Three Blue Crane Route municipal towns in the Karoo are battling a deluge of sewage leaks, with the smell affecting critical service centres such as clinics.
To get to Samara head north from Gqeberha on the R75. Ten minutes past Kariega and you’re into the Karoo and the vervet monkeys will be there on the side of the road to welcome you.
Wilderness physiotherapist Sineke Schmidt was up early preparing for a full programme of Women’s Day activities with her friends when she got a devastating phone call her daughter, Marolien, had been murdered in her home in Gqeberha.
As messages of condolence streamed in for a much-loved Gqeberha physiotherapist, Richmond Hill residents described how they tried in vain to save Marolien Schmidt after she was stabbed by an intruder in the early hours of Women’s Day.