A likelihood that he will interfere with state witnesses and evade his trial saw a magistrate deny the bail application of murder accused Arnold Terblanche.
Sitting in East London where the province’s top achievers were announced on Friday afternoon, Collegiate Girls’ High School matriculant Frances Brummer became increasingly nervous as the countdown to the number one spot continued.
Against all odds the Eastern Cape’s matric class of 2021 increased the province’s overall pass rate by almost five percentage points from 68.1% in 2020 to 73% last year.
The school bells rang in a tough start to the academic year for many Nelson Mandela Bay pupils who returned to unsafe classrooms and a lack of basic supplies on Wednesday.
It was a rough start at many Nelson Mandela Bay schools when the bells rang on Wednesday morning. While getting pupils to their classrooms timeously due to Covid-19 screening took some doing, some schools were faced with the harsh reality of not having all their resources, like stationery and textbooks, on the first day.