It is about an hour’s brisk walk from Jeppe High School for Boys in the east of Johannesburg to the Kohinoor record store in the inner city.
More than 20 years ago, it was a trip Mxolisi Makhubo and his small group of hip-hop loving, self-proclaimed “outsiders” at their macho school made about once a month.
“We used to take our bus fare and save it up for a month to buy records with and we’d walk to town, which is where we’d catch minibus taxis back [home] to Soweto,” the now 37-year-old architect told me on a summer’s Sunday morning over a cup of tea at his renovated house on top of a ridge not that far from his old school.
THE STANDARD By
Mercy Asamba |
February 1st 2021 at 11:55:14 GMT +0300
Nairobi residents will from Wednesday experience an interruption of water supply, specifically those customers who are served by Kabete Water Works.
According to the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company, the interruption will start on February 3 at 6 am to February 4 at 6 am.
Areas to be affected include will be Riruta, Kawangware, Dagoretti Corner, Ngando, Kilimani, City mortuary, Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi hospital, Coptic hospital, State House, Department of Defense headquarters, Lavington, Kileleshwa, Kibera and Forces Memorial Hospital.
Others include: Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Golf Course Estate, Kenyatta Market, Karen, areas along Gatanga Road, Lang’ata Estates, Makadara, KWS, St Mary’s Hospital, Strathmore University, Wilson Airport, among others.
The interruption is occasioned by the shutdown of water pumps at Uthiru and Dagoretti to facilitate an upgrade.
The upgrade of the pumping stations situated at Kabete Water Works will see the two water pumps improved to pump additional 25,000 cubic metres of water to Karen, Riruta, Satellite, Kawangware and Uthiru areas among others.
The shutdown will see water supply to areas served by the two pumps go without water for between Wednesday, February 3, 2021 and Thursday, February 4, 2021.
Areas set to be affected by the water supply interruption include Riruta, Kawangware, Dagoretti Corner and Ngando; all along Naivasha Road.
Installations and estates along Ngong’ Road including Kilimani, City Mortuary, Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), Nairobi Hospital, Coptic Hospital, State House, Department of Defence Headquarters, Lavington, Kileleshwa and Kibera will also be affected.
By Maureen Ojinaka
Enugu, Jan. 25, 2021 The prices of foodstuff, particularly local rice and tomato have dropped significantly in major markets in Enugu Naija247news reports.
A survey conducted by Newsmen on Saturday showed that the prices of stoned, de-stoned local rice and tomatoes had dropped further.
A 50-kilogramme bag of de-stoned local rice now sells between N22, 000 and N23, 000 as against N26, 500 and N28, 000 sold in December.
Also, a 25 kilogramme bag is sold between N11, 000 and N12, 500 as against N12, 000 and N14,000 in December.
A rice dealer at Ogbete Main Market, Mr Dan Joseph, attributed the fall in price to availability of local rice in the market.
(FILES) This file photo taken on January 15, 2016 shows a trader sorting baskets of tomatoes at the Yankaba vegetables market in northern Nigerian city of Kano / AFP PHOTO / –
The Price of tomatoes has dropped significantly in major markets in Enugu metropolis, compared to what it was during the Yuletide.
A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) market survey on Thursday shows that a big basket of UTC specie of the commodity now sells for N7,500 as against N11, 500.
The small basket of the commodity goes for N5,000 as against N8,000. x
A tomato dealer at the Garki Market, Enugu, Mr Garba Adamu, attributed the development to the harvest season.