The Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber hosted religious leaders from various churches in the city at the weekend to find ways to work collectively as a wider and inclusive civil society in addressing some of the challenges facing the city’s economy and communities.
A Gqeberha drummer has his sight set on becoming a global hit by playing in the same league as some of the world’s icons when he makes good on a once-in-a-lifetime music scholarship in the US.
Perched on a verdant hill, overlooking an evergreen lake, one couldn’t ask for a better setting for a residential school. But the pandemic forced the sprawling campus of Heritage Girls School, around 20 kilometres north of Udaipur, Rajasthan, to remain shuttered for the most part of last year.
Although students from across the country attended their online classes, almost every day, from the comfort of their homes, life was simply not the same. However, there was much rejoicing among the students when the school administration first broached the topic of reopening the institution with the parents, sometime in December last year.