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Members from the Anti-Gang Unit in Gqeberha have arrested a 37-year-old man traveling in a bus from Gauteng and confiscated drugs worth more than R684-thousand.
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Two suspected abalone poachers are expected to appear in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court on Monday, following their arrest in Marine Drive in Gqeberha on Friday.
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The tournament is part of the Sunshine Senior Tour (for players over 50) and chief operations manager Neville Clarke is thrilled that Port Elizabeth has been included in the tour’s schedule.
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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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Advocate Viwe Notshe told the Zondo commission there were delays in the finalisation of the affidavits related to chief executive of Armscor Kevin Wakeford’s evidence.
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KwaZulu-Natal government has expressed fear that the province’s economy would be compromised if TNPA proceeds to relocate its headquarters from the Durban port to the Port of Ngqura in the Eastern …
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Luthuli House has been rocked by an age cheating scandal after it emerged that one of the leaders appointed to the ANCYL national youth task team could be overage.
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Police in Gqeberha are seeking the community’s assistance in tracing a 74-year-old woman who has been out of contact with her family since Christmas Day.
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Police in Gqeberha are seeking the community’s assistance in tracing a 74-year-old woman who has been out of contact with her family since Christmas Day.
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A panel of experts from Nelson Mandela University (NMU) and the Eastern Cape Socio-Economic Consultative Council will address the province’s economic challenges in a webinar on Tuesday.
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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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The Eastern Cape government is forging ahead with plans to tap into the cannabis industry to get the province’s ailing economy moving and create much-needed jobs …
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More red meat producers in the Eastern Cape want to tap into the export industry. While export markets offer lucrative trade opportunities, red meat producers have to meet strict requirements before …
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A cold snap is expected to hit most parts of the country from Friday. The South African Weather Services says the Drakensberg mountains should expect a light snowfall. Gauteng, the Free State, KwaZulu …
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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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Natal…I spent a lot of time in the former Transkei region of the Eastern Cape’ – Jim …
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Nineteen-year-old surfer Tom Lindhorst is studying commerce at NMU and he is amused with the nickname given to what was, until a few months ago, known as Port Elizabeth (it is now Gqeberha). As you …
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The Northern Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa recently experienced their longest drought in 100 years. The seven-year drought, starting with lack of rains in February 2013, wrought …
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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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Despite the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on South Africa’s economy, Trade, Industry and Competition Deputy Minister Nomalungelo Gina says the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) Programme …
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The 28-year-old man accused of murdering Andile Ntuthela and burying his body in a shallow grave – in what is believed to be a homophobic hate crime – appeared in the Kwanobuhle Magistrate’s Court …
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Billionaire family and long-time horse racing fanatics the Oppenheimers are also involved in the business rescue process.
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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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Meanwhile, TNPA Acting General Manager in the office of the Chief Executive, Phillis Difeto, said the relocation will have a major impact on the Eastern Cape’s economy which will create job …
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On November 20 last year the couple tested positive for Covid-19 and were hospitalised in Komani (formerly Queenstown) in the Eastern Cape. Dr Fawzia’s symptoms were a lot less severe than her husband …
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The Municipal Demarcation Board has said it was going back to communities that were unhappy with the redrawing of ward boundaries in various parts of the country, including those threatening blood on …
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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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ZIMBABWE’S junior motocross champion rider Emmanuel Bako once again made his presence felt during the second round of the 2021 South African National Championship series at Rover in Port Elizabeth …
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EASTERN CAPE – Multi disciplinary operation held during Easter Weekend yielded positive results and more suspects arrested for drunken driving and to non-compliance on Disaster Management Regulations …
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CSK reminded that Cheteshwar Pujara and Faf du Plessis have both played some fighting knocks in Test cricket in Adelaide.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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