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A 21-year-old woman drowned at Clanwilliam Dam in the Western Cape while swimming with family members on Saturday.
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The Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) has called on government to work with traditional leaders to clamp down on bogus initiation schools.
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England lost Haseeb Hameed for a duck as they reached 20-1 at tea chasing a massive 468 to win the second Ashes Test in Adelaide, needing a history-making miracle to avoid slumping 2-0 down in the …
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Quick Addo Fact: Two major environmental issues facing the AENP: extinction and overpopulation, which are interrelated. Since the AENP’s original mission was to reintroduce certain mega-herbivores, like the African elephant and black rhinoceros, primary ecological efforts were made to preserve mammalian species. However, by overlooking the other contributors to this environmental chain, certain plant species have been subjected to overgrazing and trampling, mostly by the elephants of the park. This overgrazing and trampling not only destroys much of the plant life, but also forces it to adapt its physiology to stimuli that are not inherent to its evolutionary progress. Some biologists argue that it is not herbivorization alone that is threatening the flora, but a number of other ecological factors including zoochory and nutrient cycling. Up to 77 species of South African endemic plant species have been listed as “vulnerable to elephant browsing.”

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Access for Kruger National Park day visitors Festive Season

Kruger National Park day visitors during the 2021 Festive Season. The KNP has released a statement saying that daily quotas will once again apply at the entrance gates for day vis …
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Quick Addo Fact: Spekboom is a superhero. Spekboom is prolific in the main game area of Addo and helps to sustain the Addo Elephant Park’s hearty population of over 600 elephants. The succulent spekboom regenerates quickly so the landscape doesn’t look devastated as it does in Kruger due to destructive elephant feeding. The plant is so good at converting carbon dioxide that ten hectares of spekboom would equal taking 25 cars off the road for a year. There are also places where the precious thicket opens up revealing wide plains of game with pinpricks of zebra in the distance and bigger blobs of eland. 79% of the park is covered in subtropical thicket and it is especially concentrated in the main game area. It may look uniform, but the subtropical thicket contains 112 different vegetation types and is comprised of 1 558 plant species – 322 of these species (20%) are endemic and found nowhere else.

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Namibia Plastic Packaging was crowned Regional Exporter of the Year at the Southern Africa Regional Exporters Awards 2021 held on 8 December in East London, South Africa. The hybrid virtual and …
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Johannesburg- The June and December holiday seasons are a difficult period for the Eastern Cape province as some families lose their boys through the …
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Trainspotter Rafs Mayet’s maiden Blue Train voyage evokes his family history and comparisons to other locomotive rides he has taken …
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Quick Addo Fact: South African Conservation Success. Addo is the third largest national park in South Africa and one of our country’s top conservation success stories. From its start in 1931 with only 11 elephants, the park is now home to over 600 of these mammals plus a growing and varied collection of wildlife – from endangered rhino to rare flightless dung beetles.

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Eastern Cape’s leading media house backs environmental causes – Kirkwood

Eastern Cape media house Algoa FM is using all of its channels to back a number of environmental and social causes that impact on the daily lives of listeners and the economic future of the region in …
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The SA Weather Service has issued a warning as severe thunderstorms are expected in parts of the province on Monday afternoon.
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Perhaps the new guard will bring home the buck, or perhaps they will learn their lessons. But one thing is certain: the coming season will be an exciting year for the fans and players alike.
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Quick Addo Fact: The penguins in Addo are in trouble – Despite having elephant in the name, Addo Elephant National Park extends right down to the ocean and currently protects some very important islands in Algoa Bay, namely St Croix and Bird Island. African Penguins are more threatened than rhino are at this stage. Because they’re not a key species or a high profile one that people really know about, or care about penguins are on the sidelines. Their numbers have dwindled alarmingly and every ten years or so, their numbers halve and if it goes on at that rate, in the next twenty or thirty years there won’t be penguins around.’ Addo is responsible for the protection of about 50 percent of the total African Penguin population.

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SANParks asks public to stop sharing gruesome rhino shooting, dehorning video – Addo

The South African National Parks (SANParks) management has advised members of the public against sharing a video of a rhino that was shot and dehorned at the Kruger National Park last week.
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SANParks said the rhino cow was euthanized due to the extent of her wounds and level of infection after her horn was brutally hacked off.
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“SANParks is aware of a video circulating on social media depicting the severely injured white rhino cow; the video is distressing to watch,” warned SANParks’s Ike Phaatla.
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Quick Addo Fact: South African Conservation Success. Addo is the third largest national park in South Africa and one of our country’s top conservation success stories. From its start in 1931 with only 11 elephants, the park is now home to over 600 of these mammals plus a growing and varied collection of wildlife – from endangered rhino to rare flightless dung beetles.

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Gift of the Givers opens R5m facility at Nkqubela TB Hospital – Kirkwood

Africa’s largest NGO, Gift of the Givers Foundation, officially opened the newly upgraded facility at East London’s Nkqubela TB Hospital on Thursday.
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The National Consumer Council is probing Grandisyn CC the supplier of the Howe Instant Noodles following the death of three children in the Eastern Cape.
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The new cases continued to be concentrated in Gauteng, although there were significant increases in new infections across SA – with only the Northern Cape (191 cases) and the Eastern Cape (941 cases) …
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo features a main camp, featuring a swimming pool, restaurant, flood lit water hole and various accommodation, four other rest camps and four camps run by concessionaires. The main entrance as well as two looped tourist roads in the park are tarred while the others are graveled. There is also an additional access road through the southern block of the park feeding off the N2 highway near Colchester; it joins up with the existing tourist roads in the park.

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Uptick in South Africa’s cellphone, internet access

Statistics SA’s annual survey shows 89.4% of South African households exclusively use cellular phones, as access to landlines continues to diminish.
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Gift of the Givers, at the request of the Eastern Cape MEC of Sport, Arts and Culture, Fezeke Nkomonye, intervened to assist.
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As the ANC in Eastern Cape prepares for its elective congress, its chairperson, Oscar Mabuyane, has called on provincial leaders to accept the outcomes of the conference. Mabuyane, who is poised to be …
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Quick Addo Fact: Unique Vegetation and Longest Dunes in Southern Hemisphere. The park is also unique in that it protects an immense array of vegetation, which stretches from the semi-arid Karoo to rugged mountains, through river valleys and all the way down to a wild coastline with the longest dunes in the southern hemisphere.

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SANParks CEO Fundisile Mketeni and two senior officials are receiving full pay while investigations into assault and sexual harassment allegations are conducted.
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Quick Addo Fact: Sylvester the lion lives in Addo – The iconic black-maned lions of the Kalahari were introduced to Addo over ten years ago. The big reason for choosing these lions (as opposed to somewhere like Kruger) is because they are disease-free and will not affect the buffalo population, which might have otherwise caught tuberculosis. The other reason, is that these Kalahari lions are seen to be the closest match to the now-extinct Cape Lion which used to roam the Addo area. If you want to see Sylvester, the famous lion who managed to duck under the fence in the Karoo National Park, then you need to stay at Kuzuko Lodge in the northern Darlington section of Addo. Getaway was also tipped that the park is finishing adequate fencing in this section and it’ll soon be home to the Big Five.

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Apply Alutha Pasile case efficiency and vigour to Timothy Omotoso trial, says CGE – Kirkwood

With the prevalence of gender-based violence, the CGE said South Africa will likely miss this Sustainable Development Goal target, which will reflect poorly on the country’s efforts in the fight …
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The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has welcomed the 25-year jail sentence handed to convicted killer, Alutha Pasile, for the brutal murder of his girlfriend Nosicelo Mtebeni. The CGE said the …
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Shell has been given the go-ahead to proceed with its seismic survey off the Eastern Cape coast. The ruling was delivered by Judge Avinash Govindjee at the Eastern Cape Division of the Makhanda High …
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Quick Addo Fact: Largest Breeding Colony of African Penguins. Addo Elephant National Park’s St Croix Island protects the world’s largest breeding ground of the endangered African Penguins.

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Eastern Cape – The Asset Forfeiture Unit of the NPA has been granted a preservation order against the R3-million property owned by Zandisile Qupe, the …
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They cleaned me out in two days,” says a distraught Eastern Cape farmer Jannie Louw, who watched helplessly as thick …
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Mazda and Getaway’s much-talked about series, which takes street artists into the hinterland to create new work, heads to the Eastern Cape.
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo is a beautiful biodiversity hotspot – Our entire country can be divided into just nine biomes (a unique ecological unit with a characteristic set of plant, animal species and climate) and Addo stretches over five of these biomes, namely the Thicket, Forest, Succulent Karoo, Fynbos and Nama Karoo, and each biome has its own sets of key species. The big goal for the park is now to consolidate the land it has and create a functional ecological unit that stretches from the Karoo all across the mountains, fynbos, forest into the thicket and down across the coastal dune system. This diversity is key to its success. Conservation Manager John Adendorff says, ‘Addo is one of the most profitable parks. There’s nothing that even comes close for its size. It runs at 98% occupancy and there are very few spikes in the year, so it’s just consistent. It’s fully booked all the time and a very difficult place to get into.’

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People bitten by dogs urged not to delay medical care, warns eThekwini Municipality as city’s rabies cases spike – Kirkwood

Thekwini Municipality has warned about a spike in rabies cases in Durban after seven cases were reported this year, two of which were reported last week.
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The trial of an Eastern Cape man accused of killing Fort Hare University student Nosicelo Mtebeni is currently under way.
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In a country that is filled with a great pool of current events, research in recent years has found that strong local journalism builds social …
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo Elephant National Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park situated close to Port Elizabeth in South Africa and is one of the country’s 20 national parks. It currently ranks third in size after Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. The original section of the park was founded in 1931, in part due to the efforts of Sydney Skaife, in order to provide a sanctuary for the eleven remaining elephants in the area. The park has proved to be very successful and currently houses more than 600 elephants and a large number of other mammals.

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Matric Rage organisers keeping an eye on COVID-19 developments – Kirkwood

Balito Rage is expected to kick off on Tuesday the first of a series of Matric Rage festivals which include Plettenberg Bay and Jeffreys Bay.
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The Buffalo Sabres and Detroit Red Wings have been two inconsistent teams overall so far this season in the National Hockey League, but one aspect of their seasons has been consistent: The Sabres …
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Australians attempting to return from nine southern African nations to be subject to hotel quarantine. This blog is now closed …
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Quick Addo Fact: Happy Elephants – Guides in Addo don’t carry firearms because these elephants are some of the gentlest in the country. They don’t feel threatened around cars and even in musth pose little threat – that said tourists should never get too close as it makes an elephant feel threatened, rather give them space and park the car a little away. More often than not, the ellies will come to you. A large majority – rumoured to be around 90 percent – of the female elephants in Addo have no tusks. Bull elephants were introduced from Kruger to the widen genetic pool, so tusks are becoming more common.

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Poaching moves to cattle as SANParks communities plead for help – Addo

Villages that neighbour the Kruger National Park face the terrors of armed stock thieves and poachers who are involved in cross-border crime …
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We are in the midst of the 16th annual SA National Parks (SANParks) Week, which runs from November 22 through to November 28. Sadly, we are also in the midst of a spate of muggings and car break-ins.
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DON’T take a child to a national park when he is in matric, take him when he is much younger. How we engage the youth in nature conservation, will determine the way forward in protecting and …
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo is a beautiful biodiversity hotspot – Our entire country can be divided into just nine biomes (a unique ecological unit with a characteristic set of plant, animal species and climate) and Addo stretches over five of these biomes, namely the Thicket, Forest, Succulent Karoo, Fynbos and Nama Karoo, and each biome has its own sets of key species. The big goal for the park is now to consolidate the land it has and create a functional ecological unit that stretches from the Karoo all across the mountains, fynbos, forest into the thicket and down across the coastal dune system. This diversity is key to its success. Conservation Manager John Adendorff says, ‘Addo is one of the most profitable parks. There’s nothing that even comes close for its size. It runs at 98% occupancy and there are very few spikes in the year, so it’s just consistent. It’s fully booked all the time and a very difficult place to get into.’

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Take the road and see SA up-close this summer

Need a change of lockdown scenery to wind down another pandemic punctuated year? Thanks to Dunlop’s #TheBigDrive Summer Promo, you can now enjoy a socially-distanced summer escape. See South Africa up …
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The NSRI says its Kommetjie duty crew was activated following an eyewitness report of a drowning in progress at Silvermine Dam.
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo features a main camp, featuring a swimming pool, restaurant, flood lit water hole and various accommodation, four other rest camps and four camps run by concessionaires. The main entrance as well as two looped tourist roads in the park are tarred while the others are graveled. There is also an additional access road through the southern block of the park feeding off the N2 highway near Colchester; it joins up with the existing tourist roads in the park.

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South Africans get free access to national parks during SANParks Week – Addo

South Africans will have free access to all the country’s national parks from Monday until Friday as part of the annual South African National Parks (SANParks) Week initiative.
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A retired politician and an empowerment company are at loggerheads with SANParks as a flagship tourism deal turns sour.
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Cape Town police are investigating the death of a man at Silvermine Dam found allegedly drowned in the dam on Saturday morning.
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Quick Addo Fact: Sylvester the lion lives in Addo – The iconic black-maned lions of the Kalahari were introduced to Addo over ten years ago. The big reason for choosing these lions (as opposed to somewhere like Kruger) is because they are disease-free and will not affect the buffalo population, which might have otherwise caught tuberculosis. The other reason, is that these Kalahari lions are seen to be the closest match to the now-extinct Cape Lion which used to roam the Addo area. If you want to see Sylvester, the famous lion who managed to duck under the fence in the Karoo National Park, then you need to stay at Kuzuko Lodge in the northern Darlington section of Addo. Getaway was also tipped that the park is finishing adequate fencing in this section and it’ll soon be home to the Big Five.

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LISTEN | Meet Eastern Cape Springboks fan who got his undies signed – Kirkwood

It was a Springboks supporter wearing just his SA flag broeks while watching the Springboks beat Scotland 30-15 at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh last weekend who stole the show.
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Global Drummer and Marmara Sea have plundered Eastern Cape’s top division in the 1200m-1800m range over the past two years, clocking up 11 wins apiece.
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A tow truck operator conducted the most difficult and important rescue of his life on Monday November 15 when he lifted a truck off his own son.
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Quick Addo Fact: The penguins in Addo are in trouble – Despite having elephant in the name, Addo Elephant National Park extends right down to the ocean and currently protects some very important islands in Algoa Bay, namely St Croix and Bird Island. African Penguins are more threatened than rhino are at this stage. Because they’re not a key species or a high profile one that people really know about, or care about penguins are on the sidelines. Their numbers have dwindled alarmingly and every ten years or so, their numbers halve and if it goes on at that rate, in the next twenty or thirty years there won’t be penguins around.’ Addo is responsible for the protection of about 50 percent of the total African Penguin population.

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Horse owners in the rural Eastern Cape say they are desperate for government help. Their horses are attacked and often stolen. Drought and new settlements, informal and formal, are shrinking the …
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Judgment in the theft case of a student at the Walter Sisulu University in the Eastern Cape only be delivered on the 4th of December.
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UDM leader Bantu Holomisa has hit back at Eastern Cape MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Xolile Nqatha after he tried to stop the meeting of the new councillors at the Nelson …
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo is a beautiful biodiversity hotspot – Our entire country can be divided into just nine biomes (a unique ecological unit with a characteristic set of plant, animal species and climate) and Addo stretches over five of these biomes, namely the Thicket, Forest, Succulent Karoo, Fynbos and Nama Karoo, and each biome has its own sets of key species. The big goal for the park is now to consolidate the land it has and create a functional ecological unit that stretches from the Karoo all across the mountains, fynbos, forest into the thicket and down across the coastal dune system. This diversity is key to its success. Conservation Manager John Adendorff says, ‘Addo is one of the most profitable parks. There’s nothing that even comes close for its size. It runs at 98% occupancy and there are very few spikes in the year, so it’s just consistent. It’s fully booked all the time and a very difficult place to get into.’

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Health MEC welcomes continued decline in East Cape Covid-19 cases – Kirkwood

Health MEC Nomakhosazana Meth said she was happy with the continued decline in the number of active Covid-19 cases in the Eastern Cape.
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Barista Babsie Mtya went from being an unemployed graduate to owning her own coffee shop, fulfilling a dream and putting a kick in Gqeberha’s coffee scene.
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Buffalos and rhinos tend to live in the same environments and compete for the same resources, so it’s surprising that they don’t clash more.
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Quick Addo Fact: South African Conservation Success. Addo is the third largest national park in South Africa and one of our country’s top conservation success stories. From its start in 1931 with only 11 elephants, the park is now home to over 600 of these mammals plus a growing and varied collection of wildlife – from endangered rhino to rare flightless dung beetles.

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A Belgian woman had to receive emergency medical care after falling ill during a kayaking trip in the Tsitsikamma National Park in the Eastern Cape.
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Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Social Development has highlighted issues contained in the Children’s Amendment Bill and its importance to the people of Buffalo City during public hearings.
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If you are a film creative who needs a platform to showcase your film or documentary, the sixth annual EC Film Festival is at your doorstep.
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Quick Addo Fact: Tourism – In 2018 the highest visitor count in the park’s 87-year history was recorded. The park received 305,510 visitors between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2018 (up from 265,585 in the previous year). International visitors make up 55% of this number, with German, Dutch and British nationals in the majority.

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Strong EC presence in SA u21 hockey squad – Kirkwood

Sixteen nations will be descending on South Africa for the Junior Hockey World Cup which will be hosted at Potchefstroom University from 5-16 December.
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The villagers accuse the mayor of neglecting them. The village has a crisis with water, sanitation problems and its access roads are in a terrible state. The villagers decided to punish the ANC by not …
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Government is stepping up its District Development Model, first launched in the OR Tambo district in the Eastern Cape in 2019. The model is now being implemented on a 600 kilometre stretch of …
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo is the only national park where you can hire a guide to take you around the park in your own car – A hop-on guide means that you drive and he guides, advising which routes to take and providing insight on Addo history, wildlife, botany and more. At the moment, there is only one hop-on guide in the park, but they are looking for more.

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Covid-19 infection rates and new hospitalisations continue to decrease in the Eastern Cape ahead of the holiday season.
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Ocean lovers in the Eastern Cape are upset and deeply opposed to Shell’s Wild Coast seismic survey. Dean Knox, teacher, and director of Jonginenge Eco-Adventure in East London, said he feared the …
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The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) have welcomed the arrest of four Eastern Cape business people for allegedly defrauding the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) to the tune of over R2 …
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