The Buffalo City Metropolitan Development Agency’s factually incorrect sign boards along the beachfront in Quigney, East London, have not been removed or corrected despite an undertaking by the agency to do so two weeks ago. The Dispatch reported on February 5 that one of the nine boards contained incorrect information relating to the isiXhosa history while another had the wrong picture of the Beach Hotel.
East London’s hopes of securing blue flag status for some of its beaches may be a distant dream if events over the Easter weekend are anything to go by.
Serendipity fortunate happenstance. Sunrise found me on the seafront side of the Kennaway Hotel. I was in between errands and too early for my next appointment. So I stopped for a cup of boulevard coffee at Mike Stone’s Grind Stone Cafe.
Despite three false starts since December last year, the Eastern Cape ANC elective conference is finally set to take place. It kicks off with the registration of 1,500 delegates at the Orient Theatre in East London on Friday morning. The conference starts at the East London ICC on Saturday. All delegates are required to present a vaccine certificate or a negative Covid-19 test not older than 72 hours.