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Hold my hand launches Moments That Matter competition

Celebrating connections that shape lives Small moments of connection can have a lasting impact on a child’s life. Whether it’s a parent reading with their child, a teacher offering encouragement, a sibling providing support, or a…

Musicians young and ‘older’ deliver spectacular night

It’s been a rare thing for Makhanda to hear a live orchestra outside of the National Arts Festival and last weekend the Makana Community Orchestra performed for the home crowd in their fourth performance of the year: Symphony Spectacular…

CRICKET FEVER: South Africans love their cricket. Siphe Mzaidume is holding a cricket clinic this weekend to help the youth develop skills

Cricket clinic at the Country Club this weekend

Calling on all youth interested in learning more about the game of cricket. Join Siphe Mzaidume at the Port Alfred Country Club this Saturday or Sunday to hone your skills. Mzaidume has taken the knowledge he has gained in playing in…

LOVING THE GAME: The players from Classic FC were declared the winners of the Bathurst Sports Festival U13 soccer competition and were overjoyed with the result

Bathurst Sports Festival produces good result

A soccer tournament for U13 and U15 players, named The Bathurst Sport Festival 2021, was held at Nolukhanyo Township over the weekend of March 13 and 14. A total of nine teams from each division competed for the top prize. “There were top…

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: The Young Pirates Football Club needs your help for their U13 and U15 football teams

Help them to help themselves

A new football club for the youth began in Port Alfred in June last year in the hope of finding and developing talent. However, Covid pandemic has prevented sportspeople from participating in team sports and the club, Young Pirates, has…

President Cyril Ramaphosa praised young South Africans who are coming up with homegrown solutions ‘to the contemporary challenges we face’.Image: FINANCIAL MAIL

President pleased youth have seized opportunity provided by Covid-19 pandemic to create own incomes

President Cyril Ramaphosa has praised young entrepreneurs who have seized opportunities that contribute to the economy and alleviation of poverty during the Covid-19 pandemic. “I am very pleased at the combination of foresight, creativity…

Ramaphosa calls on youth to lead post Covid-19 recovery

President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on young South Africans to lead the road to recovery after Covid-19. “I am throwing a challenge to young people to begin to see that post Covid-19 is a new platform. We need to set up different ways of…

TALKING THE WORD: John Amoah, pastor of Mdantsane Community Church and principal of Inkwenkwezi High School, had the audience at the Christian Men’s Association breakfast clapping their hands nonstop to his testimony about how God saved his life Picture: Ntombi Msutu

Talk encapsulates fundamental values of Christianity

Tash’s Craft Bar had a full house with interest in hearing the story of Ghanaian born Pastor John Amoah at the Christian Men’s Association breakfast last Saturday. Amoah, has been ministering in East London since 1984, and has a church in…

ATTENTIVELY LISTENING: Young people of Ndlambe gathered in Jauka Hall Tuesday evening for the launch of #Kwanele which means enough to hear for themselves what the movement has to offer Picture: TK Mtiki

Movement aims to help the youth of Ndlambe

The #Kwanele movement, which means “enough”, had an official launch at Jauka Hall on Tuesday, with young people braving the cold, wet weather and came to listen what the movement had to offer them as it is aimed to help them in the near…