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Grahamstown in the news: I AIMED FOR PRISKA BUT GOT GETTY!

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I AIMED FOR PRISKA BUT GOT GETTY!: Andisiwe said that as a young girl she fell in love with acting while at Victoria Girls’ Primary School in Grahamstown. “I was in the school plays and a member of the junior orchestra, playing the recorder,” she said. On Saturdays she would train in …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

Matthew Lester on #FeesMustFall and the top 1%: He is a chartered accountant who has worked at Deloitte, SARS and BDO. A member of the Davis Tax Committee investigating the structure of aspects of the RSA tax system, he is based in Grahamstown. Follow him @ProfMattLester.
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

Fees protesters call for probe into police action: Police accompanied fees protesters who marched this afternoon Friday 21 October 2016 from Rhodes University to the Grahamstown Police Station, where they delivered a memorandum alleging police brutality. Grahamstown Police spokesperson Captain Mali …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

Magnet Theatre to Stage 23 YEARS, A MONTH AND 7 DAYS and KUDU: In 2011 he went to Grahamstown with a production called Ibhekile Evuzayo (Leaking Calabash). In 2014 and 2015 he was part of the training at Magnet Theatre. Natasha Gana is a 26 years old actress from Cape Town from Nyanga East. She finished her matric in …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

University Students Protest #FeesMustFall: A Violent Week Shakes South Africa to Its Core: Other institutions have also reported violent attacks that included vandalism and stone throwing in the University of Cape Town and Rhodes University in the city of Grahamstown. Free education is not a new concept, there have been success stories where …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

WSU students say they were playing pool before arrest: The rioting students dispersed after it starting raining and police fired rubber bullets. In Grahamstown, a Rhodes University #FeesMustFall student arrested for the second time on allegations of public violence and malicious damage to property, accused a …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

Let’s get this straight – the police, not the students, are the main cause of campus violence: The Minister of Police has agreed to financially compensate Ayanda Kota, the chair of the Unemployed People’s Movement, for a brutal group assault by police while in custody in the Grahamstown police station in 2012. Professor Richard Pithouse …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

Johan Bloom paints time, space and universality through cosmic colour: Having grown up between Botswana and Mozambique, the Swedish artist has recently relocated to Grahamstown, South Africa where he now lives and paints. His works, the result of much planning and process, are alive with colour and movement. Rich characters …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

Strong start by rowers: “Our first event next year is the Settlers Sprints Regatta over 1 000m on the Settlers Dam, in Grahamstown, on January 28. Then the Buffalo Regatta in East London on February 17 and 18.”
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

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