If BCM's town planning unit does not sharpen up, construction companies will migrate to municipalities that don’t take two years to process an application.
The forgotten roads between East London and its surrounding towns and coastal villages have deteriorated into hazardous daily commutes for residents, whose attempts to patch up their disintegrating routes is a never-ending nightmare. Buffalo Pass was the symbolic launching pad of the national pothole repair operation Vala Zonke.
Edging to the side of the road to avoid one of numerous potholes along the MR500 road to Kaysers Beach early on Monday, a Queen Bee Honeysucker sewage truck slipped into the culvert and overturned. An eyewitness said the black-and-white striped vehicle contained two occupants, one of whom was slightly hurt.
In an overwhelming society, the sardine run can be a place of quiet contemplation and solitude.As the shoals moved up the coast last week, national debate and protest raged in the public domain about Eskom, Karpowership, gas and oil exploration rights, cholera, dead children and heinous corruption in Hammanskraal, and here, dire warnings about the potential for this killer “Third World” disease in Makhanda.
Leighandre Jegels World karate, continental and SA boxing female champion Leighandre Jegels was shot and killed on Friday, allegedly by her police officer boyfriend, whom she had…