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When the call first came from Garden Route municipal and disaster management officials for assistance after the collapse of a multistorey building under construction in George, Gift of the Givers founder Imtiaz Sooliman “did not take it so seriously”. Nevertheless, the organisation’s Knysna representative, Mario Ferreira, was on the scene within two hours.“ He just said it’s bad and we need suppor...

With less than three weeks to go before South Africans head to the polls for a fiercely contested general election, have you made up your mind about who you will be voting for? In Behind the Herald Headlines with Daron Mann, we speak to party leaders about their offerings. This week, we catch up with ANC Provincial Head of Communications, Gift Nqondi, who is confident that the "ANC will regain it'...

With three weeks to go before South Africans head to the polls for a fiercely contested general election, have you made up your mind about who you will be voting for? In Behind the Herald Headlines with Daron Mann, we speak to party leaders about their offerings. This week, we catch up with UDM leader Bantu Holomisa, who says “coalitions are here to stay in SA and it’s a good thing”. “All we need...

With four weeks to go before South Africans head to the polls for a fiercely contested general election, have you made up your mind about who you will be voting for? In Behind the Herald Headlines with Daron Mann, we speak to party leaders about their offerings. This week, we catch up with Build One SA (BOSA) leader Mmusi Maimane, who is encouraging South Africans — desperate for change — to vote...

With four weeks to go before South Africans head to the polls for a fiercely contested general election, have you made up your mind about who you will be voting for? In Behind the Herald Headlines with Daron Mann, we speak to party leaders about their offerings. This week, we catch up with RISE Mzansi national leader Songezo Zibi, who says the party is “on course to be one of the top five politica...

With five weeks to go before South Africans head to the polls for a fiercely contested general election, have you made up your mind about who you will be voting for? In Behind the Herald Headlines with Daron Mann, we speak to party leaders about their offering. This week, we catch up with DA Eastern Cape leader Andrew Whitfield, who says the party will spend the next few days driving home “our mes...

With five weeks to go before South Africans head to the polls for what is expected to be a hotly contested 2024 general election, have you made up your mind about who you will be voting for? In the coming weeks on Behind the Herald Headlines with Daron Mann, we will be speaking to party leaders about their offering. This week, we catch up with Patriotic Alliance national chair Marlon Daniels, who...

With six weeks to go before South Africans head to the polls for what is expected to be a hotly-contested 2024 general elections, have you made up your mind about who you will be voting for? In the coming weeks on Behind the Herald Headlines with Daron Mann, we will be speaking to party leaders about their offering. This week, we caught up with FF+ Eastern Cape leader Piet May who believes the par...

With six weeks to go before South Africans head to the polls for what is expected to be a hotly-contested 2024 general elections, have you made up your mind about who you will be voting for? In the coming weeks on Behind the Herald Headlines with Daron Mann, we will be speaking to party leaders about their offering. This week, we caught up with ActionSA Eastern Cape premier candidate, Athol Trolli...

With just more than six weeks to go before South Africans head to the polls for what is expected to be a hotly contested 2024 general election, have you made up your mind about who you will be voting for? In the coming works on Behind the Herald Headlines with Daron Mann, we will be speaking to party leaders about their offerings. Listen as we chat to Mzwanele Manyi of the EFF. The Herald

With just over six weeks to go before South Africans head to the polls for what is expected to be a hotly-contested 2024 general elections, have you made up your mind about who you will be voting for? In the coming weeks on Behind the Herald Headlines with Daron Mann, we will be speaking to party leaders about their offering. This week, we caught up with ACDP Eastern Cape leader Lance Grootboom. T...

The Proteas Women know what they are good at and what they need to work on as the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup approaches. That is the opinion of wicketkeeper Sinalo Jafta, reflecting on the Proteas’ 2-1 T20 series loss to Sri Lanka at Buffalo Park on Wednesday.  “Could we have done better? I think so, but I just think where we’re at as a team, we kind of know it wasn’t the best performance, but obvi...

It is two months until South Africans take to the polls in the country’s seventh democratic national and provincial election and, for the first time, voters will be faced with “ballots as big as never before”. As a result, voting, and counting of the votes, will take longer this year, according to IEC provincial manager Siyabonga Maki. This is to include independent candidates who, feeling the IEC...

Nelson Mandela Bay is SA’s murder capital according to an international report authored by the Mexican Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice. The report comes at a time when at least 25 people have been killed in the metro over the past week.  Nearly half of these deadly incidents, one involving a well-known rugby player, occurred at the weekend. In Behind The Herald Headlines with Daro...

Another vicious power struggle has enveloped EP Rugby, with some club officials accusing the body’s interim leaders of conducting a hostile takeover of the troubled organisation. With tensions high ahead of the union’s disputed meeting on March 23 an acrimonious election is expected as feuding factions battle for control. In Behind The Herald Headlines with Daron Mann this week, The Herald’s rugby...

Speeding motorists in Nelson Mandela Bay have enjoyed impunity for almost 18 months as there is nobody to oversee traffic cameras around the metro. This after the municipal contract overseeing traffic cameras was cancelled in September 2022 and has still not been renewed due to due to non-performance according to municipal traffic and licensing services director Warren Prins. In the meantime, the...

Premier Oscar Mabuyane has compared the Eastern Cape’s performance in 2023 to what the ANC government hoped to achieve in priority areas in its next five years — that is if it wins the national election in May. In many of the priority areas, the provincial government’s current performance was ahead of the curve. In this exclusive episode, he chats to Ted Keenan about the six targets that, if hit,...

Disturbing is how National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of SA (Naptosa) executive director Basil Manuel describes the goings on at a Nelson Mandela Bay primary school. Teachers at Cedarberg Primary School in Booysen Park are at their wits’ end as pupils run rampant, join gangs, threaten the teachers and classmates, and allegedly hide guns and sell dagga on school grounds. The situation has...

Libraries in Nelson Mandela Bay have been closed during weekends for six years now and there is no indication this will change any time soon. That is because only R5,000 from a provincial grant of R8m for staff salaries is budgeted for overtime payments. The matter was brought up at a sport, recreation, arts & culture committee meeting on Monday, after members requested a budget plan for the libra...

EP Rugby’s new-look executive say they have buried the hatchet to make a fresh start in the resurrection of the troubled union. In Behind The Herald Headlines with Daron Mann this week, we speak to Gerald Antonie, who was elected as acting president. He says it is time for less talk and more action and outlines the importance of club and school rugby in their blueprint. He also deals with how EP p...

Bursting with pride. That is how Ronwen Williams’ father described feeling after his son’s spectacular performance at the weekend. Rodney Williams watched the challenging match in anticipation as his son led Bafana Bafana to a 2-1 victory against Cape Verde, steering them to their first Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) semifinal in 24 years. In Behind The Herald Headlines with Daron Mann this week, w...

Nelson Mandela Bay's historic St George’s Park is being given a much-needed makeover — by residents. The park has been overgrown, neglected and overtaken by vagrants in recent years. Now, what started with simply trimming overgrown bushes and trees has quickly grown into an initiative that could result in the 160-year-old park being restored to its former glory. In Behind The Herald Headlines with...

“A weird game” is how batter Tristan Stubbs describes the Sunrisers Eastern Cape’s convincing nine-wicket win in their Betway SA20 clash against the Pretoria Capitals in Gqeberha on Monday. The Sunrisers dismissed the visiting side for a tournament record low of 52 runs in front of a raucous St George’s Park crowd. In Behind The Herald Headlines with Daron Mann this week, we catch up with Stubbs a...

“Sometimes you just have to talk to the right person at the right time.” So says Gqeberha e-hailing driver Bartho Dick who, by simply asking “how are you?” unwittingly saved the life of a suicidal passenger four years ago. The story of how Dick reached out to Natasha Mulusa while driving her in February 2020 went viral this week when Mulusa — after four years — finally mustered up the courage to s...

Medical emergency response times are being hampered in Nelson Mandela Bay by thugs preying on paramedics responding to emergencies. So says Eastern Cape health department spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo. This follows yet another attack in which paramedics were robbed at gunpoint while treating a patient in an ambulance in Despatch at the weekend. The incident took place early on Saturday when the metro...