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A RETIRED principal will soon be swopping the rolling hills of the Tyume Valley between Alice and Hogsback for the country of his birth – India.

Met die viering van die Narsingstraat Primêre Skool op Graaff-Reinet se 30ste bestaansjaar word daar ook met dankbaarheid teruggekyk na ’n parlementslid wat ’n “skoolhawe” vir plaaskinders wou skep.

VERLEDE Saterdag was daar groot opskudding op Cradock se gholfbaan toe Lowie Steenkamp en Dehan Stroebel ’n albatros op die sestiende gat gemaak het.

RIANCO Vermeulen (17), ’n leerder van die Hoër Volkskool in Graaff-Reinet, het die afgelope swemseisoen – wat Augustus 2017 begin en Maart 2018 geëindig het – weer gewys dat hy tot nog hoër hoogtes in die swembad in staat is.

DURING the week of June 11-15, pregnancy diagnoses were done by means of ultra sound scanning on the animals at Grootfontein College of Agriculture by Grootfontein’s veterinarian, Dr Johan van Rooyen. Some excellent conception results were seen.

MUCH has been said and written about the multitude of challenges that livestock farmers have to deal with on a daily basis, but farming in close proximity of towns brings its own problems that need to be dealt with, said…

“WHEN best-selling novelist Jo-Anne Richards accepted an invitation to speak at the Karoo Writers Festival (July 19-22), we were super excited,” said festival organiser, Lisa Ker.

IN order to share the programme and the audience with more Cradock folk, the Schreiner Karoo Writers Festival will move down to The Shed for the day-time programme on Saturday, July 21.

VALERIE Vermaak, een van Hofmeyr se oudste inwoners, het die afgelope week haar 93ste verjaarsdag gevier.