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Makhanda News: Ramaphosa’s Eastern Cape charm offensive

5 May 2019 By Port Elizabethan

Ramaphosa’s Eastern Cape charm offensive: This week’s campaign trail follows on from Ramaphosa’s visit to Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown) last weekend, where he delivered the keynote address on Freedom Day to celebrate 25 years of …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

South Africa marks Freedom Day, apartheid ended 25 years ago: “There are many social ills that we are dealing with.” President Cyril Ramaphosa marked Freedom Day at a rally in Makhanda in Eastern Cape province. “On this day 25 years ago, we founded a new country …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

Makana municipality is a city in deep crisis: The city of Makhanda, formerly Grahamstown, is home to the National Arts Festival, Rhodes University, a nest of private and public schools, and a regional high court. It should be a lodestar for the …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

CapeTalk listener? Share your thoughts so you can win a R2 500 Takealot voucher!: Ramaphosa uses Freedom Day speech to highlight water crisis in Makhanda Gift of the Givers distributed 120,000 litres of water for free after the event, as its almost two-month long R22-million …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

Chasing down a childhood dream: Pope recalled. Her interest in the natural world rose to a new level during her junior year, when Pope studied abroad at Rhodes University in Makhanda, South Africa. She explored diverse environments …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

My Broadband’s Vermeulen questions why USB power sockets must have switches: Freedom Day celebrations start in Makhanda as President Ramaphosa arrives Freedom Day celebrations officially started in Makhanda in the Eastern Cape with the arrival of President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

Agri News Podcast: Jail-time for rhino poachers: According to departmental spokesperson, Albi Modise – Jabulani Ndlovu, Forget Ndlovu, and Sikhumbuzo Ndlovu, were arrested and charged with 55 counts related to 13 rhino poaching incidents near …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

Rhodes University a centre of inspiration in a community riddled with alcohol abuse: GRAHAMSTOWN — The town of Makhanda, formerly Grahamstown, is synonymous with music, arts and performances, with the national arts festival – marketed as Africa’s largest and most colourful cultural …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

Ramaphosa confirms that Alex Shutdown criminality and anarchy is an ANC campaign: It is convenient that Ramaphosa manufactures a sense of urgency in objectively well-governed DA governments but is nowhere to be found in corrupt and collapsed ANC municipalities like Emfuleni, …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

NRF, SARAO congratulates Event Horizon Telescope Consortium on First Image of Black Hole [press release]: This includes Professor Roger Deane from the Department of Physics at the University of Pretoria, as well as his post-doctoral fellow, Dr Iniyan Natarajan, from the Department of Physics and …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

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