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NOT MUCH LEFT: Bethelsdorp Comprehensive School principal Ralph Jacobus assesses the damage caused after a classroom was set alight.Image: Riaan Marais

‘Nothing left to steal at school — now the criminals have resorted to arson’

Vandalised facilities, a disintegrating structure and now blackened walls as a result of an alleged arson attack — staff are at their wits’ end when it comes to maintaining the dignity of a long-neglected northern areas school. Educators…

Nompendulo Technical School in Zone 10, Zwelitsha was closed in January 2019.Image: Randell Roskruge

Anger that school has not reopened ‘as promised’

As hundreds of Eastern Cape parents struggle to find a school for their children, residents of Zwelitsha outside King William’s Town have slammed the provincial education department for failing to reopen Nompendulo High School following…

POOREST OF THE POOR: Pigs and human fight for scraps at the sprawling Stutterheim dump (Photo by: ALAN EASON)

Stutterheim a dismal disgrace

In the small town of Stutterheim, the poorest of the poor compete with pigs for scraps at the sprawling public dump. Weekly water and electricity outages have become the norm, and no traffic light has worked for a year. Fearing complete…

EYESORE: One of the Abandoned houses in Beacon bay that residents are complaining about.Image: MICHAEL PINYANA

Abandoned suburban mansions cause outrage

A bunch of suburban houses in Buffalo City Metro (BCM) have been abandoned by their owners and are falling into ruin. Five of the houses are in affluent Beacon Bay and one in Vincent. They have been vandalised and some invaded by…

NO SPORTMANSHIP: Damage to the fence and the removing of the wooden seats are just some of the many forms of vandalism which have struck the Breidbach Sports Grounds recently Pictures: DESMOND COETZEE

Vandals target Breidbach Sports Grounds

Continued vandalism of the Breidbach Sports Grounds over the last few months is giving members of the local sports council plenty of headaches. Damage to the walls, theft of security bars in the cloakrooms and the damaging and theft of…

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Driver and passenger attacked at Buffalo Pass

AN EAST London driver and passenger were left shaken after being attacked while driving through Buffalo Pass last week. The driver, who wished to remain anonymous, had just picked up their friend in Amalinda and decided to take a…

Big grave clean-up

Breidbach Cemetery makeover begins after municipality intervenes THE Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality (BCMM) has heeded the outcry and pleas of residents and the South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) to act on the poor…

Joy as Breidbach hall gets a makeover

THE Breidbach community hall has been upgraded into an attractive building that the community can be proud of, after numerous complaints were reported by organisers of events and revellers. The GO! ran an article in November after…

Hope for Parkside

A GOOD Samaritan restored hope for Parkside Primary School by repairing the vandalised ablution facilities and plumbing over the weekend, allowing pupils to return to school last Monday. Parkside was forced to close its doors earlier this…

Pupils sent home

Poorly secured Parkside Primary shuts doors after thieves destroy facilities These people must realise they are stealing from the children VANDALISM and theft has crippled Parkside Primary School, forcing it to close its doors to pupils…