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The Port Alfred Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association (PARRA) has been impressed with the work of Ndlambe Municiipality’s cleansing department staff to keep the town and the beaches clean. One of that department’s staff members in…
Talk of the Town dropped by on rehearsals for Sha-Loui Dance School’s first show of the year this week. On Thursday May 18, dancers were putting in the final touches to their performances. The dance school’s show will be focused on…
The Royal Port Alfred Golf Club room was decorated with a huge, colourful collection of knitted and crocheted beanies, booties, jerseys, bed socks, fingerless mittens, gloves, baby toys, jerseys and blankets from the Kowie Wool Warriors…
Mayor Khululwa Ncamiso continued the Imbizo roadshow at a packed Titi Jonas Hall in Thornhill for ward 6 residents on Tuesday, May 2. The mayoral roadshow focuses on the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) budget for the year 2023/2024.…
Koos van Rensburg was inducted as the new chairman of Port Alfred’s branch of the South African Air Force Association (SAAFA) at the Hibiscus Room Restaurant in Settler’s Park Village on Monday, May 8. The organisation is a democratic,…
Colonialism and apartheid left South Africans alienated, socially disoriented and unable to accept responsibility for what happened in the past. This was one of the insights shared during a panel discussion on the speakers programme at…
Port Alfred’s KFC branch was robbed at gunpoint on Sunday night, May 14. South African Police Service spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu said no one was injured during the robbery and the suspects had fled on foot. “It is alleged that…
The Pig and Whistle lounge was packed with booklovers during the lively speaker programme which headlined at the 18th annual Bathurst Book Fair on Sunday, April 30. In the morning schedule, author and photojournalist Marion Whitehead…
SASSA grant recipients can still collect their grants at the Port Alfred post office. That’s according to South African Post Office (SAPO) spokesperson Suzie Khumalo. She was responding to a query from Talk of The Town following a tipoff…
Action SA’s Ndlambe branch, together with 16 residents, spent Friday, April 28 cleaning up an abandoned Department of Public Works property. iHire generously sponsored power tools for the cleanup campaign, which was launched by ActionSA…
In the April 13 edition, TOTT reported on the caring Port Alfred community coming together to rally behind a crowd funding initiative for Laurette Fourie who was involved in a horrific head-on collision on the R72 driving down the hill on…
It’s (almost) never too young for books and reading, says educationist. Did you know that you can start reading to your child as young as six months? That’s one of the insights Talk of the Town gained at the Bathurst Book Fair on Sunday,…
Staff and school governing body members of Kuyasa Combined School have visited the family of a Grade 7 pupil who is believed to have taken his own life on the last weekend of April. South African Police Service spokesperson Colonel…
The Democratic Alliance’s (DA) Jane Cowley was the guest speaker at a packed Kowie PROBUS club AGM at the River & Ski Boat Club on Tuesday, April 11. Her talk was titled The politics of politics in the 21st century. In her early life,…
Ndlambe Municipality mayor, Khululwa Ncamiso has started her Mayoral Imbizo roadshow that focuses on Integrated Development Plan (IDP) budget for the year 2023/2024 while also highlighting the progress made since last year’s Imbizo. This…
