political prisoner instead of opposition parties hiding behind...
View ArticleToxic red tide triggers worries over tourism
A TOXIC red tide has returned to the Eastern Cape and Garden Route coastline and, with environmentalists predicting a high likelihood of these algae formations worsening into the new year, tourism...
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GALLERY: Best van Rooyen memes
If Sunday night’s announcement that the president’s finance minister of four days would be replaced for a former incumbent would quiet things down some‚ it didn’t work. Words relating to the surprise...
View ArticleCar stolen in Cape Town was found near Peddie
A Toyota Corolla which was stolen in Durbanville, Cape Town on Friday was found near Peddie in the Eastern Cape after the 29-year-old driver tried to speed away from a road block on Sunday. Police...
View ArticleHerschelle Gibbs’s drunken driving case referred to DPP
Former Proteas cricket player Herschelle Gibbs will not make his first appearance in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Monday, because his drunken driving case is not on the court roll. This was...
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Twitter users tune the odds with #VanRooyenDidntEven…
It was short‚ but David van Rooyen’s tenure as the country’s finance minister – the shortest ever – will be remembered. Van Rooyen was removed from the post by President Jacob Zuma on Sunday night just...
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