This year the Local Hero gala event was a night of rose gold glamour in honour of 12 winners whose work helping their communities stood out from more than 50 nominees. In the first in-person event since 2019, the Daily Dispatch and Johnson & Johnson Local Heroes awarded the selected finalists with R20,000 and a professionally shot video of their projects.
The Makhanda high court has set aside Shell’s oil and gas exploration right which gave the multinational company licence to seismically blast the ecologically sensitive Wild Coast.Environmental groups and Wild Coast communities which took on the oil and gas multinational are already celebrating their victory.In That Weekend Feeling with Daron Mann this week, we speak to Gary Koekemoer of the Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa and Dean Knox of Save The Wild Coast for their reaction to the high court ruling.
With major winds and high seas dumping trash along our coastline, residents and businesses have banded together to support multiple cleanup initiatives on Nahoon beach, including a widespread cleanup on Saturday.
So often I come back to Shaun Thomson’s beautiful quote: “Who is the best surfer in the world? the guy who is having the most fun”. I am sure he means girl as well.
There was a stench of disappointment after Buffalo City Metro announced on social media that the Bonza Bay and Nahoon beaches would be closed due to unsafe water testing results yesterday. Residents were outraged after BCM posted a message on its Facebook page cautioning beachgoers from swimming in contaminated water.