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Makhanda News: Welcome rain for PE – catchment areas need more

28 May 2019 By Port Elizabethan

Welcome rain for PE – catchment areas need more: Inland, Makhanda and Cradock each received 10 mm and Graaff-Reinet and Addo both measured 19 mm. Looking ahead, Sampson said a couple of drops here and there can be expected toward the weekend but …
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.

Makhanda Mass Choir performed for the President: The Rhodes University Community Engagement Division has launched Engagement in Action, a new podcast which aims to bring to life some of the many ways in which the University interacts with …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

ANC Western Cape reacts to the IEC Results: Gift of the Givers to be partly compensated for work in Makhanda For months the NGO helped the town’s municipality with drought-relief efforts. Batohi: Problems at NPA worse than I expected Batohi …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

Polling underway in Makhanda: In Makhanda, formerly Grahamstown, hundreds of residents started queuing at the Extension 9 Hall in Joza township early on Wednesday morning. First-time voter Aviwe Ndawuni, 20, said she was expecting …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

7 acts to enthral you at the 2019 Standard Bank Jazz Festival: Cape Town – The Standard Bank Jazz Festival in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown) is one of the few in the country that has always encouraged the idea of collaborations giving local artists a platform to …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

A town in South Africa reflects nation’s angst, 25 years after the end of apartheid: It is just after 9:30 a.m., and a throng of onlookers stands along Dr. Jacob Zuma Drive in Makhanda, a small city in southern South Africa, holding their shirts over their noses. They watch as a …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

Poverty, corruption mean South Africans still not free: president: MAKHANDA, South Africa (AFP) — A quarter of a century after the end of the apartheid in South Africa many people remain trapped in poverty, in part because of rampant corruption, President Cyril …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

Faeces spread in president’s path in Makhanda: Protestors led by the Unemployed People’s Movement (UPM) barricaded Dr Jacob Zuma Drive in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown) during the early hours of Saturday in anticipation of the President Cyril …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

Faeces spread in president’s path: Protesters lead by the Unemployed People’s Movement (UPM) barricaded Dr Jacob Zuma Drive in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown) during the early hours of Saturday, in anticipation of the President Cyril …
Source: “Makhanda” – BingNews.

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