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New entrance for hikers to Groeneweide forest opens this weekend

GEORGE NEWS – SANParks is opening a new access point to the Groeneweide hiking trail in time for this Easter weekend, on 1 April. Access used to be from the Nelson Mandela University (NMU) campus, but …
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo is home to the biggest dune fields in South Africa – In a lesser-known stretch of Addo, where the park meets the sea, there’s a great gathering of high and wide dunes known as the Alexandria Dune Field. This dune sea, as it’s also known, is the largest and least degraded of its kind in the whole southern hemisphere, stretching over 15 800 hectares, with its widest point being five kilometres from the sea. You can park your car at Woody Cape Backpackers and stroll along for ten minutes on the boardwalk and see the immense dune field from a beautiful viewpoint on the beach. Go and see the dunes when the coral trees are also in flower, from June to October, when they form a red blanket over the tree canopy.

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Court order obtained against Great Kei Municipality to enforce bylaws

Agri Eastern Cape president Doug Stern says repeated requests to the Municipality to address this problem over many years resulted in very little action being taken.
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The Eastern Cape Health Department has extended the contracts of 8 000 health workers, who would have lost their jobs in the province.
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The contracts of the health-care workers hired to bolster the Eastern Cape’s front line to fight Covid-19 have been extended by three months, while those working in communities were pushed to 12 …
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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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After a week-long search, the body of a missing man was sadly discovered early this morning, Saturday 27 March 2021. The 69-year-old’s body was found floating in the dam, which lies within the Central …
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CAPE TOWN – The body of a man who disappeared while hiking at Silvermine Nature Reserve in Cape Town a part of the Table Mountain National Park, last weekend has been found. A body was discovered …
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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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Silvermine Dam to remain closed to search for missing hiker (69) – Addo

Silvermine Dam, with the Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town will remain closed to the public until further notice.
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Information provided to The Citizen by the following SANParks experts: Aquatic biodiversity manager Eddie Riddell, Vlakteplaas section ranger Stephen Midzi, senior conservation manager Navashni …
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PRESS OFFICE] Mastercard will launch a new Priceless digital experience with a video featuring recording artist Jeremy Loops performing his hit song ‘Down South’ on the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway …
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Quick Addo Fact: Massive Reintroduction of Historical Species. Many species that historically lived in the have been successfully reintroduced to the park including lion, hyena, cheetah and mountain zebra.

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Controversial Watsons’ wind farm approval overturned on review – Kirkwood

In an about-turn, the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) has refused environmental authorisation for a controversial wind farm in the mountains near Uitenhage. A review …
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With the Easter weekend looming, researchers and epidemiological experts reckon our third wave is going to arrive sooner than originally anticipated.
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The third Covid-19 wave is due to hit the two big Eastern Cape metros of Nelson Mandela Bay and Buffalo City by the end of March/beginning of April. This is sooner than expected and we are confident …
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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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Avril Williamson, has emphasised the institutionalisation of long-range planning in the development of Port St Johns as a new coastal city.
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Majola released a video on Sunday after visiting the boy’s home in Ugie in the Eastern Cape, voicing his disgust at what the child had been subjected to, and calling on authorities to immediately …
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The idyllic Eastern Cape town of Port St Johns is set to be developed into a major coastal city, through government’s District Development Model …
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Quick Addo Fact: Mega Park. Starting from just 4,000 hectares the park now protects 186,000 hectares two islands. A further huge (200,000 ha) marine protected area is in the planning.

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Jail terms for rhino poachers – Addo

SANParks has welcomed this week’s successful prosecution in two long-standing rhino poaching court cases in the Mhala Regional Court.
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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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Police have launched a manhunt for two balaclava-clad suspects who gunned down four young men at Joe Slovo in Cofimvaba on Tuesday evening. Eastern Cape police spokesperson Brigadier Thembinkosi …
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A video began circulating recently describing an 11-year-old school pupil being forced to retrieve a cellphone from a pit toilet in an Eastern Cape school. RELATED: E Cape Ed Dept slams principal …
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The Covid-19 strain, known as the South African variant, that became dominant in the country towards the end of 2020 may have emerged from the coast of the Eastern Cape after the first wave of …
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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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Groups embark on mass clean-up on parts of Table Mountain – Addo

“However, FOTM would like to reiterate that SANParks is being paid to manage TMNP and allowed TMNP to deteriorate for the last 20 years – and they will ultimately remain responsible to recover TMNP to …
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Quick Addo Fact: Most Diverse Game Park – Addo Elephant National Park is said to be the most diverse game park on Earth. The area includes five biomes – Karoo, grassland, fynbos, thicket and forest.

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SA veteran actress found dead in her Honeydew home – Kirkwood

The 44-year-old from Eastern Cape was best known for her roles in television drama series such as Tsha-Tsha and Intersections on SABC 1.
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Police say preliminary reports indicate that there was no foul play in the death of the Eastern Cape-born actress Noxolo Maqashalala.
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If the aim was to showcase the Eastern Cape’s beauty to a wider audience then this #SUVChallenge sure was the best way.
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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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A man, estimated to be 23, was shot dead during an alleged attempted hijacking on the N2 freeway near the Kempston Road off-ramp on Friday morning.
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Bhisho, Kariega, Graaff-Reinet and Makhanda are all expected to reach a midday high of 40 degrees while many other towns will be in the mid to high thirties.
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He later retired from public life to live in his remote village of Qunu, in the Eastern Cape area, and last made a public appearance when his country hosted the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament.
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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 gets bonus of R1bn to fight Covid-19

The Eastern Cape has been given a bonus of R1bn to combat Covid-19 and roll out vaccinations. This was announced by finance MEC Mlungisi Mvoko, who tabled his 2021/2022 budget in Bhisho on Wednesday.
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The Eastern Cape’s wage bill is set to be slashed by R22bn before the end of the 2023/2024 financial year — a move that is likely to set the provincial government and workers’ unions on a collision …
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As the reality of joining the jobless queue looms large, dozens of Eastern Cape Covid-19 nurses whose contracts come to an end later this month protested in Bhisho on Wednesday. The nurses have been …
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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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Irregular spending of R200-million at SANParks – the national parks entity – trumps profits that have poured out of Table Mountain. Livid locals want the big chiefs to explain what they have done with …
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Due to the uncertainty around COVID-19 and travel restrictions, we have decided to cancel the 2021 Savanna Networking meeting.
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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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Municipality renamed after Winnie Madikizela-Mandela – Kirkwood

Mbizana Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape has been renamed Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Local Municipality. The area is renamed after its most famous daughter. The new name of the municipality, …
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The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) has warned the public to exercise caution at beaches after two men drowned in Port Elizabeth this week.
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The Alice magistrate’s court, in the Eastern Cape, has been gutted by fire. According to the department of justice and constitutional development, the court caught fire on Friday afternoon. Department …
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Quick Addo Fact: You can also see super pods of dolphins – Algoa Bay has been named as the bottlenose dolphin capital of the world after photograph proof and scientific studies showed that an estimated population of 28 482 individuals make use of these waters, making it the largest along the South African coastline.

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Within hours of Love Island SA debut #LoveIslandOrania was trending – in reference to the famous ‘whites-only’ Northern Cape town.
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An unknown number of crocodiles escaped from a Bonnievale farm in the Western Cape and a frantic search is underway to recapture them.
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A taxi conductor died and five people were injured when a taxi overturned and caught fire on William Slammert Drive in Bethelsdorp on Thursday.
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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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Couple tied up in Theescombe house robbery – Kirkwood

Police in Gqeberha, formerly Port Elizabeth, are searching for four suspects who allegedly robbed a couple at their home in Theescombe on Saturday evening.
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Instead of prioritising the changing names of cities and airports, the government should focus on saving and creating more jobs.
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It is reported that the driver of a German luxury sedan crashed into a boundary wall at the corner of Sutherland and Blakeway streets and burst into flames.
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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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6 fun things to do in Gqeberha this weekend – Kirkwood

Port Elizabeth, which had also previously been called Nelson Mandela Bay, will now carry the name of Gqeberha following approval and gazetting of the name by the Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture, …
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South Africa’s Western Cape region has reported its first cases of African swine fever at two small farms, after outbreaks in other parts of the country, the provincial head of agriculture said.
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Jeffreys Bay, Uitenhage and St Francis Bay, are perfect for buyers looking for an easy lifestyle close to schools, the beach and amenities.
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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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South Africa: Learners Doorstop Eastern Cape Premier and MEC to Complain About School Conditions – Kirkwood

Eastern Cape Equal Education head Athenkosi Sopitshi reads out a memorandum to Premier Oscar Mabuyane during a picket outside the Mandla Makupula Leadership Institute in East London on Tuesday. Photo: …
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Soci told Algoa FM News that she could not discuss the reasons cited by van der Merwe as to why the charges were withdrawn.
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That’s the word from Zukile Jodwana, the Deputy Chairperson for the Geographical Names Committee in the Eastern Cape. On Tuesday, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthetwa approved several name changes …
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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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General’s annual review of the Department of Environment’s finances has uncovered irregular, wasteful and unaccounted for expenditure.
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Two suspects were detained and handed to SAPS, who arrested them for possession of drugs and dangerous weapons.
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They were taken in by rangers near the Kleinplaas Dam and apparently had drugs and weapons in their possession.
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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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The car of kidnapped East London businessman Schalk van der Merwe has been found abandoned in bushes near Ngqamakhwe, outside Butterworth.
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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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Former Eastern Cape health department head Dr Thobile Mbengashe will face disciplinary action for his role in the controversial medical scooter tender. This was announced by premier Oscar Mabuyane …
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The MEC is among a group of people who appeared in court last week over alleged multi-million rand corruption in arrangements for the funeral of former President Nelson Mandela in 2013.
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Around half of South Africa’s population is thought to have contracted COVID-19, studies and statisticians say, suggesting the virus has claimed tens of thousands more lives than officially recorded.
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Quick Addo Fact: The flora within the AENP is quite varied, and like all plant life, is a central factor to the ecological system in place. Several species of rare and endemic plants, particularly succulent shrubs and geophytes are native to the South African region within the AENP. Many species are under environmental pressure, however, and are facing possible extinction.

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First published in GroundUp. Desperate job-seekers are falling victim to fake job posts on Facebook, Indeed.com, and other platforms that pretend to offer stable employment. Thirty-year-old Sandiso …
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I’ve made hundreds of traditional lamb curries, but decided to ring the changes with this lamb rib curry cooked in a potjie with curry spices and homemade ginger beer.
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The court found that abalone poacher Solomon Sauls had been working in cahoots with nine officials from the department.
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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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28-year-old man sentenced to 25 years in jail for armed robbery of a tobacco vehicle

The Mdatsane regional court has sentenced a 28-year-old man to 25 years in prison for his involvement in an armed robbery of a tobacco vehicle in 2015.
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JOHANNESBURG – The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union says it’s not prepared to work with Eastern Cape Health MEC, Sindiswa Gomba. Gomba is accused of involvement in a R10-million …
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EASTERN CAPE- Mdatsane Regional Court sentenced Ndibulele Siqu (28) to 15 years in prison for robbery, five years imprisonment for possession of an unlicensed firearm and another five years …
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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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Eastern Cape Health MEC Sindiswa Gomba has arrived at the East London Magistrate’s Court on charges of fraud, money laundering, the contravention of the Municipal Finance Management Act and corruption …
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President Cyril Ramaphosa did little to inspire hope in the government’s strategy of boosting the economy, but all is not lost, political analysts say …
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Eleven people appeared in court while another is in self-isolation. Among the suspects are the Eastern Cape MEC for Health, Sindiswa Gomba, and African National Congress Regional chairperson Phumlani …
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Quick Addo Fact: Not Just the Big Five – the Big Seven. Addo (as us locals call it!) is home to the Big Seven. This includes the Big Five of elephant, lion, buffalo, leopard, rhino plus great white sharks and southern right whales.

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