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Attention deficit seminar tomorrow
ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) singles out children who display a number of symptoms like: distractability, inflexibility, lacking organising skills, recklessness and impulsive behaviour. Before current diagnoses, these children could have been ...

Brad rags
LOOKING like Brad Pitt isn't as hard as it sounds -- or at least it won't be come September. Pitt and his stylist, Todd Shemarya, are launching a clothing line with the help of three Hollywood costumers, according to DNR, the men's retail and fas...

Farm workers 'urgently need Aids education'
By Mkhululi Titi QUEENSTOWN -- It was high time for farmers throughout the Eastern Cape to stand up and start organising HIV/Aids awareness workshops for farm workers as little has been done to educate them on the syndrome, Eastern Province Agric...

UN body: Aids could slash African labour force by 26%
From Glyn Williams EAST LONDON -- A new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation projects that deaths caused by HIV/Aids in the ten most affected African countries will reduce the labour force by as much as 26 percent by 2020. The repo...

Sound livestock farming 'makes families self-reliant'
By Mbuyisi Mgibisa UMTATA -- The rural town of Mt Frere had a high potential for livestock farming and a low arable potential, said MEC for Agriculture and Land Affairs Max Mamase during a visit to Mhlotshane administrative area in Mt Frere this ...

National grant for irrigation scheme
By Mkhululi Titi QUEENSTOWN -- The national Department of Public Works has allocated R1,5 million for the Keiskammahoek irrigation scheme and this will be used mainly for infrastructural upgrading. The grant is aimed at reviving the scheme and m...

Eastern farmers to tour developed areas
By Rufus Zingqi MPINDWENI -- Organised farmers in the Eastern region will next week tour developed areas of the Eastern Cape, including Dohne Research Centre and farm produce markets near East London. This is in preparation for the R20million U...

Market prices
The following prices are for fair average quality produce marketed in East London. PRODUCTAVE.HIGHLOW VEGETABLES Butternuts1,081,200,90 Potatoes, class1 med1,141,401,00 class 2 med0,861,00,0,75 Beetroot2,753,132,00 Lettuce3,353,892,78 Cauliflower...

Millions needed for fencing
BISHO -- The Department of Agriculture needs millions of rands to deal with the lack of fencing in the former homelands where arable land is plentiful, delegates to the government's open day were told this week. Transport MEC Dennis Neer, replyin...

Saving the shad
Marking International Museum Day today Greg Brett of East London Museum looks at the return of the shad to our coast each May and tells how anglers can help keep them running. GREG BRETT reports. TAGS recovered from shad along the extensive Cape...

OJ's advice
FROM our "thanks, but no thanks" department, news comes that former football star OJ Simpson is offering advice to embattled actor Robert Blake, now at the centre of an investigation into the murder of his wife. Simpson made the remarks in an in...

Boom Shaka to act in group sex play
ONE of South Africa's most controversial singers, Boom Shaka star Lebo Mathosa, takes to the stage for the first time as an actress in this shocking and provocative production which is sure to ignite debate and get young audiences packing into the...

STARSCOPE by William Smith
ARIES: Mar 21 - Apr 21: Superb financial possibilities are coming into being so be ready to take your chances. You must back yourself while good fortune favours your aims. Go after a better-paid job or demand a raise in pay. Courage will be well ...

Free workshop for Vuka Award entrants in Grahamstown
CALLING all new, enthusiastic filmmakers! The Vuka! Awards Roadshow will be in Grahamstown next week to give free workshops to television, film and advertising students and potential Vuka! competition entrants. The Vuka! Awards initiative is an o...

Part 3 When even the tsotsis had style
Leslie Bank and Mcebisi Qamarwana of the Institute of Social and Economic at Rhodes University, East London, explore the meaning of style in East London in the 1950s. IN THE 1950s East London's locations became infatuated with cosmopolitan fa...