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Chintsa Estuary scoops 4th Green Coast award

Chintsa Estuary has once again secured the prestigious WESSA Green Coast Award for 2023, marking its fourth consecutive victory. The award winners were confirmed towards the end of October and Great Kei Municipality has scored huge wins,…

GO & EXPRESS PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION PHOTO GALLERY NUMBER 4 – GO! & Express

OR THE ENVIRONMENT: Merrifield Primary School Eco Club members with head teacher Chaylene Bachar, front centrefront. The bottles, stuffed with compressed plastic waste, are the eco-bricks made by the club members which will be used for the environmental awareness sculpture to be built on the school grounds Picture: MADELEINE CHAPUT

Eco club does it brick by brick

THE Merrifield Primary School Eco Club have been hard at work perfecting and popularising the environmentally friendly art of eco bricking in East London. Eco-bricks are constructed out of recycled two-litre plastic bottles and all sorts…

RESCUE MISSION: Fine art photographer and Buckaroo initiator, Marlene Neumann, right, and team member Petro Pohlmann attend to a dog in need. Buckaroo is now on a mission to make sure dogs belonging to needy people in townships and rural areas are spayed to prevent the problem of stray dogs Picture: SUPPLIED

Buckaroo’s sterilisation drive depends on you

FOUR years ago, renowned fine art photographer Marlene Neumann initiated a project that would help change the lives of many stray animals in and around East London. The Go & Express partnered and assisted Neumann and the Buckaroo…

BIG WALKERS: Lelethu Tukuvana and Songezo Koli did a 300km walk to raise funds to buy school shoes and uniform for underprivileged children. Before the 300km walk, Tukuvana, left, and Koli, right, met up with Steve and Mary Sanfilippo, director of the Uniform Project Picture: SUPPLIED

Pair’s 300km walk for school shoes

EL heroes raise funds for needy TWO East London heroes embarked on a 300km walk in a bid to raise money for school shoes. The two men, Lelethu Tukuvana and Songezo Koli, started their walk on October 30 and finished it on Friday November…

Excitement as Action Arte’s circus act comes to town

ALL the way from Cape Town, the Action Arte Foundation is performing in East London at Tea in the Trees this weekend. Established three years ago in Hanover Park on the Cape Flats, Action Arte is a non-profit organisation that was founded…

Hop on for 72km of fun

Huge entry set to saddle up to raise annual funds for school ABOUT 500 entries have already been received for the Kwelera 2 Kei Mouth 72km “fun” outride taking place from November 26. This “pure fun race”, with 15 fun stops along the way,…