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Children with the Olli Baton of Hope at the World Rhino Day event at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Museum. The kids are from Herbert Hurd Primary, Hermitage House, Kabega Primary, Capstone and Elsen Academy

Children unite for rhino conservation at art museum

About 300 people, including pupils from 10 schools, gathered at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum to celebrate World Rhino Day, highlighting rhino conservation through art and collaboration.

Terres Travel Festival co-ordinator Laia Fava Dols announces the Terres de l’Embre Award for 'SPOILED'
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Film exposes risks of offshore gas drilling near SA coast

The South African film "SPOILED", which examines the environmental, social, and economic risks of offshore oil and gas exploration along SA’s coast, has won a top sustainability award at the Terres Travel Festival in Spain.

At the Entrepreneurship Programme winners event at Tavcor on Wednesday are, from left, Bulelani Veto (socio-economic development and transformation specialist at  Airports Company SA), Christopher Tom from Christopher Tom Studio (2nd place), Renee Viljoen from RV Laundry (1st place),  Lunathi Fudu from Graceful Earth (3rd place), and Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber chief executive Denise van Huyssteen

Bay go-getters rewarded at entrepreneurship awards

The top three winners of The Entrepreneur Programme in Gqeberha were announced, with RV Laundry Services’ Renee Viljoen taking first place and R50,000, followed by fashion designer Mahlubandile Christopher Tom and Graceful Earth’s Lunathi…

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Top newsman and motoring writer Bobby Cheetham finishes final lap

Veteran motoring writer and former Herald night editor Bobby Cheetham has died at 79 in George after a distinguished career that began in Kimberley and spanned decades in Eastern Cape journalism.

Parents gather outside Herbert Hurd Primary School on Thursday morning to demand answers
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Parents, educators in showdown at Herbert Hurd foyer

Parents at Herbert Hurd Primary School are demanding the suspension of two pupils and answers after learning two months late about alleged rapes in the school toilets.

South End Museum curator and board secretary Michael Barry, right, with events co-ordinator Beverley Pieterse
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South End Museum using memory to look forward

The South End Museum is continuing to keep the spirit of SA’s original rainbow nation alive while seeking to broaden its focus.

The municipal fleet is in poor shape with cars, bakkies and trucks standing waiting to be repaired at Nelson Mandela Bay depots
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Parts shortages keep dozens of Bay vehicles off the road

The wheels have seemingly come off for the municipal fleet in Nelson Mandela Bay as more than 50 vehicles are sitting idle in depots across the metro due to a shortage of vital parts.

The common dolphin that washed up at Denville's Beach opposite Bayworld on Tuesday
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Bayworld on alert after three dolphins wash up on Gqeberha beaches

Three dolphins have washed up on Gqeberha beaches in the past week, prompting increased vigilance from Bayworld’s already watchful marine stranding team.

Coega Biomass Centre commercial director Cas Snijders, left, and commercial manager Thean Knoetze, pictured at the Port of Ngqura on Friday, where the centre is loading a huge cargo of alien wood pellets for export to a European biomass trading company
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Coega Biomass Centre exports 30,000 tonnes of ‘rabbit food’ to Europe

An alternative energy plant is loading a vessel docked at the Port of Ngqura with a huge batch of alien wood pellets, marking a huge win for the environment, jobs and revenue for the Eastern Cape.

Michaela O’Donovan chooses the best line up a rocky outcrop during a hike in the Eastern Cape wilderness retreat of Kleinrivier. The trail is marked with painted yellow leopard spoor
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Spot the plan: Public invited to comment on draft leopard strategy

The government has released a new draft strategy for the conservation and management of leopards for public comment.

Herbert Hurd Primary School in Newton Park, Gqeberha
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Gqeberha primary school pupils face sex-crime allegations

Two pupils at a Gqeberha primary school have been accused of conspiring in the alleged sexual assault of another schoolboy at the premises on several occasions.

Nelson Mandela University sustainability engineer Dr Andre Hefer is with the university's infrastructure services and space optimisation directorate

New deal raises clean energy bar at NMU

Nelson Mandela University is on track to source about 80% of the power it uses across its seven campuses from renewable sources, marking a major shift towards more sustainable, secure and cost-effective energy.

The Newton Park Swimming Pool has been closed for months for renovations
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Bay in race to stay afloat for lifesaving champs

The goal to renovate the Newton Park Swimming Pool in time for the Lifesaving World Championships in November looks set to go down to the wire as delays continue to plague the work — several months after it was due to get underway.

Humansdorp Provincial Hospital has only two working ambulances assigned to it
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State ambulance woes push health services to the brink

Lives are being put at risk by a crippling state ambulance shortage in Humansdorp, where three of the five ambulances assigned to the local hospital are grounded.

Scoopy has healed physically but her tethering torture has left deep psychological scars, and she is still fearful of people
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Couple sentenced over puppy’s agony

A Gqeberha couple has been banned from owning pets for the next decade after having nearly decapitated a puppy by tethering it around the neck with a noose made of nylon string.