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Eskom was today meant to submit its application for tariff increases from April 1 next year(SABC)

Eskom has asked the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) for another month to submit its application for tariff increases. “This is to allow Eskom time to do additional scenarios which government has requested to be included in the application,” it said in a statement.

The utility was today meant to submit its application for tariff increases from April 1 next year. “Though previous determinations have been for three years, Eskom will propose a five-year determination for MYPD 3 (multi-year pricing determination) to ensure a predictable, longer-term price path for customers, investors and the country.”

Meanwhile, more farmers are converting to hydro-electricity in an effort to avoid high electricity tariffs from Eskom and unpredictable power cuts. Some farmers in the Cradock district generate their own power from the Fish River

The cost savings are reportedly astronomical and consumers would benefit in the end. A farm in Cradock previously bought power from the Somerset East municipality which was even more expensive than buying from Eskom. On the farm Van der Lindeskraal, they grow potatoes, onions mealies, lucerne and wheat, which takes a lot of water.

The farm is situated along the Fish River and management decided to generate power from it. A huge turbine was installed generating 280 KiloWatts. Farm manager Barend Bouwer says it cost about R8 million, but was worth every cent. He, however, still has to buy a third of the electricity needed from the municipality.

Bouwer says theirs is a long term decision “just to get the cost of electricity down, over seven years”. “The advantages are that you have your own power and no electricity cuts, so it is more constant electricity. And then the cost over the long term, just to keep our production costs lower.”

“We cut about two thirds of the electricity cost per month and that’s on half of the farm. It’s about R70 000-R80 000 a month at this stage that we save.” – Additional reporting by Sapa

SOUTH African academic and distinguished linguist Neville Alexander, who spent time in jail with Nelson Mandela, has died of cancer aged 75, the University of Cape Town says

Born in the southern town of Cradock in 1936, the mixed race activist would go on to campaign against apartheid in the 1950s and spend a decade on Robben Island.

Alexander obtained his doctorate in German at the University of Tuebingen in then West Germany in 1961.

Three years later he was convicted for conspiracy to commit sabotage in South Africa against the white minority regime, along with other members of the National Liberation Front, which he co-founded. He spent the next 10 years on Robben Island, a political prison off the coast of Cape Town.

One of Alexander’s companions was Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in various jails before he was released and became South Africa’s first black president in 1994.

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Alexander taught other inmates history, while Mandela taught law and current presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj economics.

Released in 1974, the scholar joined Steve Biko’s Black Consciousness Movement.

Alexander ran in the 1994 elections at the end of white minority rule with the Trotskyist Workers Organisation for Socialist Action, which won 0.02 per cent of votes at the poll.

Having joined the University of Cape Town, Alexander later focused on multilingualism in a nation discovering democracy and confronted with the increasing influence of English.

South Africa has 11 official languages, but English is often used as common language.

“He will always be remembered for his pioneering work on language policy, including his most recent work, focusing on the tension between multilingualism and the hegemony of the English language in the public sphere,” said President Jacob Zuma in a statement.

“At a professional level, Dr Alexander, as an accomplished linguist, contributed immensely to language development in our country,” Zuma added.

The world marks International Day of the Disappeared today.(SABC)

Amnesty International and the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University will today honour the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (Pebco) Three for their contribution to the struggle against apartheid as the world marks International Day of the Disappeared.

Qaqawuli Godolozi, Sipho Hashe and Champion Galela were abducted from the Port Elizabeth Airport by security police and tortured at Post Chalmers near Cradock where they were killed in the mid-80’s.

Three years ago, the Justice Department handed over the remains to their families after tests concluded that they were those of the activists.

A descendant of East African slaves and an inmate with Nelson Mandela on Robben island, Neville Alexander should best be remembered as perhaps the greatest mind thrown up by the revolutionary left in the South African struggle.

Born in Cradock in what is now the Eastern Cape he became a Marxist early in life through contacts at school and university. Influenced by Maoism in his early political life and by ideas of importing guerrilla warfare into the South Africa struggle, by the early 1960s Alexander himself at the beginning of a decade of imprisonment on Robben island. He had however become significantly attracted to the ideas of Trotskyism, particularly after meeting Natalya Sedova, Trotsky’s widow, in Paris during his overseas studies.

During his time in prison and afterwards he developed an analysis of capitalism in South Africa which critiqued and helped to understand how the class struggle was perceived in racial terms and ‘colour-caste relations’. Although this was criticized within the Trotskyist left by theorists such as Hillel Ticktin, Alexander’s attempt to undermine the reactionary role of the race issue in South African liberatory politics led to major insights into what a post-apartheid regime might look like and how activists could create a truly multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, working-class based liberation movement. The failure of the ANC to do this and to challenge capital in the transition from white minority rule in South Africa led to Alexander seeing the transition as an “unfinished revolution”.

Alexander always regretted that he wasn’t able to construct an ongoing dialogue after his imprisonment with Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness Movement, but in the early 1990s it was clear that new political questions about the role of the working class in the post-Apartheid era were emerging and it was during this period that he founded the Workers’ Organisation for Socialist Action to advocate for independent anti-Stalinist working-class politics in South Africa and to agitate for a mass workers’ party in opposition to the stranglehold of the South African Communist Party and its support for the ANC.

He also continued his studies of national liberation begun in prison and, specifically, until the end of his life on the role of education in the struggle for emancipation in South Africa. This led to him to a directing role in understanding the primacy of the idea of a multi-language state – which is undoubtedly one of the few policy successes of the post-Apartheid ANC. In his foreword to the Zulu translation of the Communist Manifesto, Alexander again stressed the importance of struggling against colonial mastery through the languages of the masses and the reassertion of the idea of education as a primary tool of socialism.

He never hid is profound disappointment with the nature of the post-Apartheid state even though he had clearly predicted it. In his Strini Moodley lecture at the University of KwaZulu Natal in 2010 he referred to Hilary Mantel’s great novel of the French revolution A Place of Greater Safety. One of the characters, Lucille wants to know what the philosophy of the Revolution actually was. She was wary of asking Robespierre about this as he would lecture her for hours on the General Will, or of asking Desmoulins who would provide an insightful couple of hours on the Roman republic. So she asked Danton and he just said: “Oh, I think it has a philosophy – Grab what you can, and get out while the going’s good.”

This expressed the disillusionment of most South Africans with the new regime and its new elite of millionaires which had left most Black South African lives untouched. In fact Alexander considered the new state much more capitalist that its Apartheid parent. He argued that the settlement of 1994 was about stabilizing and expanding capitalist transformation in South Africa and had little to do with liberation or socialism.

He argued until the end of his life for a relentless criticism of capital, a vision of full rather than constitutional legality, for full gender rights, for access to basic services so absent in South Africa, for workers’ control over the means of production. Anticipating the Marikana massacre he wrote in 2010: “The final disillusionment will come, of course, when the repressive apparatuses of the state, instead of supporting the exploited masses and other oppressed strata, turn their weapons on the masses to protect the interests of the capitalist class.”

Neville Alexander’s attempt to understand the nature of Stalinism and its pernicious effects on the liberation struggle and his lifelong dedication to developing working class political independence are an inspiration to those he worked with and to our struggles in other parts of the world and certainly in the South Africa in which he was immersed and loved. As he said not long ago “I believe that if, through discussion and practical action, we can again visualise that other South Africa, we will very soon put behind us the barbaric and vulgar universe in which we are forced to try to survive with dignity today.”

Current struggles in South Africa mark out the route towards that social liberation that Alexander long planned for and will not now see.

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JOHANNESBURG — South African academic and distinguished linguist Neville Alexander, who spent time in jail with Nelson Mandela, died of cancer aged 75 on Monday, the University of Cape Town said.

Born in the southern town of Cradock in 1936, the mixed race activist would go on to campaign against apartheid in the 1950s and spend a decade on Robben Island.

Alexander obtained his doctorate in German at the University of Tuebingen in then West Germany in 1961.

Three years later he was convicted for conspiracy to commit sabotage in South Africa against the white minority regime, along with other members of the National Liberation Front, which he co-founded. He spent the next 10 years on Robben Island, a political prison off the coast of Cape Town.

One of Alexander’s companions was Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in various jails before he was released and became South Africa’s first black president in 1994.

Alexander taught other inmates history, while Mandela taught law and current presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj economics.

Released in 1974, the scholar joined Steve Biko’s Black Consciousness Movement.

Alexander ran in the 1994 elections at the end of white minority rule with the Trotskyist Workers Organisation for Socialist Action, which won 0.02 percent in the poll.

Having joined the University of Cape Town, Alexander later focused on multilingualism in a nation discovering democracy and confronted with the increasing influence of English.

South Africa has 11 official languages, but English is often used as common language.

“He will always be remembered for his pioneering work on language policy, including his most recent work, focusing on the tension between multilingualism and the hegemony of the English language in the public sphere,” said President Jacob Zuma in a statement.

“At a professional level, Dr Alexander, as an accomplished linguist, contributed immensely to language development in our country,” Zuma added.

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Cooking has never been so entertaining since that moment anyone ever became familiar since the existence of Fanny Cradock, thanks to the superb vid below.

Separating egg whites from their yolks is a complicated process made all the more daunting when observing other people’s techniques that seem to owe more to juggling or surgery than knocking together a soufflé.

However, some very clever bods from a Chinese video site, Jifenzhong, have come up with a captivatingly bizarre – yet simple – method to getting the yellow bit away from the gooey bit.

And all you need is a plate and an empty plastic water bottle. And an egg, obviously.

Click on the video player below and be more amazed by an egg than that time you found out how chickens have sex.

 

Siyabonga Mkhwanazi

Internationally renowned linguist, academic and struggle veteran Neville Alexander made a name for himself from a young age before he became known for his literary work.

He died in Cape Town yesterday at the age of 76. He had not been well for some time.

Alexander was born and bred in Cradock in the Eastern Cape in 1936. After matriculating at Holy Rosary School in Cradock in 1952, Alexander went to the University of Cape Town where he studied German and history.

In 1955 he completed his BA degree and then pursued an honours and a masters degree in German.

At the height of apartheid in the early 1960s, Alexander teamed up with Ottie Abrahams, Dulcie September and Fikile Bam to form the Yu Chi Chan Club, a guerrilla movement based on Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong’s art of reforming China. Alexander later changed the name of the organisation to the National Liberation Front (NLF).

Alexander was arrested in 1964 and sentenced to 10 years on Robben Island on charges of attempted sabotage.

Upon his release in 1974 he focused his energies on political and academic work.

He served on the NLF and worked for various organisations, including the South African Committee for Higher Education.

At the time of his death he was the director for the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa, based at the University of Cape Town.

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He was fortunate enough to be chosen to do a sabbatical at Harvard as a
visiting fellow in 1974 and then went to Stockholm as Commercial Counsellor,
followed by Paris as Minister (Economic) from 1977 to 1979. He reverted to
the handling of Chinese questions in 1980, as an under-secretary in the
Foreign Office for the next three years, before going to his final post in
Beijing in 1984.

Evans was an attractive man with a lively mind and a nice sense of humour. As
a young diplomat in Beijing he had been one of an exceptionally talented
group who seemed destined to rise high, and counted the future Foreign
Secretary Douglas Hurd among their number. At the time, Evans was a lively
participant in amateur theatricals and other recreational activities.

In his subsequent career, he won high praise for his steadiness and good
sense. His Embassy in Beijing was crowned with notable success in terms of
Anglo-Chinese relations, though Evans was the first to admit that the ups
and downs of these relations are by their nature unpredictable and volatile.
Though his career was not solely concerned with Chinese problems, it was
China that was central to his diplomatic activity and it was fitting that he
should have finished his career in Beijing, where he was in attendance for
the Queen’s State Visit in 1986.

Evans’s impulse towards scholarship led him in retirement to devote himself
principally to writing a biography of the Chinese leader, Deng Xiaoping,
whom he had first seen on the podium with Mao Tse-tung in 1955. It proved a
formidable task since it involved lengthy research in Chinese sources not
easily available.

The result was published in 1993, under the title Deng Xiaoping and the Making
of Modern China. It was recognised as a substantial academic achievement and
won good reviews from scholars in the West, as well as being regarded with
respect and admiration in China. During the writing of the book, Evans was
generously supported, as a resident fellow, by Wolfson College, Oxford. He
later became a fellow emeritus.

Also in retirement, Evans took a close interest in the Ironmongers’ Company,
of which he had been a member for some years. He was elected Master of the
Company in 1999 and much enjoyed the role of enlightened benefactor of a
number of deserving causes.

He was appointed CMG in 1978, KCMG in 1984 and KCVO in 1986.

Richard Evans married, first, in 1960 (dissolved 1970), Margaret Sessinger. He
married, secondly, in 1973, Grania Birkett; they had two sons, and enjoyed a
very happy domestic life, latterly in Wiltshire.

Sir Richard Evans, born April 15 1928, died August 24 2012

Steve Cradock

Joe Bill, Features Reporter
Monday, August 13, 2012
8:59 AM

Steve Cradock confirms gig at intimate venue

Gig details:

The Royal Function Rooms, Rochester

Friday, September 21

Tickets £12

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Lead singer of legendary 90s indie band Ocean Colour Scene, Steve Cradock has confirmed he will be performing at the Royal Function Rooms in Rochester in September.

Cradock, who has also played alongside Paul Weller and Liam gallagher in a number of one off songs, will play the solo gig infront of just a couple of hundred people at the intimate venue.

Known for penning songs like “Day we Caught the Train”, “Hundred Mile High City” and “The RIverboat Song”, Ocean Colour Scene were one of the frontrunners in the Britpop era that seems to have reappeared in recent times.

The announcement, courtesy of local music promoters Preservation Society Presents, is yet another coo for Medway who have recently hosted John Lydon’s PiL at Rochester Castle, while also bagging gigs for hip-hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash and underground indie band The Cribs.

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A pub has won an award for having the best kept cellar in the region.

The Cradock Arms, in Knighton, was judged to have the best cellar in the Midlands and Wales region in The Publican’s Morning Advertiser’s Great British Pub Awards.

Licensee Jonathan Wainwright, who runs the pub with wife Leah, said: “It’s the first time I have been entered into a competition like this and we are delighted.”

Mark Tetlow, of Enderby-based pub operator Everards Brewery, said the award reflected the couple’s dedication and quality of the beer served.

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The Eastern Province has traditionally been a feeder province: brilliant school rugby players would be sourced from various schools and would complete their tertiary education at institutions such as UCT, Stellenbosch, Wits and Tukkies.

Schools in Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage, Despatch, East London, Grahamstown Queenstown, Cradock and Somerset East would produce talent that would have the rest of South Africa salivating, whipping out their cheque books to ensure these kids participation at their rugby unions.

Below is a list of the rugby players who have moved provinces to further their careers. Imagine what might have been for the Eastern Cape if they had stayed home and played their rugby!

Two rugby legends, and darlings of the Newlands rugby faithful were educated at Gill College in Somerset East. Yes, Carel du Plessis (the Prince of Wings) and Michael du Plessis learnt their rugby on the very hard winter fields of Somerset East. Lets not forget Willie du Plessis, their older brother, who also played Springboks!

Rassie Erasmus grew up in Despatch. Hennie le Roux learnt his rugby at Graeme College, Grahamstown and was part of a team that dominated in 1986 and 1987. Their backline was unstoppable. He started is senior rugby career at Eastern Province and ended up with Transvaal.

Garth Wright was educated at Muir College and then played for Eastern Province and then Transvaal.

His debut was against the New Zealand Cavaliers. Remember them? The unofficial All Blacks. Footage of those games have been buried in the archives, never to be seen again.

When Garth Wright replaced Divan Serfontein at scrum half, the backline consisted of Garth Wright, Naas Botha, Michael du Plessis, Danie Gerber, Carel du Plessis, Ray Mordt and Johan Heunis.  Four of the seven backline players learnt their trade in the Eastern Cape.

Os du Randt was schooled at Piet Retief (as it was called then) in Adelaide. Apart from his rugby skills he was a member of the 4 X 100m relay team.

Brent Russell and Mark Andrews were schooled at Selborne. Russell Bennett and  Nick Mallett attended St Andrews College in Grahamstown.

Danie Gerber, who I regard as the greatest centre ever to play for South Africa, was a loyal servant of Eastern Province until he moved to Western Province in the twilight of his career. He was still fast enough to represent WP on the wing!

If the Eastern Province can retain 50% of its rugby talent through the Southern Kings franchise (a lot of effort has been put into an academy), who knows what the future can bring for the Southern Kings? Success?

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Staff at a pub are celebrating after winning an award for the tip-top condition of its cellar.

The Cradock Arms in Knighton, Leicester has scooped the Publican’s Morning Advertiser’s Great British Pub Award for best kept cellar and bar in the Midlands and Wales region.

The pub was judged by independent auditors Innserve and inspected on its beer dispense lines, dates on barrels and temperature checks.

The pub will now compete against seven other finalists for the title of the UK’s best kept cellar.

The Everards pub is run by Jonathan and Leah Wainwright, who took over eight months ago.

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After years of planning, Medford’s Cradock Bridge is scheduled to begin reconstruction in 2014. The feat will take three years to complete.

Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) officials attended a Medford City Council meeting on Aug. 7 to answer questions about the project, slated to cost $8.5 million.

“This is mind-boggling,” said City Councilor Robert Penta. “We were told the design would be $875,000 and the construction would be $2.5 million. You just used the term $8.5 million.”

The entire project will be state-funded. Penta asked why the reconstruction could not be accomplished more quickly like the Fast14 Interstate93 project, in which 14 bridges were replaced over the course of a few weekends last summer.

Cradock Bridge Project Manager Paul King explained the Fast14 bridges were completed quickly only because the superstructure, or upper part of the bridge, was replaced, leaving the substructure intact. However, the Cradock Bridge requires complete reconstruction.

Also, because the Cradock Bridge is the main point of entry to get in and out of Medford Square, including for emergency vehicles, some lanes of traffic must remain open during construction.

“During construction, we would always have two lanes going out, and one lane going in,” said King. “If we could close the bridge to traffic, it would be done more quickly.”

City Councilor Michael Marks asked if the new bridge could accommodate space for a bus stop. Earlier this year, the council debated removing a bus stop located in front of 21 Main St., just north of the bridge.

“The MBTA does not like to put buses at turnouts because it’s more difficult to pull back into traffic from the curb,” King responded, adding that preserving the sidewalk railing would make adding a bus stop more difficult.

      

Historical Commission concerns

King said he received comments from the Medford Historical Commission regarding the Cradock Bridge project and submitted responses to their concerns.

“The Medford Historical Commission is keenly aware of the historical significance of the Cradock Bridge,” wrote MHC chairman Ryan Hayward in an April 16 letter. “Despite MHC’s opinion that the bridge is not eligible for the National Register, we feel that it is an important local structure and great care needs to be given in the review of this project as a whole.”

The commission recommended more stakeholder groups be included in the design process and that the upstream side of the bridge facing west be covered with granite instead of concrete to maintain a consistent, historically accurate appearance. King responded designers intend to match the upstream side with the downstream-side’s appearance.

The commission also disagreed with removing the bridge’s center median, arguing the small swath of land helps maintain a visual and physical extension of Medford Square over the bridge towards South Medford.

“The center median removal allows enough shoulder width (4 ft.) on each side of the roadway to accommodate bicycles,” King wrote in response. “The median can be retained, and minimal shoulders provided. MassDOT will coordinate with the city for their preference.”

The Historical Commission further expressed concern about lighting around the bridge and about the project’s potential impact on two adjacent historic buildings next to the structure.

King responded the buildings will be examined later in the design process and any restrictions or special precautions determined necessary will  be included in the contract.

The Cradock Bridge is currently at 25 percent design completion. Before it can advance to 75 percent completion, a public hearing must take place.

Donny Daley, of MassDOT government affairs, said the agency would advertise to hold a public hearing on the project in Medford this fall.

Penta requested the public hearing take place during a televised City Council meeting. Daley responded the agency has no problem abiding by that stipulation.

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More Than 600 Citations Issued in MBTA Fare Evasion Crackdown: A crackdown on subway freeloaders has resulted in more than 600 citations being issued since July 9. The Transit Police released numbers on Thursday for “Operation Fare Game.” So far, 636 citations have been handed out. There are various ways to avoid paying your fare. One tactic is “piggybacking,” or walking in right behind someone who did pay. Another is holding the sensor open for people behind you, as anti-austerity activists are prone to do.

State: Cradock Bridge Replacement to Cost $8.5M: Replacing the Cradock Bridge in Medford Square will cost about $8.5 million and take three construction seasons to complete, according to state officials. At least three lanes will be open for traffic at all times during construction on the bridge, which takes cars and pedestrians on Main Street over the Mystic River. Construction is expected to begin in Spring 2014, Project Manager Paul King said during a presentation to the Medford City Council last week.

Weather: There’s a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms with highs in the low 80s today, according to the National Weather Service. Similar weather is expected tomorrow.

YOUR TURN: Starbucks In Funeral Homes?: A Starbucks is going to open inside a funeral home in South Carolina. Patch wants to know what you think about this, according to ABC News. Those attending a funeral at the Robinson Funeral Home in Easley, S.C., will soon be able to order a frappuccino before paying their respects. According to ABC News, the owner is also installing an area with Wi-Fi, a television and fireplace in the funeral home.

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Plus…. MYSTERY JETS, BILLY BRAGG, ZANE LOWE (DJ set), FRANK TURNER (solo), MILES KANE, STEVE CRADDOCK plus MYSTERY GUESTS to be announced

Able2UK is pleased to announced that Friendly Fires are to headline a fundraiser gig for disabled awareness at Camden’s Roundhouse on 20th August 2012. Organised by Howard Thorpe and promoted by Metropolis Music and Coda Agency, the event will also see Frank Turner (solo), Miles Kane, Steve Cradock and a mystery guest performing. 

Money raised from the concert will go towards improving facilities for those with disabilities at music venues across the UK. The monies will create a brand new Able2UK area at UK festivals which will replace the standard disabled viewing platforms forthose in wheelchairs. 

The profits raised will also help those who require special seating arrangements, hearing loops and even an easier way to purchase refreshments at live events, as well as protection from the sun (visors, hats etc.) and cold weather (extra blankets etc.) if required. This is not only for wheelchair users, but for the deaf, blind and those with co-ordination barriers.

Howard Thorpe, Able2UK founder says “To have a line-up of this caliber is a dream come true and will be the perfect way to launch what I hope will become an annual event promoting disabled awareness.”

Oscar nominated actor, producer and major Hollywood player Mark Wahlberg has commissioned a special film to draw attention to close friend Howard Thorpe’s incredible on-going efforts to raise awareness and funds for this hugely-deserving cause.

Replacing the Cradock Bridge in Medford Square will cost about $8.5 million and take three construction seasons to complete, according to state officials.

At least three lanes will be open for traffic at all times during construction on the bridge, which takes cars and pedestrians on Main Street over the Mystic River. Construction is expected to begin in Spring 2014, Project Manager Paul King said during a presentation to the Medford City Council last week.

The design features of the new bridge will include small arches and other design details that are considered historic elements of the current bridge, built in 1909, King said.

The remnants of a dam beneath the bridge, which are non-functional, will also be removed as part of the project, King said. Two lanes heading south out of Medford Square and one lane heading north will remain open throughout construction.

Since it is a state road, the Department of Transportation is paying for the entirety of the project. Still, Councilor Robert Penta expressed his surprise over the price tag.

“What are you building here a mausoleum?” Penta said last Tuesday. “This is nothing more than a bridge.”

The project was originally expected to cost $2.5 million, but that went up significantly during the design process.

The city will be expecting mitigation from the project, Penta said.

“I think we need to know where we’re going with the mitigation before we go any further for this,” he said.

Councilors also asked whether it would be possible to create space for a bus stop on the bridge, which would allow for the current stop further north on Main Street to be moved there. But King said that was probably not possible since the new bridge will maintain the same foot print as the current one.

A public hearing will be held in October in Medford for the project.

Media Statement
from Eastern CapeMedia Centre

Corporate
Communication

South African
Police Service

 

10 August 2012

 

Cradock Detective SAPS are looking for three suspects linked to an armed
robbery which took place 9 August 2012, in Cradock at about 19:00.

 

It is alleged that on Thursday 9 August 2012 at about 19:00, the
complainant was robbed of cash, cigarettes, airtime and two (2) cell phones by
three (3) unknown suspects who entered his spaza shop as he was about to close.
They allegedly hit him on the head with a firearm and he sustained minor
injuries. No shots were fired. No arrests have been made as yet.

                                                                                                -End-

 

Media
Enquiries:

 

Captain Stefanie Smith

082 301 8668

Cradock Corporate Communications

SAPS

 

 

 

 

We then jumped to Beijing’s street food (“Highway robbery!” declared Hom when
confronted by a vendor selling dumplings at £1 a go), via discussion on the
effects of the cultural revolution on Chinese food (disastrous), the
rehabilitation of proper Peking duck, the opening of China to the West,
rustic country cooking in the ancient village of Chuandixia (dodgy-looking
cornmeal pancakes), then back to uptown Beijing, where the duo dropped in on
the master of Peking duck, the chef Da Dong, to be treated to braised duck
tongue and stir-fried duck heart. Top that, Heston.

“My stomach dictates who I really am,” said Hom, and to prove the point tucked
into a skewered scorpion (or was it a cricket?). Aside from this, the actual
cooking was happily accessible, give or take the occasional brown gloopy
sauce. However, Ken Hom has made a career out of subtle, delicate dishes.
Let’s hope we see some more of these in future episodes – perhaps next week,
when they visit Sichuan, home of spicy peppercorns.