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Thokozani MTIKI

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LEADERSHIP: Eastern Cape ActionSA leader Athol Trollip spoke about his own political journey when he introduced the ActionSA political party to Port Alfred at the Marina Clubhouse this week. Picture: TK MTIKI

Time to quit ‘enduring’ the status quo

Trollip says 30 million disillusioned, abstaining eligible or registered voters must ‘come to party’ Eastern Cape ActionSA Provincial leader Athol Trollip introduced the party to Ndlambe residents during a public meeting at the Marina…

MOTHER OF ALL EVENTS: Ecawa Music Festival hosted by Lutifusion pty Ltd on December 24 created 70 temporary jobs and boosted local accommodation establishments according to event organiser Siyabulela Madyo Picture: SUPPLIED

Music Festival boosts local businesses’ coffers

With ticket sales just under 8000 and an enthusiastic crowd enjoying performances by 11 artists and 12 DJs, organiser of the Ecawa Music Festival, Siyabulela Madyo, hailed the annual event a resounding success. Adding to its success, he…

WATER HARDSHIP: Nemato resident Loyiso Vice is one of the residents who shared his story of spending the festive season without water. Picture: SUPPLIED

Dry season for Port Alfred residents

After intermittent, or no supply, high lying areas in Port Alfred are at last starting to receive water through the municipal supply, after the Rosehill pumps were switched on again at the end of January. For weeks, rain water tanks were…

WORKING HANDS: Damant Lodge resident Glenda Kent is one of the knitting group members who asks for wool donation with an aim to continue knitting for the needy people of Ndlambe Picture: TK MTIKI

Knitting superheroes need wool to help needy

Just before Winter 2022 stepped into the room, the superknitters of Damant Lodge in Port Alfred stepped up and came to the defence of Ndlambe’s needy with bed socks, blankets and beanies. Now Damant Lodge’s knitting superheroes want to do…

CELEBRATORY MOMENT: Bathurst Police Station police members in partnership with Community Policing Forum and Ndlambe Municipality Speaker Andile Marasi held a braai at the Krantz recently to celebrate their partnerships to fight crime in Bathurst Picture: Supplied

SAPS, CPF celebrate partnership against crime

Bathurst Police Station management together with their people in blue, the Community Policing Forum (CPF) and Ndlambe Municipality Speaker Andile Marasi had a braai on December 28 at the Krantz celebrating their partnership against crime…

ANTICRIME GROUP: Masiphathisane Community Safety Group members patrolling Nemato Township to town display some of the weapons they have confiscated from people during their night patrols. Pangas, axes, swords and knives are part of this dangerous collection. From left are Masiphathisane members, Sisipho Lewu, Funisile Donono, Siyamthanda Gagayi and Ayanda Zoli. Picture: TK MTIKI

Anti-crime group appeals for public support

Anti Crime group Masiphathisane Community Safety Group patrolling Nemato Township and the town at night is appealing for the donation of branded reflectors and torches to make their work easier. Masiphathisane Community Safety Group have…

Two die in R72 crash

Two people died in a head-on collision on the R72 near Birha bridge, east of Port Alfred in the early hours of Thursday 8 December. They were among three people who died in two separate incidents this morning. Eastern Cape Department of…

RDPS: Ndlovini residents Rhadebe Vellem and Nonkosazana Tyali completed their own their RDP homes after progress stalled at the roofing stage Picture: TK MTIKI

Two owners ask questions as their Project 120 homes remain unfinished

Joy and relief has turned to frustration for RDP housing beneficiaries Rhadebe Vellem and Nonkosazana Tyali after progress on their RDP houses in Ndlovini, Port Alfred, remained stalled for three years. They say the municipality promised…

CHAMPIONS: Barcelona Masters of Gqeberha won a charity football tournament on Saturday. The proceeds were used to donate groceries and school uniforms to a family in Nemato whose home was destroyed by a fire. Their win saw them walking way with R6000 plus 20 gold medals Picture: Supplied

Soccer legends play from the heart

The Port Alfred Masters football team, whose players are 35 and older, hosted a charity tournament at Gidana Stadium in Ndlovini on Saturday. From the proceeds, they made a donation to a Nemato family who recently lost everything in a…

RAISING AWARENESS: Cancer survivors, health staff workers, community members including Ndlambe Mayor Khuluwa Ncamiso braved the cold weather recently for a Breast Cancer Health Walk from Nomzamo Secondary School to Titi Jonas marking cancer awareness month Picture: TK MTIKI

Walkers brave rain for cancer awareness

On the basis that prevention is better than cure, cancer survivors, health workers, community members and Ndlambe Mayor Khululwa Ncamiso braved the cold weather recently for a Breast Cancer Health Walk. Wearing T-shirts branded ‘We are in…

RAISING AWARENESS: Dr Judy Mann (right) posing with her mother, Settlers Park Retirement Village resident Rosemary Lang. Mann delivered presentation on threats faced by African Penguin in an ‘African Penguin Awareness Day’ which is observed on the second Saturday of October held at Settlers Park on Saturday October 8 Picture: TK MTIKI

Settlers Park learns about plight of African Penguins

Two Ocean Aquarium Foundation representative Dr Judy Mann spoke to residents of Settlers Park Retirement Village on threats faced by African Penguins on African Penguin Awareness Day recently. The awareness day is held on the second…

MISSING PERSONS: Alexandria Police have asked for the community’s help in finding a mother and her two young children. Desire Amelia Hayes and her two children, Melvin Adamson and Amelia Adamson, have been reported missing since Friday 28 October 2022. Picture supplied

Alexandria police seek missing family

Alexandria police are appealing for the public to assist in finding a mother and her two young children who went missing on Friday 28 October 2022. The family of Desire Amelia Hayes (42) and her two children Melvin Adamson (3) and Amelia…

A TRENCH: After a weeks-long delay due to a broken TLB (digger), Ndlambe Municipality has dug burial trenches for the Port Alfred SPCA. Picture: TK MTIKI

Relief as dead animals buried

The Port Alfred SPCA and neighbouring Station Hill residents are breathing a sigh of relief following Ndlambe Municipality’s intervention to dig burial trenches for dead animals. Trenches just outside the perimeter of the SPCA property…

Pineapple pulls the crowds

The 2022 Pineapple Run, themed ‘Smash the Pineapple’ on Saturday October 1 was a huge success, attracting runners from as far as Gqeberha (PE), East London and Makhanda. The 27km walkers stepped out from the Big Pineapple in Bathurst at…

CHEQUE HANDOVER: Rotary Port Alfred President Petro Horner with SPCA administrator Forbes Coutts at the Royal Marina Port Alfred. Rotary Port Alfred recently donated R12 000 to the Port Alfred SPCA. Picture: TK MTIKI

Rotary lifeline for SPCA

Unless the Port Alfred SPCA receives substantial financial support from the community, it will have to close its doors in six months. That was the shocking reality revealed by the organisation’s administrator Forbes Coutts recently, as…