Groovy musical comedy group Centrestage will be celebrating its 25th birthday with a new show The Songs which ROCKED our World at the Guild Theatre from November 14 to16. After a two-year hiatus, the troupe of eight musicians are returning to East London as part of the Super Lekker Summer Tour after sold-out shows on their home turf, Gqeberha, and they’ll be bringing two drum sets as part of the live experience.
Buffalo City Metro launched its first road safety campaign in preparation for the festive season in partnership with SA Breweries in a roadblock in Qonce on Friday morning. Also launched were a new state-of-the-art mobile alcohol testing centre and an additional mobile vehicle testing station in an effort to snag traffic offenders.
The Department of Education has promised that over 1.2 million textbooks and learning materials costing R507 million will be distributed to more than 5,000 schools before November 30 for the 2023 school year.
This year the Local Hero gala event was a night of rose gold glamour in honour of 12 winners whose work helping their communities stood out from more than 50 nominees. In the first in-person event since 2019, the Daily Dispatch and Johnson & Johnson Local Heroes awarded the selected finalists with R20,000 and a professionally shot video of their projects.