Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: PE historic icons: The Donkin Lighthouse (actually called The Hill Lighthouse built in 1861) and the Pyramid (actually called the Donkin Memorial built in 1820), two of Port Elizabeth's most iconic historic landmarks. Source: Port Elizabeth Daily Photo. Click HERE to submit your blog to be part of this daily feature. CLICK HERE to get a daily digest of PE Goodness straight into your inbox with the MyPE Monday to Friday … [Read more...] about PE historic icons – Featured Blog
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J-Bay in the news: Jordy Smith lands historic perfect-20 heat total at J-Bay
Jordy Smith lands historic perfect-20 heat total at J-Bay: South Africa’s Jordy Smith created history by recording the first perfect 20-point heat total at Jeffreys Bay and competition ran through Round 3 and the opening two heats of Round 4 before being called off when a shark was sighted breaching about 100m ... Source: "Jeffreys Bay" - BingNews. World Surf League title race sharpens as J-Bay Open action continues: Portuguese rookie Frederico Morais beat three-time world champion Fanning … [Read more...] about J-Bay in the news: Jordy Smith lands historic perfect-20 heat total at J-Bay
New Look and New Programs for America’s Historic Library in Soweto
New Look and New Programs for America’s Historic Library in Soweto: On April 20, U.S. Consul General Christopher Rowan, of the U.S. Consulate General in Johannesburg, hosted a reception to officially re-open the Consulate’s Rosa Parks Library & Innovation Studio in Soweto following a nearly four-month refurbishment project. At the reception, the Consul General reflected on the library’s more than 40 years of impact on Soweto’s community and reaffirmed the United States … [Read more...] about New Look and New Programs for America’s Historic Library in Soweto
Salem’s historic land redistribution
Visit and explore Salem, Eastern Cape accommodation choices. Click here to submit your favourite Eastern Cape Videos. A MyPE Salem, Eastern Cape selected video for you: A landmark court ruling on land redistribution could redefine the face of land-claims in South Africa. The Salem land-claim is the largest such case settled in South Africa to date. By this - a large part of the historic settler town in the Eastern Cape will be returned to the descendants of the … [Read more...] about Salem’s historic land redistribution
Historic images of Port Elizabeth
These images come to you courtesy of today's version of the ancient chain letter - remember those? Chain letters were considered evil in the days when we communicated via letters and envelopes with stamps on - nowadays we have spam and the dreaded forward button to thank for instant clutter.... Anyway - Dennis forwarded this to Neville who forwarded this to Warwick who added captions and forwarded this to Alan who is now publishing it for YOU! Short History of St … [Read more...] about Historic images of Port Elizabeth
