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Makhanda News: Here’s what you need to know about the 45th National Arts Festival

27 June 2019 By Port Elizabethan

Here’s what you need to know about the 45th National Arts Festival: It’s all systems go for the opening of the 45th National Arts Festival! The festival kicks off on Thursday 27 June and is set to run until the 7th of July in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown). Fans of …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

Minister Lindiwe Sisulu Intervenes in Water and Sanitation Crisis in Makhanda [press release]: US launches effort to counter China’s economic influence in Africa The Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation, Lindiwe Sisulu, has activated measures which will result in the Minister …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

Makhanda repairing damaged water infrastructure after ‘sabotage’: CAPE TOWN – The Makhanda Municipality says it has set up water points in Makana for residents, as it works on repairing damaged water infrastructure, allegedly caused by sabotage. Thousands of …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

Makhanda lights stay on: The lights will stay on in Makhanda for now after Eskom and the Makana municipality concluded a payment agreement that will see the local authority paying the power utility about R44m in arrears …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

What you should go see at the National Arts Festival 2019: Happening from June 27 to July 7 in Makhanda, the National Arts Festival (NAF) brings 11 days of theatre, music, visual art, performance, film and more. Here are acting executive producer Nobesuthu …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

These 2 Activists Created a ‘Walking Library’ to Empower South African Children: For the past year, Daweti — an environmental education master’s candidate at Rhodes University in the town of Makhanda, Eastern Cape — and Ntshingana — who holds a master’s degree in African languages …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

LETTER: Makhanda is as it has always been: John Perry describes Grahamstown in the 1970s, when he was a student there, as a “beautiful, tree-lined, well-governed university town” (Grahamstown a Shadow of its Former Self, Thanks to ANC, May 24) …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

Water shortage in Makhanda stabilised: Municipality: The Makhanda municipality has given the assurance that the water shortage in Makhanda has stabilised and that there is now more than enough water to go around. The municipality has also agreed to pay …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

Water readiness plan for National Arts Festival in Makhanda: The 45th edition of the National Arts Festival kicks off in Makhanda in a month’s time. The municipality of the historic Eastern Cape town says its water problems have stabilised and Gift of the …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

South Africa: Gift of the Givers to Be Compensated to Some Extent for Work in Makhanda – CEO: Government has agreed to compensate charity organisation Gift of the Givers to a value yet to be determined, for its interventions to alleviate the drought in Makhanda, the organisation said on Friday …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

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