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Nauti Buoy, KuGompo City’s ocean oracle, broke free again. The R850,000 240kg wave and weather live broadcaster is studied by oceanators from multiple interests and supplies our port crucial oceanographic intel determining port entry and…
The unorthodox manner in which the city is clearing trees and bush near power lines has raised a protest from the new Ward 18 residents and ratepayers association. The association’s Sophia Gilmore and Warren Angus said the city was…
“Buffalo City prepare for possible water shortages, heat stress, veld fires and pressure on crops and livestock. Local drought is not certain; heavy rain can still occur.” This statement of mixed misfortunes ahead in summer was made on…
A new Ward 18 Ratepayers and Residents Association has been set up in the heart of KuGompo City and is determined to win the hearts and minds of the metro’s most affluent suburbanites. Areas that will be served by the new association are…
Support for protecting and conserving the environment surrounding the Nahoon Point Nature Reserve will be combined with helping out much-loved animal sanctuary PetPals, when scores of city people enjoy a favourite dawn ritual, the Spring…
KuGompo City was where the match of public uproar against Shell mining the Wild Coast was lit. The final Constitutional Court ruling against the SA government and oil major, Shell and it’s SA associates prohibiting seismic blasting on the…
The unnatural disaster of a deluge of plastic and alien hyacinth disgorged by the Nahoon River onto the beach has added urgency to the campaign to defend marine protected areas and nature reserves. While the teacher on the beach,…
In an extraordinary display of joy and solidarity, scores of 50-plus women braved heaving seas to make body boarding history on Nahoon Beach. The first national Granny Grommets Festival attracted 132 surfing women from six seaside…
Lilyfontein School is putting an environmental message on stage in its adaptation of Little Shop of Horrors. In its official statement, the school speaks of its excitement at producing an evening of music and comedy “with a little bit of…
For nine years, children from the metro’s disadvantaged communities have found adventure, fun and purpose on the sand and in the surf at Orient Beach. The Waves for Change Surf Therapy project is observed with amazement by open water…
Nahoon Corner will host the first national gathering of over-50 SA women who will be taking part in the inaugural SA Granny Grommets Festival on July 4. Entries into the event were capped at 132 to avoid administrative complications but…
The sardines are coming — and so too are the rural schoolchildren. Southern Cross Cruises’ tour boat skipper said the number of scholars taking rides to the open ocean and around the city port was doubling every year. Last year, a…
Anthropologist Geraldine Morkom has had a front row seat in the study of how a national leadership figure can find joy and resolution in the most humble of community projects — and do their own menial grunt work. Morkom, director of the…
Eastern Cape seaside communities are starting to take action in the battle against a swathe of plastic waste washing up on our beaches. At Kwelera village, a smart bin box built from recycled plastic, with seven colourful locally printed…
Homeless people need state shelters, but there are none in the Buffalo City Metro. An estimated 200 vagrants living in the bush in the Nahoon Point Nature Reserve were a growing threat to public safety that needed to be met with legal…
