An intermittent network supply in Port St Johns has panicked residents and businesspeople who say they are unable to contact family, are losing business and fear being unable to get help during a medical emergency.
Surfer Johnny Bosazza is an uncommon character. I know personalities are as unique as snowflakes and each of us is as individual as our fingerprints, but the good Lord sure broke the mould when he made Johnny. Building contractor, entrepreneur, surfer, fisherman, outdoorsman and adventurer, Johnny hails from Chintsa East, where he owns and operates Cintsa Thatching and Roofing.
After a two-day blockade of Port St Johns by protesters, police on Thursday reopened the roads leading to the coastal town where hospitals, schools, government offices and businesses were all but shut down while the town was cut off from the outside world. Police said protesters had commandeered eight trucks and “forced drivers to jackknife their trucks on the roads” including the R61 between Mthatha and Port St Johns and several routes to Lusikisiki.
Co-operative governance MEC Zolile Williams has called for urgent police intervention after a spate of attacks on councillors in the province, with the latest incident on Sunday leaving a Port St Johns councillor’s nephew wounded. Williams said his proposed meeting with provincial police commissioner Lt-Gen Nomthetheleli Mene this week would discuss a “responsive security plan to deal with this growing trend of violence against elected public officials at local government level, especi.