Updated: 8am GMT -- 2007/12/29

Eastern Cape

Mystery of 10000 missing EC matrics
WHAT A RELIEF: Vuyelwa Myoyo heaves a sigh of relief after confirming she had passed the matric examinations. Picture: MASI LOSI Pupils ‘dropped out’ says department By CHANDRÉ PRINCE Education Reporter WHILE the Eastern Cape governmen...

Byletts High girl among top pupils in EL district
TOP OF THE CLASS: Top matriculant in the province, Nikita Strydom, with Mlungisi Jacob, second best achiever for historically disadvantaged institutions and Historically DI in the province) and Anelisa Balfour, top pupil in the city for HDI....

Big increase in pass rate at some schools
By CHANDRÉ PRINCE DESPITE all the challenges the matric class of 2007 faced, 33 Eastern Cape schools still managed to clinch a 100 percent pass rate. This number is however four schools down from last year’s 37 and is overshadowed by the staggeri...

Every day is a holiday
WILD THING: This picture of an impala was taken at Inkwenkwezi Game Reserve outside East London at sunset with a Canon 400D. for more holiday photographs sent in by our readers. Picture: EMMA NEGUS I’M LOVING THE CAMERA: This picture was take...

EL bail breakers get a second chance
By THANDUXOLO JIKA Court Reporter ATTEMPTS by the state to revoke bail for two family members accused of bludgeoning a Buffalo Flats resident to death went up in smoke in the East London Regional Court this week. The state wanted to revoke the ba...

THE BIG QUESTION
What does the future hold for the failed matriculants? Shirley Horner Coffee Bay CHILDREN need oppor-tunities. It was a hectic year for them and it disturbed the kids and the parents. I’m hoping the government will wake up to avoiding such sit...

BEACH ART
Fredrik de Klerk, Hanlie Lombard, Pieter Heyns, Lize-Marie de Klerk and Ryno Van Zyl try their skills at building a sand castle at the Gonubie beach yesterday. Picture: PHILLIP NOTHNAGEL Eastern Cape    S...

CKI-FM shock as DJ gets late slot
But bosses say it was his decision By THANDUXOLO JIKA SUPRISE changes to the regional youth radio station CKI-FM’s programme line-up are raising eyebrows – just a weekend before they take effect on New Year’s Day. The changes will see l...

Hilton reportedly threw a ‘tantrum’
COMEDIAN Barry Hilton threw a tantrum inside a Port Elizabeth art gallery before allegedly making off with paintings worth more than R10000 to settle an unclaimed debt, the Herald reported yesterday. Hilton was reportedly arrested at his home an...

Police litter bug injures Ironman
By PETER MARTIN A WILLOW Park resident suffered serious injury to his hands when a bottle flung out of the window of a police van struck him as he cycled past. William Davis, 38, was cycling with his brother-in-law Warwick Attree, in preparation f...

In brief.......
Search continues for missing Cessna in EC RESCUE services are still searching for the Cessna 210 light aircraft that went missing on Wednesday, said SA Search and Rescue Organisation head Charles Norval yesterday. “We haven’t had success, but a...