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Three children from Motherwell, in Gqeberha, died allegedly after eating noodles purchased at a local spaza shop. The police are investigating the cause of death of the children aged 11, nine and four months old. Police spokesperson Col…
In recent months Komani residents have been frustrated by the fire department’s tardy response to emergency calls. Residents have reported the truck arriving hours after being called and at times without bringing water. It seems unlikely…
The long-awaited Ezibeleni Mall may soon be realised as construction is due to start at the end of this month. The mall has been in the pipeline for nearly 20-years, suffering setbacks and never getting off the ground. Ian van Dyk, who…
Komani Veterans Football Club will be hosting its annual charity Cup tomorrow. Ten teams from across the Eastern Cape will be in town to compete for a cool R10 000 first-place prize. Local business Russel and Son donated Kit & R5000…
Ezibeleni YouTubers are using new media to tell the stories of young people making moves in their community. Photo Scamto, the brainchild of photographer Olwethu Maplanka and local musician Khulasande Mfengu, is a fresh new documentary…
After years fighting to get citizenship for her son, Bianca Bless will now take to the stage for the final act of an 11-year tragedy, a final au revoir between parent and child. Bless, an unemployed opera singer will have a fundraiser…
In 2019 the South African netball team made it to the quarter-finals of the Netball World Cup, their best return since 1995 when they lost the final to Australia. One of the standout performances in the tournament for SA was from Aliwal…
Pop-up vaccine sites are hitting the mark as vax hesitant people are stepping up to get their jabs. The sites are part of the Enoch Mgijima health sub-district vaccination rollout strategy to get the youth jabbed. Sifiso Mohale, who has…
The Queenstown Round Table No 16 recently organised a non-perishable food drive to aid the Azariah Outreach Centre and Deborah Arise soup kitchen. The drives, sponsored by various businesses and individuals around Komani, are to help…
The message was clear – gender-based violence (GBV) must come to an end. In an initiative to celebrate the end of Women’s Month, officers and staff from the Mlungisi police station went out in a motorcade load-hailing the anti-GBV…
Irate Mlungisi informal settlement residents had to march to the town hall yet again after a reply to a memorandum were not forthcoming from the Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality (EMLM). The residents had previously marched on the town…
Mlungisi Gegana is a name that needs no introduction. Among Stompi Mavi, Margaret Mcinganga and Jordan Bangazi his name sits comfortably and he can be regarded as another legend from the ‘little jazz town’. Born in 1961, he could not have…
After years of appearing in the grandest auditoriums and enthralling audiences around the world, two local songbirds have returned home to lead a tour by the Cape Town Opera House for the local rendition of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème.…
Amavarara FC has a new lease on life and are ready to challenge for the ABC Motsepe League title. The club is no longer for and the roster of players that left en-masse earlier this year are set to make a comeback boosted by other new and…
Next week the Queenstown Fly Fishing Club will host its annual gathering when enthusiasts from around the country come into town and compete for the biggest catch. The event is now held in the first week of September after the precedent…
