During a Mandela Day community kindness project by Niche Café, which gave soup, fruit, boiled eggs and chips to the boys of the Nemato Cricket Academy after they played at the cricket field near 43 Air School, Talk of the Town came across…
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…
It is an ongoing issue, the steps from the Kowie Flats to Southwell Road are littered with plastic, paper, wasted food and other types of household rubbish and, every week, it gets worse. The steps are used by many people every day as a…
After reading our front-page story in this week’s Talk of the Town (Outrage over mess left), a reader sent this picture of rubbish that has been dumped against the fence of the Royal Port Alfred Golf Course saying that this was totally…
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.…
This video was taken at the bottom of Wiersma Road in the industrial area of Port Alfred and shows that refuse has been accumulated at the corner. This might note a municipal problem, but the rubbish still needs to be taken away. It is…
Business owners in Port Alfred have expressed concern over a growing problem of rubbish being dumped along the gravel road leading to St Francis Health Centre from Bathurst Road (R67). Talk of the Town reported this in last week’s edition…
The attached video gives a very brief explanation as to what the Bathurst Dump looks like. However, the dump actually extends from the intersection of the R67 and Kings Road, opposite the road to the Showgrounds and continues down Kings…
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…
There must be a sustainable soluion too the problem of houseghold refuse being strewn all over the steps leading from Stocks Avenue to Southwell Road which are, once again, in a terrible mess. This is not good from a health perspective…
Walking along the sand, from Richards Bay to Port Nolloth, Stephan Graunke is cleaning up the beaches and would like people to join him and assist in making things a little better for everyone. “My walk has not entirely inspired people…
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?…
Once again we are publishing photographs of the steps that lead from Stocks Avenue to Southwell Road (R72). It seems that residents think this area is an extension of the Port Alfred dumpsite, the number of bags (household and garden…
Port Alfred pensioner Charles Randall has taken it on himself to clear up the domestic refuse dumped at the Setter Church cemetery on the East Bank, but wishes that people would show some respect and get rid of their rubbish through the…
A resident who has taken on the responsibility of attempting to keep the Settlers Cemetery at the top of Bathurst Road (R67) clean and litter-free pointed out that residents appear to be dumping their domestic and garden refuse there.…
