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Electricity price hike ‘ridiculous’

LOCAL residents and businesses expect to be hard hit by the electricity price hike, which comes into effect next month.

Manelec leaves cables exposed

Port Alfred‘s electricity supplier Manelec left a trench open and underground cables exposed on Steenbras Road.

EXPOSED electric cables in a trench that was left open for at least two weeks, were a cause for concern for a local pensioner.

Fake buck poachers beware

A FARMING couple in Alexandria are sick and tired of their bush buck being poached, especially because they aren‘t even real.

Heath bugged by child rape

Steve Heath and his beach buggy, Buddy.

A SPECIAL beach buggy which made an unscheduled stop in Port Alfred on Monday caught the attention of the seaside resort.

Local rehab gives affordable help

THE Diaz (Kenton) Probus Club learned about Perseverance House – a centre for recovering addicts – at its meeting last month.

Sewage no pipe dream

Local business man, Greg Pittaway of A1 Car Wash had to get his hands, and body, dirty to try and fix a broken pipe.

THE double whammy of drought and ongoing sewage problems in Port Alfred were never more evident than last week when raw sewage flowed down one street and thousands of litres of drinking water were was

Tent for funeral causes chaos

A large white tent was erected outside of the Lighthouse Assembly of God church on Saturday.

NEIGHBOURS of the Lighthouse Assembly of God church were incredulous on Saturday when a tent for a funeral service was set up halfway into the street and steel tent pegs were driven into the tar.

PA student FHM ‘hottie’

Clarise “Mimi” de Villiers

PORT Alfred and Beyond Adventure have an FHM beauty in their midst.

‘Sir Bav’ will now never return

THE first black  mayor of Port Alfred in the Transitional Local Council era Gordon Madoda Bavuma.

GORDON Madoda Bavuma, the first black mayor of Port Alfred in the Transitional Local Council era, died in a car accident in the US last weekend.

Boy describes horror attack

A LITTLE boy, aged 10, last week described how he watched in horror as his five-year-old friend, Rayno Ruiters, was raped, tortured and beaten by three teenagers in Station Hill, Port Alfred.