Port Alfred residents and commuters through town may have noticed a flurry of cleaning activity around the Duck Pond adjacent to Southwell Road this week. Ndlambe Municipality has responded to Talk of the Town’s photos, video and queries…
In a follow up to an issue Talk of the Town reported on two weeks ago, we went to look at the Port Alfred Duck Pond adjacent to the Anchorage Mall on Sunday, which had been littered with filth for an undetermined period, including used…
Updated with response from ANC Youth League below: Bushman’s River Mouth resident Ference Toth provided this video of the aftermath of an ANC Youth League party at the picnic spot in the coastal village last weekend. He said residents…
There is a growing problem in the area of refuse that is apparently dumped at the side of roads. This was a photograph of rubbish bags torn open on Southwell Road, Port Alfred, on Monday morning. Household refuse litters the roadside.…
Shards of broken glass lie scattered in the sand over a large portion of Port Alfred’s West Beach between the parking lot and the pier – remnants of the New Year revelry on the beach a month ago. There is a risk to cutting your feet if…
It was not planned, but was a timely convergence of ideas, that the plastic waste collection and recycling project in Boknes was launched at the same time we asked our recent Facebook question – if readers feel enough is being done to…
Again, the steps that connect Stocks Avenue and Southwell Road are covered with refuse. Surely this is not what we want our visitors (thousands of whom will come to town for the Bathurst Show and, later, the Amanzi Challenge) to see?…
The Port Alfred Lions Club joined forces with the Port Alfred Ski-boat Club and other members of the public to conduct what has become a quarterly river clean-up of the Kowie River. They set out in three barges on Saturday and working…
The stairs leading from the corner of Stocks Avenue to Southwell Road (R72) seem to be a regular dumping ground for household refuse. It is unclear where this refuse comes from or who has scattered it about but requires someone to pick it…
When colleague Adele Steck first touted the idea of a clean-up around the Port Alfred Duck Pond, I admit I was sceptical. The idea originated when, during a Tittle Tattle Live broadcast at the robots, I noted the amount of litter on the…
