Disappointment LIVID fans streamed out of the new Nelson Mandela Bay stadium in Port Elizabeth on Saturday night in disappointment before the main act of the Bay Summer Concert, rapper Busta Rhymes, pitched up very late and then did not even perform.
Narrow escape: The owner of Steers at The Bridge shopping centre in Port Elizabeth narrowly escaped death when he was shot three times by robbers outside the centre on Saturday evening.
Petrol in their veins THE Rowe family have petrol in their veins, with father son and grandson competing in the Luk three-hour endurance race at the Aldo Scribante racetrack in Port Elizabeth at the weekend.
CHALLENGE: Amy Shelver captures on video the razzle-dazzle of the runway during the Weekend Post J&B Fashion Challenge elimination round this past week at Coco de Mer. Ten models and ten designers made it through to the next round.
A PORT Elizabeth schoolgirl is over the moon after being selected for admission to the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in Gauteng. Kelly-Anne Rossouw, 12, of Gelvandale, a Grade 6 pupil at Alpha Primary School, has been accepted by the academy as a Grade 7 pupil in January.
In his first public address, the new Nelson Mandela Metro executive mayor Zanoxolo Wayile talks about his plans to address the social and economic challenges facing the region.
“I FEEL betrayed,” said tearful Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Nondumiso Maphazi after officially handing her resignation letter to the council’s speaker on her birthday yesterday. This audio is an interview with Maphazi conducted by Herald reporter Rochelle de Kock.
“I FEEL betrayed,” said tearful Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Nondumiso Maphazi after officially handing her resignation letter to the council’s speaker on her birthday yesterday. This is the full audio of her speech.
SURPRISE: Amy Shelver pays a surprise visit to three of the Weekend Post J&B Fashion Challenge design finalists to see how their designs are coming along ahead of tonight’s (WED) Start a Party fashion show – and first Challenge eliminination – at the Bay’s Coco de Mer. The show starts at 8pm and tickets at R40 are at the door.
ROYALTY: The Herald Greenacres Miss Port Elizabeth Di-Anne Qoto crowned 13 little girls from Reach for a Dream “Queen for a Day” in an afternoon of belly dancing and fun.
PARTNERS: Ginn Fourie, who formed a partnership with the man who ordered her daughter’s death in December 1993, was in Port Elizabeth at the weekend as a special guest panellist at the End Conscription Campaigns 25th anniversary celebrations
HORROR REVISITED: The only girl who escaped from notorious paedophile Gert van Rooyen almost 20 years ago says the second she looked into his eyes she saw pure evil.
PARTY GEAR: A preview of the 13 designer finalists’ fabric selection race and their “meet and measure” with the model finalists at Mums in Newton Park ahead of the first round of the Weekend Post J&B Fashion Challenge on Wednesday
