Widespread complaints by BCM sport enthusiasts who were either barred from using East London’s Absa and Jan Smuts Stadiums, or were charged exorbitant fees to do so, should soon be a thing of the past. The metro has finally signed a 20-year lease agreement with Chippa Training Academy just over two years after the council approved the long-term leasing of the two stadiums, which are adjacent to each other, to Chippa United football club boss Siviwe “Chippa” Mpengesi.
EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu has conceded the party is “still very far from being an ideal organisation” in the Eastern Cape Shivambu gave a keynote address at the opening of the third provincial people’s assembly currently underway at the Absa Stadium in East London “We have an obligation at all times as revolutionaries …to claim no easy victories and tell no lies.
A former car guard is bringing Durban flavour to the Gonubie beachfront, after local surfers and community members rallied together to kick-start Jay’s Hotspot. Jayanthran “Jay” Govender, 49, from Durban, came to East London with friends to sell bedding but was left abandoned in Quigney where he was robbed of his possessions in January.