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Weekend Post became a stage for the arts over the years, showcasing home-grown talent, international actors and singing sensations, renowned theatre performances and behind-the-scenes drama.

Engaging and sumptuously illustrated travel writing was an important part of Weekend Post’s reader offering every Saturday. Former Weekend Post features editor Brett Adkins remembers the Explorer series of travel features with much fondness. “The Explorer series came about as a result of brainstorming sessions when Weekend Post was being totally revamped — and now published on a Saturday morning as opposed to afternoon and evening — in 2003,” Adkins said.

Charmain Naidoo was Weekend Post’s managing editor from 2006 to 2010, and was instrumental in establishing the MyWeekend leisure supplement which had a great following in those years.

A newspaper article is often only as good as the picture that accompanies it, and over the years Weekend Post has boasted a line-up of remarkable photographers to tell stories in images.

A holiday coinciding with the 1995 Rugby World Cup brought newspaper man Jeremy McCabe back to his home province of the Eastern Cape after several years in New Zealand, and would spark a return to his Weekend Post roots.

Over the decades, Weekend Post adapted to the changing times, each era bringing a newsroom with its own flair and flavour.

Nelson Mandela Bay has over the years made it onto the national map for some of the biggest, most groundbreaking and heartbreaking court cases over the years — and Weekend Post and its sister publication, The Herald, were there every step of the way, keeping readers informed.

Police are investigating a case of assault after a Gqeberha cyclist was beaten in the face with a wheel spanner, allegedly by an angry motorist, in a road rage incident in broad daylight on Valentine’s Day.

One of the country’s most notorious murderers, Knysna DJ Heinrich van Rooyen, has allegedly been running a business, operating a YouTube channel and updating his LinkedIn page — all from inside his prison cell.

A Kirkwood man whose eye was dislodged from its socket in a taxi accident a decade ago, is so desperate for medical help he has turned to doctors in Cape Town in the hope of saving his eye and alleviating the excruciating pain he endures daily.