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Electricity accounts unblocked during lockdown
THE Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has decided to unblock all previously blocked electricity accounts to enable electricity purchases during the country’s current lockdown period.
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Turn busy young minds into busy bees at home
THERE is a saying that has become truly profound in 2020: “Expect the unexpected. Believe in the unbelievable. Achieve the unachievable.”.
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ACTIVITY: Newspapers can be turned into learning tools
Just a few pages from your newspaper can be turned into lots of early learning activities. Here you’ll find “letters and words” activities for the youngest, plus fun writing prompts and tips on how to read and analyse the news…
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Transition smoothly into winter with Crème brûlée
THE creamy, silky textured crème brûlée is the stuff of dessert legend.
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Covid-19: How readers deal with the challenges
After President Cyril Ramaphosa declared the Covid-19 pandemic a national disaster, drastic measures were put into place to contain the outbreak in South Africa. Some include social distancing, cancellation of events, especially where more than 100 p
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CRAFT: Make your own fizzy bath bombs
Why not make bath time fun by making fizzy bath bombs with your child? You will be spending some quality time with your little one and he/she will have loads of fun seeing their handiwork come to ‘life’…
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Sporadic sewage spills a concern
OVER the past few weeks, raw sewage has sporadically been spilling into the Baakens River.
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Supermarket staff clean up their communities
SOME 574 staff members from Shoprite, Checkers and Usave stores in the Eastern Cape and parts of the Southern Cape removed close to 1 000 bags of waste from 104 communities recently.
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Dancers prepare for internationals
THE McWilliams Academy of Dance (M.A.D) recently hosted international examiner and adjudicator, Nancy Troy O’Herlihy, to adjudicate the ‘Feis on the Bay’ Irish dance competition at The Savoy Theatre.
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Local poet hopes to inspire with life story
ALGOA Park poet, Rozetta Whitting, hopes to share her experience as a mother to a child with Down syndrome, and hopefully encourage others in her poetry collection titled Hemelgedigte, which translates to Heaven Poems.
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