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The Yolisa Abantwana Kids’ Festival showcasing young talent is set to be held at the Mdantsane Arts Centre in celebration of National Children’s Day. The event’s organiser, Mandlakazi Batyashe-Njamela, said the festival provided a platform for people under the age of 18 to showcase their talents in dance, drama, poetry and music, as well as beadwork, pottery and other creative arts.
Or many Eastern Cape mothers, the end of the school holidays comes as a relief because their children can eat at school, where they get their only proper daily meals. According to provincial education spokesperson Malibongwe Mtima more than 1.6-million pupils benefit from the province’s school nutrition programme.
Newly elected Eastern Cape ANC Youth League chair Vuyo Jali has extended an olive branch to members who snubbed last week’s elective conference, saying he wants to unite the league in the province.
The Eastern Cape health department has released shocking statistics on a surge in the number of underage girls from East London seeking abortions at its clinics and hospitals and experts say an underage drinking crisis is helping to drive the increase.