Gerald Berlyn News Today

More than 8,000 households in two Eastern Cape towns will be spared the frustration of load-shedding stages 1 to 4 as part of a national initiative by Eskom to manage electricity demand.The power utility launched the load-limiting project in Fourways, Johannesburg, in 2023.

Tears flowed as nine triumphant Grandads were welcomed home on Sunday. The stringy Grandads Army troopers had pounded out 1,500km over 14 days to raise thousands of rand from an admiring public.

The belching wreck of a huge ore carrier, chunks of cement, rocks, oil and charred rubber smeared across the R31 in Phalaborwa.

The raindrops were literally drying on my helmet visor when I spotted Buffalo City traffic cops setting up their ATM at the entrance to the Gonubie cement road. I mean, they were emptying pockets metres from the circle leading off the old R102 Farmarama circle. Google tells me they were one minute away from where Anthropogene, the climate monster, came and bit off chunks of bitumen and road metal barriers.

A storm which stretched thousands of kilometres across the southern Indian Ocean sent a surge of giant 8.2m surf to the East Coast, closing the East London port. For surfers and paddlers, this was a 26-foot swell, similar to the size of surf ridden at the North Shore big wave break, at Waimea Bay, Hawaii.

My much-loved mirthful mate Gerald Berlyn loves to answer the phone: “It wasn't me, I was not there, I wasn't near the place.” But on Sunday there was no pleading the fifth. He was there, it was him, and he actually took Deloris and I to the very place. Biker Sundays can be burns to restaurants in great locations where the next picture posts are burgers and beers.