Monday 9th December
St Francis & Kouga News
Load Shedding Today – Stage 2 – 19:00 – 21:30
Your 2019 St Francis Sporting Calendar – The 13th annual St Francis Sport Summer Series will kick off on Monday 16 December 2019 with a canal swim, and ends on the 31st of December with the annual MTB Challenge.
End of Year Bridge Celebration – The final competition of the year for the St Francis Bay Bridge Club took place at the St Francis Links on Friday 6 December
Off to the Presidents Cup – Ernie, here I come! – It’s our year to win! Ernie vs Tiger, again!
Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape & Southern Coast
‘Way beyond the urgency and emergency phase’, Gift of the Givers ‘battle’ with worsening Eastern Cape drought – Humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers says it is struggling to keep up with the impact of the drought in the Eastern Cape.
Patrons shine light on lacklustre Luminosity market – The much-discussed Luminosity Christmas Market at Victoria Park this weekend failed to shoot the lights out for many angry patrons who said the event was a rip-off.
NSRI
NSRI Safety Appeal and Incidents this week – NSRI continue to appeal to the public to only swim at beaches protected by lifeguards and only swim during the lifeguard beach stand-by times.
Surfing
Holding Period for 2019 Billabong Pipe Masters Opens Today, – The holding period for the 2019 Billabong Pipe Masters in Memory of Andy Irons, the final stop on the World Surf League (WSL) Men’s Championship Tour (CT), officially opened yesterday
National & African News
WATCH: South Africa’s Zozibini Tunzi wins Miss Universe 2019 – She was crowned during the prestigious ceremony in Atlanta in the United States.
SOE’s
Twelve years of load shedding – written, starring & directed by the ANC – The ANC will no doubt deny that it can be held responsible for load shedding and it will explain how mistakes were made.
SA’s state pension fund draws line in the sand on Eskom bailout – The Government Employees Pension Fund’s principal executive officer, Abel Sithole, said it will only consider recapitalising debt-laden Eskom if the government puts in place good terms and conditions.
Eskom wants R27bn clawback from consumers – It’s asking for more from tariffs to cover the under-recovery of its actual costs in 2018/19, while subjecting consumers to crippling load shedding.
#ZondoCommission
From Agrizzi ‘spilling the beans’ to Zuma’s spy claims: Review of Zondo Commission – The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into allegations of State Capture, really came alive in 2019,
Politics
Infighting shows up the ANC for what it now really is – What is disturbing for the president and his supporters is that some of his erstwhile Nasrec allies have defected to the ‘other side’.
EFF in factional battles ahead of conference – The EFF is heading to Nasrec, a suburb of Johannesburg, to decide its future leadership.
‘It has enhanced my political career’: Malema relishes court cases piled against him – EFF leader says his trials are a mobilisation platform and claims Ramaphosa’s presidency has resulted in ‘the arrogance of white people coming back’
International
White Island: tourists injured during New Zealand volcano eruption – Level four alert was issued for the volcano, also known by its Māori name Whakaari, indicating a ‘moderate volcanic eruption’
Sport
Double Dubai success for South Africa sevens programme – The Blitzboks kept the spirit of Rugby World Cup 2019 well and truly alive after a superb victory at the Dubai Sevens on Saturday
Anthony Joshua regains world titles: Briton’s victory over Ruiz in pictures – Anthony Joshua reclaimed his world titles in style with an accomplished performance in his rematch with Andy Ruiz Jr.
Water
Our groundwater is in peril as mismanagement of this vital resource continues – More than 700 global scientists, practitioners and experts in groundwater and related fields are calling for action to ensure sustainable climate adaptation and the protection of groundwater.
It’s all downhill: A proposal to tap gravity to solve southern Africa’s water crisis – South Africa’s government says it plans to spend R900-billion over the next decade to upgrade the country’s water supply and storage systems.
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