Three months ago, Khoi and San chief Wayne Petersen was in trouble for allegedly invading land in the Kouga municipality, but last week the man who had planned to build a cultural village on the property was sworn in as a councillor.
Politics, livelihoods and the environment overlapped on Tuesday night at a meeting in the Feather Market Hall centred on a new Total offshore gas mining project application.
It was a festive weekend for members of the Khoi and San communities in the Bay as they celebrated their heritage during a series of events from Friday until Sunday.
The Nelson Mandela Bay metro has backed a bid by the Khoi and San community to take over the safeguarding of the dilapidated Beachview resort near Seaview.
Irate parents who shut down a Bethelsdorp primary school this week because of its deplorable state, marched to the police station on Friday to report a criminal complaint against basic education minister Angie Motshekga, saying she had violated their children’s rights to a good education.