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I like to think I know a lot about the sea and by extension, fish and water too. I have been fishing since the age of five, bodyboarding since about 12 and surfing since I was about 15. That puts me in the water for a good 50 years or more. Throw in snorkelling, an attempt at spear fishing and swimming training and water is my happy place.

Sampling bizarre food pairings such as canned beef with grapes or prawns with wine gums is all part of former East Londoner Moshe Ndiki’s new TV gig. As the zany host of S3’s (formerly SABC3) vibrant new show Ready Steady Cook, Ndiki’s job is to make sure contestants and the celebrity chefs assigned to them produce edible, beautifully plated dishes in just 20 minutes, with much mayhem and laughter during the recording.

The San Diego Padres have acquired right-hander Dylan Cease in a trade with the Chicago White Sox for reliever Steven Wilson and three prospects: right-handers Drew Thorpe and Jairo Iriarte, and outfielder Samuel Zavala. Cease, who turned 28 in December, was second in AL Cy Young Award voting in 2022 after going 14-8 with a 2.20 ERA. He went 7-9 with a 4.58 ERA last year for a White Sox team that went 61-101. Cease joins a rotation that includes Yu Darvish and Joe Musgrove. He agreed in January ...

Led by Ileri Ayo-Faleyes 19 points, the Vermont Catamounts defeated the New Hampshire Wildcats 66-59 in the America East Conference Tournament semifinals on Tuesday night.

As residents of Kei Mouth and Morgan Bay (Gxarha) continued to pick up the pieces after last week’s devastating storm, it emerged there was plenty of damage further inland as well. The Amathole District Municipality (ADM) has appealed to the human settlements department for help with more than 200 families who were left homeless.

The Utah Jazz went an excruciating seven minutes and two seconds without a point on Tuesday night, a stretch that saw their deficit against the visiting Celtics grow.

The King Sabata Dalindyebo municipality, the third-largest economy in the Eastern Cape, might have failed to become a metro, but municipal bosses this week announced grand plans to further bolster the local authority’s economy. Giving an administrative overview of the municipality during the first day of KSD’s mega strategic planning session at the Savoy Hotel and Conference Centre in Mthatha on Monday, municipal manager Ngamela Pakade revealed ambitious plans to revive a railway line betwee...

The Eastern Cape government has announced that more than R2bn has been earmarked to turn 11 strategic gravel routes into tar roads. Finance MEC Mlungisi Mvoko told the Bhisho Legislature on Tuesday that R512.9m had been added to the provincial roads maintenance grant, increasing it from R1.5bn to R2.

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You’ve seen a lot in your lifetime! From the invention of the wheel (just kidding!) and the personal computer to the moon landing and the...