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Smaller parties will emerge as king-makers in Nelson Mandela Bay metro with the ANC unable to get an outright majority.
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BackaBuddy] Nine-year-old Luke Mulvey was attacked by his pet pig on September 30. That’s him in the hospital bed above, with a splintered and fractured arm after …
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South African rail, port and pipeline company Transnet’s subsidiary, Transnet Freight Rail, in October officially reopened the Cookhouse-Blaney branch line in the Eastern Cape. Tasneem Bulbulia tells …
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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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Vodacom has increased its 5G mobile network footprint in the Eastern Cape, with live sites in three municipal districts. These are Nelson Mandela Bay, Buffalo City and the Sarah Baartman municipal …
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Pretoria – The Palm Ridge Specialised Commercial Crimes Court has remanded in custody an alleged fraudster, 42-year-old Wayne Anthony, who was arrested for allegedly defrauding an insurance company of …
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GQEBERHA – South African Police Service dignitaries together with the MEC for Community Safety and Transport Weziwe Tikana-Gxothiwe, Nelson Mandela Bay Chief of Police, Yolande Faro, the Nelson …
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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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He says he was happy with how the community has welcomed vaccination programme especially in the time when vaccine hesitancy was high.
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THE Dweni brothers from Marikana squatter camp in Cape Town were buried in Rhodana Village in Lady Frere, Eastern Cape on Saturday, 23 October.
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EASTERN CAPE – Police in Nelson Mandela Bay are searching for murder suspects in two separate incidents which took place over the weekend in Kwadwesi and Algoa Park respectively. In the first incident …
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Quick Addo Fact: The original Addo Elephant Park was expanded to include the Woody Cape Nature Reserve that extends from the Sundays River mouth towards Alexandria and a marine reserve, which includes St. Croix Island and Bird Island, both breeding habitat for gannets and penguins, not to mention a large variety of other marine life. Bird Island is home to the world’s largest breeding colony of gannets – about 120,000 birds – and also hosts the second largest breeding colony of African penguins, the largest breeding colony being St. Croix island. These marine assets form part of the plan to expand the 1,640 km² Addo National Elephant Park into the 3,600 km² Greater Addo Elephant National Park. The expansion will mean not only that the park contains five of South Africa’s seven major vegetation zones (biomes), but also that it will be the only park in the world to house Africa’s “Big 7“ (elephant, rhinoceros, lion, buffalo, leopard, whale and great white shark) in their natural habitat.

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SA has its first dagga tender. The Eastern Cape Rural Development Agency needs a cannabis seed supplier to provide seed cultivars.
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NATIONAL NEWS – The Eastern Cape Rural Development Agency (ECRDA) has become the first South African government agency to put out two public dagga tenders, marking the start of the province’s bid to …
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Johannesburg- Eastern Cape born Miss South Africa Runner-up Zimi Mabunzi arrived to a rousing welcome at King Phalo International Airport in East London.
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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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AN EASTERN Cape man was handed a triple life sentence for killing three people in one day. Siphelo Bebe was convicted and sentenced in the Bisho High Court on Monday, 18 October to three life terms …
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Tlala, originally an Army Reserves empowerment initiative in accordance with government’s National Development Plan (NDP), appears to have spread into regular landward force units via two SA Army …
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Imagine travelling to the stadium for the biggest game of your life – only to realise you have forgotten your boots.
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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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Most agrarian scholars argue that long historic processes of colonialism, capitalist development and implementation of neo-liberal structural policies in Sub-Saharan Africa have resulted in …
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The Hawks have launched an investigation into the controversial R15m Lesseyton Sports Facility built in the Enoch Mgijima municipality.
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The science and innovation department opens a new science centre in Cofimvaba, Eastern Cape, to support maths, science and tech education.
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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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This week, a local veterinarian helps a Food For Mzansi readers who recently discovered that some of his sheep are suffering from lameness.
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Dlamini-Zuma has been roped in by President Cyril Ramaphosa to resolve the dispute in the Zulu Royal Family after King Misuzulu KaZwelithini was appointed to the Zulu throne. Anot …
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Johannesburg- The court case of the 25-year-old Alutha Pasile, a boyfriend to Nosicelo Mtebeni, who was a final year Law student at the University of Fort …
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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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House price growth in the province is at 8.3% – making it the top performing region in the country, according to Lightstone property data for the month ending June 2021. The CEO of BetterBond, Carl …
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Media Statement South African Police Service Office of the Provincial Commissioner Eastern Cape The Deputy National Commissioner for Crime Detection was hosted by the MEC for Community Safety, Mrs …
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Media Statement South African Police Service Office of the Provincial Commissioner Eastern Cape EASTERN CAPE – A shop owner in Kariega chased after a fleeing robbery suspect and with the assistance of …
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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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EASTERN CAPE – Police in Lusikiski is on the hunt for alleged murder suspect/s after the death of two men, aged 35 and 42, at Sakwe Location. On 27 August 2021 at 16:50, members of the public of Sakwe …
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EASTERN CAPE – Police arrested two men, confiscated a getaway vehicle and recovered two cellphone tower batteries following a high-speed chase in Hankey yesterday. On Saturday, 28 August 2021 at about …
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Two years on, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s R2-billion flagship revitalisation project in the Eastern Cape’s debilitated Duncan Village township is in jeopardy after court action to halt it.  But this …
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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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The Eastern Cape Liquor Board has urged traders to consistently enforce Covid-19 health protocols to prevent further suspensions of alcohol sales. Spokesperson Mgwebi Msiya also urged outlets to …
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An intense cold front will move eastwards into the Eastern Cape from Friday afternoon, as well as the central interior, including KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday …
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Eskom said the incoming cold front may put its network in the Western and Eastern Cape at risk and could lead to power outages.
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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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Commission urges institutions of higher learning and members of civil society to engage students on programmes to fight GBV.
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Midday Report host Mandy Wiener chats to Daily Dispatch reporter Sivenathi Gosa about the Nosicelo Mtebeni murder case.
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Please find attached a soundbite by Nqaba Bhanga.  Today I humbly accept the Democratic Alliance’s nomination as its mayoral candidate for the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro. This is indeed a great honour.
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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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Though it was amazing to be back in his home town Gqeberha, it was tough not having fans inside Nelson Mandela Bay stadium to watch the Springboks beat Argentina, captain Siya Kolisi said.
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Springboks winger Aphelele Fassi scored a fantastic try against Argentina in their opening game of this year’s Rugby Championship.
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The Eastern Cape Health Department says new Covid-19 cases in the province have increased by 28,7% in the last week. It says in the 24 hours up until …
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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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