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INTERVIEW – Swimming-Coronavirus pandemic sees adventurer Bellamy switch challenges – Port Elizabeth in the News

17 April 2020 By Port Elizabethan

INTERVIEW – Swimming-Coronavirus pandemic sees adventurer Bellamy switch challenges: Adventurer Cameron Bellamy’s bid to break the record for the longest swim has been put on hold by the novel coronavirus but being stuck at home during the pandemic has only increased his list of goals …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Covid-19: Homeless in PE ask what will happen after the lockdown is lifted: “I can feel that I am a human being now. Life in the streets is not good, because there is too much violence,” says Nazeera Abrahams, 23, who has been homeless and living in central Port Elizabeth.
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Nelson Mandela Bay to become isolation site: The Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth has reportedly been identified as an isolation site to treat Covid-19 patients. In an interview with the DispatchLIVE website, Nelson Mandela Bay …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

WATCH: Port Elizabeth’s Brendon Peel and Li Lau ace Britain’s Got Talent audition: Port Elizabeth based duo Brendon Peel and Li Lau were lucky enough to get their audition for Britain’s Got Talent in the bag before lockdown began – it was an audition that had the audience and judges …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium to become a coronavirus isolation site: Absa Premiership soccer outfit, Chippa United, also use the stadium as their home base. The Kings and EP moved from Port Elizabeth’s famous Boet Erasmus Stadium to the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Spaza owners pack up after looting!: FOREIGN spaza shop owners are leaving the Northern Areas of Port Elizabeth, despite residents begging them to stay. This comes after a looting spree on Tuesday night, during which residents tried to …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Freshlyground’s Zolani Mahola: Always telling new stories: When she was six years old, her mother went into labour at a Port Elizabeth hospital, never to return home. After her mother’s death, her father married again. From the age of eight to 11 years old, …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Allow prisoners to use phones, says expert, as inmate coronavirus numbers increase: Twenty-six officials had tested positive for the virus. The officials are at the East London Correctional Centre, St Albans Prison outside Port Elizabeth, Worcester in the Western Cape and one at the …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

COVID-19 LIVE UPDATES | SA death toll climbs to 48, with more than 2,600 cases: An employee at the Access Park Woolworths in Port Elizabeth has tested positive for Covid-19. Woolworths spokesperson Silindile Gumede said in a statement that the staff member, from the store along …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

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