Deaf former SA swimming champion Mark Roach, 25, was not in the mood for hearing anything his hearing device was on the shore and his mind locked in on keeping a struggling newborn humpback whale calf from dashing itself to death on the rocks at Nahoon Corner on Saturday. In a shocking post on Sunday, the calf was seen dead on the beach, with Roach simply posting: “Didn’t make it.
Donald Card, prolific letter writer, politician, apartheid-era policeman and mayor, husband, father and great-grandfather has died at 93. His son, Robin, of White River, said Card finished his breakfast at the Kennersley Park retirement village on Tuesday, pushed in his chair, turned to friends and said: “Guys, I am not feeling well,” collapsed and died.
“The Swarm”, an eerie photograph of an Eastern Cape farmer walking through land dashed by hundreds of brown locusts, earned The Herald and Weekend Post photographer Werner Hills a top-four place in the feature photograph section of the Standard Bank-sponsored Sikuvile Awards in Johannesburg.
The SA Weather Service took no chances in announcing that another cut-off low pressure system is bringing rain, hail, snow and 8°C temperatures to the Eastern Cape.