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Makhanda News: Makhanda School Battles Sanitation Problems Due To Water Cuts

14 March 2019 By Port Elizabethan

Makhanda School Battles Sanitation Problems Due To Water Cuts: FILE: Makhanda residents queue as humanitarian aid group Gift of the Givers delivers water. Picture: facebook.com. CAPE TOWN – A Makhanda school is urging the government to deal with the Eastern Cape …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

DA’s Trollip wins defamation claim over farmworker treatment: The judgment was handed down in the Eastern Cape High Court in Makhanda on Tuesday. Trollip had claimed R6m in damages as a result of the publication on social media, and later in print media …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

ANC’s Andile Lungisa maintains self-defence in bid to overturn assault sentence: Andile Lungisa’s appeal is being heard at the Eastern Cape High Court in Makhanda. Last year, he was sentenced to two years of imprisonment for assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm when he a…
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

Bid to raise R30m for Makhanda water relief programme: Cape Town – Humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers has appealed to the public to help them raise R30million for the drought-stricken town of Makhanda, formerly Grahamstown. Founder Imtiaz Soolim…
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

Plea for visitors: Borehole and rain bring reprieve for Grahamstown Arts Festival: “The festival will have water. We’ve got this.” That is what National Arts Festival CEO Tony Lankester wrote in a letter amid worries about water shortages in Makhanda (Grahamstown) ahead of the festi…
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

It’s elementary, dear children: science fair allows thousands to plug in, fire up: Thousands of animated school children from across the country descended on Makhanda on Wednesday for their first day of fizzing, popping, jaw-dropping and eye-opening science at the start of the 23rd …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

SPECIAL REPORT | Makhanda: The day the taps ran dry: Mary Mkalipi knows hardship. She has gone to bed without food, and has “ironed” her children’s school uniforms under a mattress because she didn’t have money for electricity. “But I have never felt fa…
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

SA’s National Science Festival underway in Makhanda: Academic activities remain suspended at TUT Danana’s resignation from SABC was ’caused by failure to remove Motsoeneng’ EFF a threat to democracy: Brown Five of SA’s wealthiest cracks Forbes richest l…
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

Water donation gives drought-stricken Makhanda a big boost: Makhanda – Makhanda’s drought relief efforts were on Wednesday given a massive boost following a water donation from Engen. Engen partnered with disaster relief organisation Gift of the Givers to dona…
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

Engen partners with Gift of The Givers to assist drought-stricken Makhanda community: / MEDIA STATEMENT / This content is not written by Creamer Media, but is a supplied media statement. When the Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape, which includes drought-stricken …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

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This author is a 'catch-all' for occasional articles and letters written to MyPE. The Author of each article can be found in the signature at the bottom of each individual article.

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