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A new staffer at the ’Mail
Barend J Williams has joined the DistrictMail & Helderberg Gazette team as a journalist. The Gordon’s Bay resident is ready to apply his journalistic experience to the community’s needs.
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Jamey makes it to the top!
Jamey Gordon, news editor of DistrictMail & Helderberg Gazette, was among the country’s top community journalists honoured at the annual AVBOB FCJ Excellence Awards in Johannesburg on Friday evening (2 August).
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‘Help us restore our razed home’
A Somerset West resident is desperately appealing to the compassionate Helderberg community to help restore her heritage-rich family home in Church Street severely damaged by a devastating fire that swept through the property more than two years ago.
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School library is ‘a symbol of hope’
In an uplifting tale of hope and the value of education, a Macassar school long deprived of a vital learning resource is set to embark on a new chapter.
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Walker Bay Orchid Society to host 30th anniversary show
The Walker Bay Orchid Society celebrates its 30th anniversary with a show at St Peter’s Anglican church hall in Main Road, Hermanus, on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 August.
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Celebrating 10 years of giving babies a second chance
A decade after a baby abandoned on a riverbank sparked an idea for a lifesaving initiative, the Helderberg Baby Saver (HBS) celebrates this milestone this month.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT: Time to mull over women
South Africans celebrate women this month, with Friday (9 August) marking National Women’s Day, which commemorates the 20 000 women who marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria on that date in 1956 in protest against the proposed extension of…
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Celebrating 10 years of giving babies a second chance
A decade after a baby abandoned on a riverbank sparked an idea for a lifesaving initiative, the Helderberg Baby Saver (HBS) celebrates this milestone this month.
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School library is ‘a symbol of hope’
In an uplifting tale of hope and the value of education, a Macassar school long deprived of a vital learning resource is set to embark on a new chapter.
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Walker Bay Orchid Society to host 30th anniversary show
The Walker Bay Orchid Society celebrates its 30th anniversary with a show at St Peter’s Anglican church hall in Main Road, Hermanus, on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 August.
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