What’s on the Go?
Today
Put on your dancing shoes to waltz, two-step and line dance tonight away with live music by Alwyn’s Band at the East London...
DA leader Maimane targets rural Eastern Cape
DA leader Mmusi Maimane will this weekend visit the Eastern Cape as part of the party’s campaign towards 2019.
He will be accompanied by some...
Bay hits six with ‘people’s cricket’
Describing it as a “people’s franchise”, Port Elizabeth’s new T20 Global League franchise owner Ajay Sethi unveiled his plan yesterday to galvanise fan support...
Hackers post gory pictures on education department website
The national department of basic education was forced to shut down its website on late on Wednesday after it was hacked and plastered with...
Legacy Walk to commemorate 50th death anniversary of former ANC president...
The second annual Chief Albert Luthuli Legacy Walk and Half Marathon will be the main event next month to commemorate the 50th anniversary of...
‘Two more years of high school could cut poverty in half’
World poverty could be cut in half if all adults completed high school.
Nearly 60 million people could escape poverty if all adults had just...
Firms scramble to recover from wave of cyber attacks
Thousands of computer users across the globe scrambled to reboot on Wednesday after a wave of ransom ware cyber attacks spread from Ukraine and...
Ignore social justice at your peril‚ Cape Town developers warned
The lack of affordable housing in central Cape Town poses a risk to the city’s future‚ a property industry leader warned on Wednesday.
Government leaders...
‘Natural caesarian’ may not be such a miracle
After months of carefully planning your baby’s drug- and surgery-free arrival, being told in the last few weeks of pregnancy that a natural birth...
Court rules against single-religion schools
The High Court in Johannesburg declared on Wednesday that it offends the Schools Act for a public school to promote only one religion to...
500 posts for jobless EC nurses
Premier Phumulo Masualle has instructed the department of health to advertise 500 nursing posts by end of next week.
Once filled, they will go a...
Services at standstill in no-go areas
Rubbish piles up as metro calls halt amid workers’ fears for their safety
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has suspended services to the Motherwell and...
New start for brave boy
Despite having every reason to be down and out, nine-year-old Ubuko Mpotulo faced many adversities with a smile on his face and will now...
Google fined over R34 billion by EU
The EU slapped Google with a record 2.4-billion-euro (R34.80 bllion) anti-trust fine on Tuesday, in a fresh assault on a US tech giant that...
Residents upset by tender recall
A construction tender worth millions has been cancelled.
The tender, advertised by Buffalo City Metro (BCM) last year to finish building a new community hall...
Surgeons on run after deaths
Two East London traditional surgeons are on the run after police and parents raided an illegal circumcision school in Scenery Park on the weekend.
Two...
Close call for man buried alive
An East London man is lucky to be alive after walls of the building he was digging inside came tumbling down, burying him inside...
I’m going for Gugu – Letshego Zulu returns to Kilimanjaro
Racing driver Gugu Zulu shared this picture of himself and his wife, Letshego on 14 July 2016 Picture: Instagram/guguzulu
One year after racing car driver...
‘We are not strippers‚’ say prison dancers
Pictures of two scantily clad women hugging prisoners have gone viral
We are not strippers.
That is the emphatic message from Busi Mahlangu‚ one of the...
PREMIER’S PERSPECTIVE: Land revitalisation initiatives stimulating province’s growth
Land represents the source of all material wealth. We live on it and from it, we get everything we use or value, whether it...
Accountants urged: save the country
Black chartered accountants in the Eastern Cape were celebrated at the weekend at a glitzy black tie event held as part of the first...
Living arrows: educate SA’s youth or risk a loss of social...
Our young people remain marginalised even as global labour opportunities beckon
Khalil Gibran wrote: “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows...
Xhosa community asks court to confirm they have no chief
The Amahlathi Crisis Committee‚ representing eight villages near King William’s Town‚ will ask the Bhisho High Court on Tuesday to set aside the decision...
Prison bosses squirm after ‘strippers’ entertain inmates
Correctional services bosses are startled by revelations on social media that inmates at Johannesburg prison were entertained by scantily clad women in lingerie.
Gauteng correctional...
EC bloc fumes against Guptas
If the tone set by the ANC Eastern Cape provincial policy conference yesterday is anything to go by, the province is emerging as a...
Police investigate illegal circumcision of EL boys
A police investigation is under way after a group of 27 boys were illegally circumcised in Scenery Park‚ East London‚ the Eastern Cape health...
MATTER OF FACT
IN the GO! last week, we incorrectly stated in the caption “GETTING HELP” that it was Lindelwa Sigenu in the photo. It was however...
Moving Selborne play of Soweto uprisings at NAF
SELBORNE College’s play Tableaux in Red: Oil on Canvas, 1976 from writer and director, Jo Stemmet, will be performed at this year’s National Arts...
Huge relief for NPOs
A R6.7-MILLION lifeline has been thrown to cash-starved non-profit organisations (NPOs) by the Eastern Cape department of social development.
This comes after the department made huge cuts to...
Former Botswana president Ketumile Masire dies
Former Botswana president Ketumile Masire has died at the age of 91‚ his foundation said on Friday.
Masire‚ a key figure in Botswana’s independence movement‚...
Pupils on a buzz with spelling bee
Seven Buffalo Flats schools take part
SEVEN primary schools took part in the Buffalo Flats cluster spelling bee competition last week.
AW Barnes, Aspiranza, Buffalo Flats,...
7 de Laan has no plans to u-turn on theme song
Despite numerous calls from viewers on social media for the return of 7 de Laan’s old theme song‚ the soapie is adamant that the...
Mall marauder loses cops with hijack
The driver of a gold Toyota Fortuner allegedly involved in several car break-ins at some of East London’s busiest malls narrowly escaped arrest after...
Golf day for needy daycare
RISING Sun Daycare in Duncan Village has been selected as the beneficiary for this year’s Algoa Cares Charity Golf Day in East London.
The children...
SECRETS TO MARRIAGE
Norman and Irene Hensberg celebrated their 65th on May 31. The couple met at Irene’s 21st birthday party to which Norman didn’t want to...
Popular nite series kicks off
THE Out the Green Box Nite Series kicks off tomorrow at a new venue – Cafe du Jardin in the Floradale Centre.
According to race...
Charities benefit from Harvey Travel Golf Day
HARVEY World Travel’s third annual charity golf day tee’d off with 112 golfers playing at the immaculate East London Golf Course earlier this month.
“We...
What’s on the GO – 22 June
Today
● Put on your dancing shoes to waltz, two-step and line dance tonight away with live music by Barry and Mark at the East...
Teens identify families in need and set up five-year help plan
Teenage girls have lit a candle of hope in a drive to unite with their peers in Nompumelelo township in East London.
HELPING HANDS: A...
BCM urged not to cut electricity
The Buffalo City Metro council wants its administration to stop blocking electricity supplies to indigent customers who fail to pay their accounts.
The Buffalo City...
Countdown to enter wee ones
THERE are only eight days to enter your perfect bundle of joy into the Beacon Bay Retail Park baby competition. Finalists in the Picture-Perfect...
Set for Best Kids Day Out Ever
ONCE upon a time in the enchanted forest, a magical event had been planned and children from across the land were invited to dress...
ORT named top irregular spender in SA
Scandal-prone OR Tambo district municipality was yesterday named by Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu as the biggest culprit of irregular expenditure in the country, with R1.569-million...
GIRL POWER
The Stirling Primary and High netball teams won their respective U12 and first-team East London leagues and will be travelling to Port Elizabeth to...
SQUASHING OPPOSITION
Selborne pupils Josh van Oordt, left, and Luke Jacoby played in the Men’s Border Closed squash finals recently. Van Oordt won the seventh league...
Refugees in spotlight at summit High-powered officials discuss displaced people’s rights
IN A continued effort to raise awareness on the plight and rights of refugees, The Agency for Refugee Education, Skills Training & Advocacy (Aresta)...
Beach boss sacked after metro hearing
Internal process finds Cain guilty of fraud over family links with municipal contracts
Former Nelson Mandela Bay beach manager Fernando Cain has been fired by...
Witness tells of student’s dying moments after crash
A witness to the crash in which NMMU student Jamie Baartzes died – when a driver on the wrong side of the freeway crashed...
Starvation looms as food runs out in drought-hit Ethiopia
The Somali people of Ethiopia's southeast have a name for the drought that has killed livestock, dried up wells and forced hundreds of thousands...
14 municipalities lose clean audit status
The expenditure budget for local government in 2015-16 was R378 billion but municipalities with clean audit opinions represent only 19% (R70‚9 billion) of this...
