Rhodes University kicked off its three-day autumn graduation season on Wednesday on a strong note by awarding an honorary doctorate of law to Chief Justice Raymond Zondo.
After 40 years in teaching, a career he loved, Roy Hewett turned 65, and retirement was not an option. He was forced to pack his briefcase, tidy his desk and wish pupils and colleagues at one of East London’s most successful schools, Hudson Park Park School, good bye. Not only was he forced to pack in his headmastership but he was left jobless.
East London-born music star Zahara has laid her soul and life bare on her reality TV show As I Rise. Once the darling of the SA music industry, the singer, whose real name is Bulelwa Mkutukana, has made headlines for her numerous personal and professional controversies. In the show that airs on SABC 1 on Saturday evenings, the multi-award winning star takes viewers through her life in Johannesburg, and also travels to her family home in Phumlani township, where she introduces her parents an.
Just a few weeks after the first-ever Eastern Cape telenovela Gqeberha The Empire made its debut on our screens, another call has been made to the province’s upcoming actors to audition for a new isiXhosa series, which will also be shot in the province. The new series is one of three titles to be shot in the Eastern Cape and benefit from the multimillion-rand fund set aside last year by the provincial sport, recreation, arts & culture department.