Absa Stadium News Today

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Widespread complaints by BCM sport enthusiasts who were either barred from using East London’s Absa and Jan Smuts Stadiums, or were charged exorbitant fees to do so, should soon be a thing of the past. The metro has finally signed a 20-year lease agreement with Chippa Training Academy — just over two years after the council approved the long-term leasing of the two stadiums, which are adjacent to each other, to Chippa United football club boss Siviwe “Chippa” Mpengesi.

EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu has conceded the party is “still very far from being an ideal organisation” in the Eastern Cape Shivambu gave a keynote address at the opening of the third provincial people’s assembly currently underway at the Absa Stadium in East London “We have an obligation at all times as revolutionaries …to claim no easy victories and tell no lies.

A former car guard is bringing Durban flavour to the Gonubie beachfront, after local surfers and community members rallied together to kick-start Jay’s Hotspot. Jayanthran “Jay” Govender, 49, from Durban, came to East London with friends to sell bedding but was left abandoned in Quigney where he was robbed of his possessions in January.

A fierce contest between political allies turned rivals, or a managed outcome for the coveted position of boss of the ANC in the Eastern Cape?

"Take the money but do the right thing and remain focused."Addressing his supporters in the early hours of Friday morning, ANC Eastern Cape chair hopeful Babalo Madikizela said they should not to be swayed by bribes, instead they must take the bribe but vote the right way.

Anyone who has seen people bribe ANC delegates must come forward and report it.This was ANC provincial task team convener Oscar Mabuyane’s response to PTT member Babalo Madikizela after he urged delegates to accept bribes but vote correctly.

When we read the Daily Dispatch of 8 May 2021, our eyes welled with tears at the prospect of the demolition of Victoria Grounds in Qonce (formerly King William’s Town) for commercial purposes — a shopping mall is proposed — despite its rich history and heritage; and of the imminent closure of the King William’s Town Golf Club, thanks to lack of funding from both our government and private sector (we must also say that our newspapers have kept alive the tradition of good journalism that...