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Site Last Updated:
Mar 15 2010 6:38AM
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15 minutes with Zwai Ngondo
THE water crisis in Queenstown has hit worrying levels with households and businesses severely affected by water restrictions imposed by Lukhanji Municipality to
clamp down on water usage. Lukhanji Business Forum chairperson and owner of Naleding – a popular hangout spot – Zwai Ngondo, talks about the dire water situation in town.
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 15 minutes with John Costello
THE proposed N2 Wild Coast Toll Road is back in the spotlight after the publication of the final Environmental Impact Assessment report this week. Long time Port St Johns resident – and environmental activist – John Costello shares his views on what the route will mean to the Transkei.
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 15 minutes with Rob van Vuuren
ROB van Vuuren aka Twakkie, has got to be one of South Africa’s funniest characters. The Afrikaans boytjie grew up on a smallholding outside East London and says he is always ready to pull up his khaki socks and present a show in his home town. He will be in the city later this month with his new comedy “Rob”bery.
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 15 minutes with Errol Willson
EAST London singer and guitarist Errol Willson, also known as Padda, celebrates 50 years of singing and entertaining East Londoners. The Daily Dispatch caught up with him for some wisdom in sustaining a long and successful music career.
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 15 minutes with Vic Beltrame
East London businessman Vic Beltrame speaks on the liquidation of textile family business Castellano-Beltrame, which has been producing and exporting quality decorative trimmings for more than four decades.
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 15 Minutes with Rainer Ruess
RAINER Ruess, Mercedes-Benz South Africa’s vice-president of manufacturing and site leader at the East London plant, sheds light on the challenges the plant has faced as well as their plans for the future
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 15 Minutes with Max du Preez
THE Dispatch caught up with acclaimed international journalist, writer and political commentator Max du Preez, to chat to him about his new book, Pale Native, and the country’s past and present political climate
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 15 Minutes with Bonakele Bikitsha
MDANTSANE boxer Bonakele Bikitsha became the latest parolee to win an Eastern Cape title when he beat Lwandisa Zinto this past Sunday. He fulfilled part of a dream that started when he was still a prisoner years ago, and also passed a test of character – coming back from a shaky start to a scintillating TKO win to take the junior-featherweight title
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 15 Minutes with Phindile Gezani
POLICE commander Captain Phindile Gezani, of King William’s Town, speaks about the rape cases that have rocked the town in recent weeks, and service delivery from the police service
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 15 Minutes with Mandla Mandela
MANDLA MANDELA, who recently visited the Eastern Cape as head of a parliamentary ad hoc committee on service delivery, speaks of the political infighting in Buffalo City Municipality
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