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Netcare has had to substantially increase its oxygen capacity at all hospitals and has urgently recalled all front-line staff from leave, the hospital group said on Monday.
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The province has been identified as one of the country’s coronavirus hotspots following the rapid spread of COVID-19, with fears the health system could soon be incapacitated.
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The number of positive Covid-19 cases are increasing faster than anticipated says Health Minister, Zweli Mkhize.
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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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Robin Jackman’s voice took us through highs & lows of cricket: CSA

Cricket South Africa on Saturday condoled the demise of Robin Jackman, former England fast bowler and commentator, who passed away at the age of 75.
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As the Proteas took to the field for the Boxing Day Test match today, Cricket SA (CSA) joined the cricketing world in mourning the loss of Robin David Jackman, aged 75. Jackman, a county and England …
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Early on Friday morning, a group of Mpeni men clashed with a group from the Nokhatshile village resulting in the death of the seven. Six other men were hospitalised.
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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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Chippa United withdraw controversial Luc Eymael appointment

Chippa United have withdrawn Luc Eymael’s controversial appointment after protestation from SAFA and the Eastern Cape provincial government.
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Port Elizabeth-based Premier Soccer League outfit Chippa United says that following a public outcry, its formally withdrawn the appointment of the Belgian, Luc Eymael, as head coach.
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Chippa United bowed to public and government pressure on Thursday by withdrawing the appointment of controversial coach Luc Eymael.
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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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Enel Green Power begins operating South African wind farm – Kirkwood

Italian energy group Enel said on Tuesday the South African unit of its Enel Green Power division had reached commercial operation on its 140 MW Nxuba wind farm in Eastern Cape province.
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EGP’s Nxuba wind farm, the company’s third wind facility in the Eastern Cape province, is expected to generate 460 GWh of energy annually; The facility, which involved an inve …
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At least five countries have suspended flights from South Africa after a coronavirus variant was recently discovered in the co …
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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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Summer initiation season under way in the Eastern Cape (READY)

Thousands of boys are expected to travel to traditional initiation schools in the province to partake in the ritual, after successful lobbying by the Eastern Cape government and traditional leaders.
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A 33-year-old man is due to appear in court in Humansdorp on Monday for the murder of his heavily pregnant wife.
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The Eastern Cape received a much-needed boost in the fight against Covid-19 when more than R1.2m worth of PPE packs were donated to the Gift of the Givers for distribution across the province.
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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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South Africa: SA Records 9,131 Covid-19 Cases, 184 Deaths

The novel Coronavirus continues to spread rapidly amid the second wave of infections, with the country recording another 9 131 confirmed cases in the last 24 hours.
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Kouga Municipality Mayor Horatio Hendricks said that their court bid would be based on the importance of balancing saving lives and livelihoods.
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The Kouga municipality is taking its fight to have Eastern Cape beaches reopened to court. Kouga forms part of the Sarah Baartman District municipality, which was declared a Covid-19 hotspot along …
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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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Policing of Eastern Cape beaches not possible – Kirkwood

Buffalo City mayor Xola Pakati is not 100% sure why the metro has not been declared a Covid-19 hotspot, but he suspects it has to do with fatality numbers being lower than in Eastern Cape districts …
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The Mother City’s beaches will remain open this festive season while beaches in the Garden Route district and in the Eastern Cape are shut until early January. FILE: Camps Bay beach, Cape Town.
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Possible taxi war was averted yesterday afternoon, 14 December 2020 through Safer Festive Season Operations which continue to tighten the grip against criminal activities in the Province. It is …
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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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SA National Parks appoints first black game capture rated pilot – Addo

South African National Parks (SANParks) today celebrates Captain David Simelane, South Africa’s first black game capture rated pilot. Nick …
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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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Eastern Cape police call on owner to claim missing 15 goats, two sheep – Kirkwood

The Eastern Cape Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Liziwe Ntshinga commended the members for the recovery of the suspected stolen livestock.
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Two people have appeared in an Eastern Cape court for their alleged role in a fraudulent bank transferTavern owner Gcinithemba Msana 37 …
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As many as a third of the Eastern Cape’s state ambulance fleet are in for repairs, at a time when Covid-19 numbers in the province are soaring and trauma-related cases are expected to peak over the …
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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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Second wave of Covid-19 infections not surprising – NEHAWU

NEHAWU not shocked by announcement of a second wave of Covid-19 infections. . The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU) is not shocked b …
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A day after it was announced that South Africa was in the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, director of the Gift of the Givers, Imtiaz Sooliman, said their operations had intensified.
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The Eastern Cape Second Adjustment Budget Speech, delivered on 26 November 2020, mirrored the harsh line taken in the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS). The total provincial budget has been …
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Quick Addo Fact: Marine protected areas – The Addo Elephant National Park Marine Protected Area and Bird Island Marine Protected Area are associated with the park.

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SANParks to apply strong Covid-19 measures

GARDEN ROUTE NEWS – The Garden Route National Park (GRNP), consisting of three sections, Tsitsikamma, Knysna and Wilderness, will apply stringent safety measures during this summer holiday. This is …
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David “Blackhawk“ Simelane has made history by becoming the first black game capture rated pilot for SA National Parks (SANParks). He became the first among his peers after completing his game capture …
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Captain David Simelane has been a helicopter pilot for 16 years and has flown all over the world, including Madagascar and South Sudan.
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Quick Addo Fact: Marine protected areas – The Addo Elephant National Park Marine Protected Area and Bird Island Marine Protected Area are associated with the park.

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SASCO PRESIDENT IN HOT WATER! – Kirkwood

THE ANC and its affiliate organisations have called for the suspension of Sasco president, Bamanye Matiwane. Matiwane is accused of assaulting former Sasco regional secretary in the Western Cape, …
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After a worrying silence, SA government has finally given some details for its Covid-19 vaccination plans in the country.
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South African motorists will have to undergo classic drunk-driver tests to detect intoxication this festive season as the use of breathalysers was stopped as a result of the pandemic.
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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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Eastern Cape: What this municipality failed to do in years, Gift of the Givers did in just three days

Villagers in Ngqusha in the Eastern Cape have been asking for clean water for years. The Amathole District Municipality did a survey of borehole sites in the area but found none were suitable for …
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Western Cape premier Alan Winde has welcomed president Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision not to introduce local restrictions in the province.
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Shamwari will reopen its Explorer Camp in 2021. Explorer Camp is a tented safari camp on a basalt and granite hill where guests can explore During the guided walks, rangers share their knowledge of …
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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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Nurses suspended in Eastern Cape for refusing to care for COVID-19 patients

The Eastern Cape Health Department says it’s disappointed that 38 nurses had to be suspended because they refused to care for COVID-19 patients. The suspensions happened at Empilweni TB hospital in …
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EDITORIAL: Gender-based violence, road accidents, the spread of Covid-19 and alcohol abuse – is it really too much to ask that we follow the rules this December?
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The COVID-19 death toll in South Africa has now reached 21 644 after 109 more people succumbed to the respiratory disease on Tuesday, according to the SA Department of Health. SA Coronavirus Update by …
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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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Mkhize must lay cards on table regarding possible level Three lockdown in Eastern Cape.. The Minister of Health, Zweli Mkhize, must play open cards with the peopl …
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Mahle Behr has been recognised as one of Africa’s top Kaizen performers at the Africa Kaizen Annual Conference (AKAC). Mahle Behr was selected to represent South Africa after being crowned national …
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CAPE TOWN – In the Eastern Cape, a husband and father accused of hacking to death his wife and five children has appeared in court. Nowa Makula (32) was arrested last week and detectives believe …
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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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Police Minister General Bheki Cele has lauded the arrest of a man, believed to have hacked his wife and five children to death in the Eastern Cape this week.
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Mamelodi Sundowns are “disappointed” after winger Gaston Sirino made a transfer request, reveals general manager Yogesh Singh.
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Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says his visit to the Eastern Cape was fruitful and will inform his recommendations to cabinet.
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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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No updates on missing KNP ranger as yet

The search for missing Kruger National Park (KNP) field ranger, Checkers Mashego, continues unabated with police and SANParks task teams as well as the community all joining in.
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Chaotic scenes played out on the road leading to the Punda Maria gate of the Kruger National Park early this week when scores of Matiyani residents littered the R524 with rocks, logs and other objects …
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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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2015 BMW X6 xDRIVE 40d for sale in Eastern Cape – Kirkwood

Used BMW X6 xDRIVE 40d for sale in Eastern Cape, car manufactured in 2015 (ID:6648431) …
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The Eastern Cape Health Department on Tuesday warned the province’s health system could buckle under pressure if it continued on the same trajectory with rising COVID-19 infections. The province alone …
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Nelson Mandela Bay metro is the province’s hotspot, and had 6,285 recorded active cases on Sunday, a huge increase on the 167 recorded three weeks earlier …
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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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State prosecutor passes away after a short illness

The National Prosecuting Authority has confirmed the death of senior State prosecutor Advocate Zukile Mdolomba.
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A battle exacerbated by a corruption syndicate is brewing in the Eastern Cape after premier Oscar Mabuyane’s top advisor, Zandisile Qupe, was one of nine people arrested by the Hawks.
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Tributes are pouring in following the passing of the UDM’s Deputy National Chairperson and Member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature, Mncedisi Filtane, who died of COVID-19 on Sunday.
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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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South Africa: Defamation Claim – Makhanda Activist’s Legal Team Wants to Cross-Examine Eastern Cape MEC – Kirkwood

The legal team for a Makhanda community leader, who is fighting an interdict to silence him from Eastern Cape MEC for Transport, Safety and Liaison Weziwe Tikana-Gxotiwe, has filed legal argument at …
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There is literally nothing left of the Mthatha farmlands they loved and nourished. In this exclusive piece, small-scale farmers share their harrowing stories of the devastation caused by a tornado.
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As an entrepreneur that lives by vision statements of ambition and purpose, Magopeni, who is the company’s director, shares why he decided to invest in the city’s property market, and how the business …
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Quick Addo Fact: Marine protected areas – The Addo Elephant National Park Marine Protected Area and Bird Island Marine Protected Area are associated with the park.

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Bones vanish somewhere between police and Eastern Cape funeral parlour

A distraught family who was told the skeletal remains of their dead sister had gone missing from a funeral parlour is threatening to take the police to court unless her bones are returned to them.
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An 18-year-old Grade 11 pupil was arrested in Bethelsdorp in the Eastern Cape for allegedly taking an unlicensed firearm to school. According to police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu …
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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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93 Matrics test positive for COVID-19 during second week of exams

Matric exams recently tied up its second week and the Department of Basic Education (DBE) has reported that 93 students have tested positive for COVID-19 in that period. These numbers line up with the …
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Health Minister Zweli Mkkhize has planned a visit to the Eastern Cape after an increase in Covid-19 infections in Nelson Mandela Bay. The health department aims to stem the spread of the virus 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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Eastern Cape bishop ordered to start serving 12-year sentence for corruption

Episcopal Church of Ethiopia Bishop Mzukisi Banzana’s appeal challenging his conviction and sentence for corruption has been dismissed and he will serve 12 years in prison.
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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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Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane tests positive for Covid-19 – Kirkwood

Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane has tested positive for Covid-19. His office announced this in a statement on Thursday afternoon.
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The Premier of the Eastern Cape Province Oscar Mabuyane has tested positive for coronavirus. Premier Mabuyane had flu symptoms prompting him to take a coronavirus test.
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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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Great Addo and Surrounds Accommodation Choices: Addo, Eastern Cape | Addo Village, Addo | Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape | Greater Addo Route, Eastern Cape | Sunland, Addo | Colchester, Addo | Kirkwood, Addo | Paterson, Addo | Alicedale, Addo | Zuurberg, Addo