With just over three weeks to go, Jeffreys Bay is buzzing with Winterfest fever as the usually quiet town gears itself for one of the best and biggest winter festivals in the country. The Corona Open JBay, the anchor event of the JBay Winterfest and the only World Surf League Championship Tour event in the […]
A local butchery was ravaged by fire in Jeffreys Bay yesterday morning. The fire began around 6 am in the Beesland Slaghuis and a security company reported the crises to the local fire department. “Our fire department was on the scene in less than fifteen minutes, with personnel and vehicles from both Jeffreys Bay and […]
About 17 000 ha of veld, plantation and farm land in the Kouga area has been destroyed by the fire that started burning in the Longmore area on 7 June. This is only within Kouga’s area of jurisdiction and does not include damage on Nelson Mandela Bay’s side. Sanral has been replacing fire-damaged barriers along […]
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane: Reuters/Mike Hutchings South Africa’s Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, has ignited a flaring grass fire with recommendations around a R1.2bn bailout paid to a local bank between 1986 and 1995. Known as the “Bankorp/Absa lifeboat”, the payment has been a bone of deep contention, with investigations and reports stretching back to the […]
Cricket SA has announced the owners for the 8 teams who will participate in the T20 Global League due to take place in South Africa in November and December. Nelson Mandela Bay and St George’s Park will play host to franchise owner Ajay Sethi of Channel 2 who will base his team at the iconic […]
There have been some flare-ups in Kouga, however, the worst fire is now on the eastern side of the Van Stadens gorge. SANDF helicopters will be fighting the blaze today, while around 30 firefighters are on the ground, o prevent the fire spreading to the Blue Horizon Bay area. There were flare-ups at Longmore but […]
St Francis Bay photographer Clive Wright captured this image of a water weir near Swellendam in the Western Cape. A weir is a barrier across the horizontal width of a river that alters the flow characteristics of the water and usually results in a change in the vertical height of the river level. There are […]
May 2017 was the second warmest May in 137 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. Last month was 0.88 degrees Celsius warmer than the mean May temperature from 1951-1980. The two top May temperature anomalies have […]
Day-old bull calves are sold dirt cheap or given by farmers to informal settlement residents – contributing to the ever-increasing stray animal problem in the Jeffreys Bay area. According to an irate eye-witness, some local dairy farmers sell these gorgeous doe-eyed male calves – deemed impractical and uneconomical – for between R40 and R80 to […]
The release of the Mining Charter is proof that the South African government does not care about long-term and sustainable transformation in the mining sector. In presenting his new rules, which amount to a massive giveaway of mine value to the ANC’s favoured groups, Minister Zwane has opened the doors to more crony enrichment. Share […]
