ATKV’s executive chief of culture, Gerrie Lemmer, said ATKV has been presenting the Rieldans competition since 2006, but that it took a break during the pandemic. The reason for the ATKV’s pivotal role in promoting one of South Africa’s oldest dance styles, Lemmer said, was to ensure that the r.
In the latest round of by-elections the ANC failed to win back Newcastle, lost a ward in Mtubatuba to the IFP and lost control of Cederberg. However, it went up percentage wise in every by-election on Wednesday night. Despite short-term setbacks, there were some silver linings for the ruling pa.
Next to an ancient and now deceased gum tree on a lonely road over the Pakhuis Pass in the Cederberg is a Boer War grave beside which a sister mourned her brother for 30 years without knowing it was empty.