Mossel Bay Advertiser
Mosselbaai groei wat sê Dawie Roodt?
Suiwer ekonomies is ontwikkeling gewoonlik ’n goeie ding, solank die infrastuktuur dit kan dra; en die mark sal besluit wanneer is genoeg genoeg. Hierdie is van die punte wat die nasionaal bekende ekonoom, Dawie Roodt, hierdie week tydens ’n gesprek...
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Mossel Bay opts out of Blue Flag
Fourteen beaches across the Garden Route received Blue Flag status for the 2026/27 season - but none of these are in Mossel Bay. The Mossel Bay Municipality says this is because it did not pursue Blue Flag status, and opted instead to apply the...
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A blow to Garden Route economy
With the petrol cost at a record high for the country, Garden Route communities must also contend with the burden of potentially crippling economic pressures that are set to affect food prices, transport costs, multiple business industries, and even...
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Tiener glo met 50 foto’s gevang
’n 18-jarige seun van Hartenbos is gisteroggend, Donderdag 1 Oktober, op aanklagte van die besit van kinderpornografie asook die blootstelling van ’n kind aan pornografie gearresteer. Mosselbaai se eenheid vir gesinsgeweld, kinderbeskerming en...
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Development deadlock
Aalwyndal, at one stage viewed as one of the possible main urban expansion areas for Mossel Bay, seems to be in a sort of development deadlock. A biodiversity study that commenced in May 2024 stands at the centre of this issue - and residents say they...
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Trek saam vir WÊRELDTOUTREK
Teen laat Saterdagmiddag, 19 September, sou sowat 1 600 pare toutrekstewels hul hakke op die ATKV Hartenbos-amfiteater se velde ingeslaan het. Dit is omdat 16 lande se nasionale en klubspanne sedert Woensdag al aan die klub- en...
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An apple a day builds a community
The vision to feed their community fruit while teaching its learners to grow food and care for the environment led to Ridgeview Primary School planting its very first fruit tree on Wednesday 9 September, as part of its new garden project. This...
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Diaz Beach reopening bid moves to court
An urgent application seeking an interim interdict that would allow Mossel Bay Municipality to start stabilising Diaz Beach’s dunes has been initiated. This is according to the municipality’s mayor, Dirk Kotzé, in response to Mossel Bay Advertiser’s...
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17 years for 2-time rapist, robber
At the tail end of Women’s Month, a team of five Mossel Bay women, including one brave rape survivor, worked through the legal system to ensure a two-time rapist received a hefty sentence of 17 years’ imprisonment. The Thembalethu Regional Court...
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Welfare crisis looms
As an ongoing animal welfare crisis on a pig farm in Kwanonqaba threatens to reach breaking point, several farmers have said they are doing their best to look after their animals in conditions that are almost impossible to manage. The Garden Route...
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Boat owner wants answers
The owner of the boat that was left stranded on Santos Beach for more than two weeks, Wild Cat, has demanded answers as to why it ended up on the beach in the first place. The owner, who provided a breakdown to Mossel Bay Advertiser of the events...
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Swift SAPS success
Speedy action by the Mossel Bay Police and other law enforcement roleplayers led to the arrest of two suspects just hours after an armed robbery at Mozambik Mossel Bay on Tuesday 4 August. The suspects made their first appearance in camera in the...
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Jan en alleman kán hekel
Dis nie aldag dat jy ’n man in ’n trui wat hy sélf gehekel het sien nie. Jan le Roux, ’n inwoner van Island View, is só ’n man. Hy is 76 jaar jonk en het in die winter van ongeveer 1961 al begin hekel - daardie jaar was hy ’n plattelandse jongeling...
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New hand at the NSRI helm
The National Sea Rescue Institute’s (NSRI) Station 15 Mossel Bay officially has a new hand at the helm. Station 15’s former deputy, Brian Cloete, was recently appointed the station commander, taking over this leadership role from two-term commander JC...
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242 ‘affordable’ houses empty
More than 80% of Mountain View’s First Home Finance (FHF) units in Mossel Bay are currently unoccupied, the Western Cape Department of Infrastructure (DOI) confirmed this week. This is not due to a lack of interest in the 242 unoccupied houses, but...
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“My hart is só seer”
“My hart is só seer.” Dit is die woorde van Flip April, pa van die 17-jarige Diego Wessels, wat op Saterdag 27 Junie wreed doodgesteek is. Lede van die Mosselbaai-gemeenskap het Woensdagaand, 1 Julie, in Rosebudstraat, D’almeida, bymekaargekom vir ’n...
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3rd, 4th, maybe 5th time lucky?
How easy is it to pass the new computerised learner’s licence test (CLLT)? From scores of residents in the greater Mossel Bay area and some surrounding areas, the resounding response is: almost impossible. Mossel Bay Advertiser asked its readers on a...
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Who were they? Hartland graves remain a mystery
The mystery surrounding an unknown historic cemetery uncovered during the construction at Hartland Lifestyle Estate near Hartenbos remains unsolved. The public participation process is now completed, but no relatives or descendants have been...
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Demolish or revive?
Will the old landmark, the power station at Little Brak River, be demolished or rejuvenated into a community centre? Its future currently hangs in the balance. This is according to the minutes of the open council meeting on 30 April, published in the...
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DAYS OF UNREST
A protest against illegal foreigners held in Asla Park, Mossel Bay, on Friday 29 May erupted in violence. Extra police resources have since been deployed to the town. More than 55 informal homes were set alight over the weekend and two Mozambican men...
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Chess player makes big moves
Although she is somewhat shy at first, Hope-lynique Smith (11) immediately grows confident once she sits down behind a chessboard. Playing a few friendly games of chess, first against her teacher, Cadi Walker, and then her proud father, Enrico Smith,...
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DIAZ BEACH The rush to restore it
With structures and homes precariously positioned along the crumbling dunes of Diaz Beach, a local landscape architect has emphasised the rush to repair the damage on the primary dune and restore it before the situation worsens. The Mossel Bay...
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First for SA Seal positive with avian flu
In a first for Mossel Bay, and reportedly the country, a seal captured from The Point in April has tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). The seal was captured by Stranded Marine Animal Rescue Team (Smart) volunteers and the...
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Vlak 1 outisme: ‘Normaal’, maar tog ook nie
Donnagene Fourie se een wens vir haar seun, DB (14), en haar gesin is dat mense kon verstaan dat nie alle gestremdhede sigbaar is nie. “’n Kind met vlak 1 outisme is nie ongeskik nie, hulle ervaar die wêreld net anders. ’n Bietjie geduld, sagtheid en...
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Eyewitness recounts tragic De Bakke Drowning
An eyewitness who was camping at De Bakke and witnessed the drowning tragedy of two teenagers from Mossel Bay described the scene as being terrible. Bianca van der Merwe says the rescuers attempted to revive the 18-year-old Nqobile Ncikana on Saturday...
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Rock-ikone in Mosselbaai
Jy kan dalk nog daarmee wegkom om hulle te vloek, maar moenie hulle oud noem nie! Só meen Steve Ashley (77) oor homself en Brian le Gassick (82). Hierdie twee legendes is die spreekwoordelike last men standing van The Staccatos, wat amptelik erken...
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Illegal connections tohdedslceor’usrlgife pcelarismisetsd
A tragic death in Kwanonqaba has once again highlighted the dangers of illegal and exposed electricity connections within informal settlements. The two-year-old Incenceba Konzani died earlier this month from being electrocuted by a live wire while...
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Local runner takes on Antarctica
From the quiet farmlands of Herbertsdale outside Mossel Bay to the frozen expanse of Antarctica, local Tania Jeken (36) has proven that adventure knows no bounds. Jeken recently took part in the half-marathon of the Antarctica Marathon, in one of the...
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End of an era
In the space of one week, Mossel Bay had to bid farewell to two well-known veteran detectives and three equally well-known provincial traffic officers. With 67 years in the police service between them, and having investigated thousands of cases,...
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All aboard!
In a historic moment for Mossel Bay, a steam locomotive took the railway tracks between Hartenbos and Mossel Bay last Thursday, 19 March - the first time in 16 years. The 96-year-old locomotive was saved from the scrapyard in 2016 and was beautifully...
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Baby dumped in bag
How the body of a newborn baby ended up among heaps of rubbish at the Mossel Bay transfer station is still the subject of investigation. Meanwhile, Mossel Bay Advertiser reached out to ACVV Social Services and the Department of Health and Wellness to...
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Groen lig
Die herstelwerk aan die verhitte swembad by die Hartenbos Seefront is in die finale fases. Beide die Seefront en die ATKV Hartenbos het bevestig die swembad sal inderdaad weer geopen word. Lees meer hieroor op bladsy 2.
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4 maande, 221 slange
As dit vir jou voel of daar hierdie somer meer gesis as gesels in Mosselbaai is, verbeel jy jou dit nié. Van November tot nou het die Slangboere altesaam 221 slange in en om Mosselbaai gevang - en ja, dit is net dié wat die mense raakgesien het....
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Ocean bed in jeopardy
sinkers and 600 hooks collected from Mossel Bay’s waters during clean-ups over a period of three years, this is just one dire aspect of several critical issues facing not just the marine life in our bay, but waters across the globe.
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Give us a station - Herbertsdale residents
With only two police officers stationed at the Herbertsdale Satellite Police Station and the Kwanonqaba Police Station being almost 50km away, the Herbertsdale community have said they feel largely forgotten by the SAPS. These community members...
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New cases of foot-and-mouth disease suspected
Following the confirmation of foot-andmouth disease (FMD) in cattle tested on a dairy farm near Hartenbos on Wednesday 11 February, new suspected cases have arisen. This is according to a joint statement released by the Garden Route District...
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School run or death ride?
Local parents have raised their concerns over learner transport safety in Mossel Bay following recent incidents of a grossly overloaded minibus taxi transporting children to Mossel Bay schools and video footage showing a school bus travelling with its...
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Kniediep in droogte
Die Mosselbaai-distrik se boere kan hulself maar vir ’n veel moeiliker komende produksieseisoen voorberei indien die huidige droogtetoestande sou voortduur. Volgens die besturende direkteur van Optimal Agricultural Business Systems (Oabs), dr. Hamman...
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Mossel Bay tightens its taps
Assuming the water consumption remains constant and there is no rainfall, Mossel Bay is currently left with about 380 days of water. This is based on the average daily consumption - 25.87 million litres - measured during November 2025, said the...
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Mosselbaai BRAND
Die veldbrand wat op Maandag 5 Januarie in Mosselbaai begin het, het tonele van wydgesaaide verwoesting in verskeie woondele tot gevolg gehad. Die brand het sy ontstaan langs die N2 naby Kwanonqaba gehad en Dinsdag na Aalwyndal, Island View en...
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Só deel jy roomys!
Wanneer laas het jy ’n roomys in iemand se gesig gedruk? Of een in jóú gesig gehad? Ons daag jou uit om hierdie vakansie die kind in jou hart minstens een keer los te laat en só iets te probeer! ’n Roomys of ander kinderlike vreugde gaan nie alle...
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Mossel Bay twins welcome babies on their birthday
For their 32nd birthday on Tuesday 9 December, identical twin sisters Karla van der Linde and Theandi Esterhuizen received extra special gifts: both delivered a baby girl at the Life Bay View Private Hospital in Mossel Bay on the same day. Read the...
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Dino’s duik by Santos op
Dinosourusse? Op Santos?! Sowaar! Matriekbaai is nou allesbehalwe prehistories, maar selfs dinosourusse, of sal ’n mens sê ‘Santosourusse’, is vanjaar by dié partytjieweek wat vir die vierde keer in Mosselbaai gehou is, geïnkorporeer. Hierdie...
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After-effects of wildfire devastating
A search-and-rescue operation for the wildlife caught in the devastating wildfires in the Dana Bay greenbelts on 25 November saw 10 animals rescued, but about 90 found dead. The operation, facilitated by the Dana Bay Conservancy, Wildlife Crime...
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100th birthday celebrations
With her life deeply entrenched in Mossel Bay and parts of its history, Susan Kathleen Johnson celebrated her 100th birthday on Saturday 15 November. A birthday celebration was held at her home in Santos Haven the day before with family members,...
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Sy is Heiderand se seëlkoningin
’n Inwoner van Heiderand, Marie Schäfer (91), besit waarskynlik die grootste posseëlversameling in die hele Mosselbaai-gebied. Toe Mossel Bay Advertiser haar by haar woning besoek, was dit gou duidelik waarom: sy het letterlik duisende derduisende -...
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Kaskar spoils shared
The funds raised by the four greater Mossel Bay CPFS during the Marsh Street Kaskar Race on 30 August have all gone towards sports balls, which were handed over to six schools in the area. Along with some members of the Kwanonqaba Police Station and...
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Spirit of Kwa is alive and proud
“The idea was simple: let’s unite, clean up and show the world that Kwanonqaba is full of life, pride and good people.” These were the words of Walter Blaq, a Kwanonqaba resident, community activist, podcaster and the driving force behind the Visit...
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Fire halts 10-year milestone
The 35 employees of La Peron Visskerm, which suffered a structural fire on Sunday 12 October, will be supported. This was confirmed by the restaurant’s owners, Dietlof Henn and Dean van der Walt. Henn and Van der Walt told Mossel Bay Advertiser their...
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Hoe staan Mosselbaai se watersake?
Met net drie maande in die jaar oor is die Mosselbaai-gebied tans 248,4 mm onder sy gemiddelde langtermynreënvalsyfer van 435 mm per jaar. Só staan sake tot en met 7 Oktober. Wayne Venter, ’n voorspeller vir die Suid-afrikaanse Weerdiens (SAWD), het...
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Mother’s ‘star of tomorrow’ killed
These were the words of Zizipho Gwangxube, the grieving mother of the oneyear-old Likhwezilomso, who died after he was hit by a minibus taxi while playing with some children in a cul-de-sac in Sukula Street, Kwanonqaba, last Friday afternoon, 26...
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Nasa astronaut lands in Mossel Bay
Aerospace engineer and Nasa astronaut Susan Kilrain (63) touched down in Mossel Bay on Wednesday 17 September as a guest speaker for the Living Maths 2025 Space Tour. Hailing from the United States, Kilrain is one of only three women, and at the age...
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Groot-brak se roosterkoekkoningin
Ella Losper (67) se hande maak al vir net so duskant ’n halfeeu lank roosterkoek. “Ek is ’n Karoonaar, en my ma [Katryna Prins] het my van 18 jaar af geleer roosterkoek braai. Toe mamma dood is, toe vat ek my baby suster [Martha Wyles]; nou ek het...
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Woonstelmoord skok familie
Die familie van die vrou wat in haar Ocean View-woonstel in die middedorp van Mosselbaai vermoor is, sê hulle is geweldig geskok oor die voorval. Polisiebeamptes moes op Maandag 1 September die deur van die woonstel in Crookstraat, waar die slagoffer,...
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Tweede tragedie tref ASLAPARK-GESIN TWEEDE SEUN OOK VERMOOR
’n Sewentienjarige seun wat Sondag noodlottig met ’n mes gesteek is, se ouers beleef ’n tweede moordtragedie - drie jaar na die vorige een. Hagan Brits se ouer broer, Rowano (18), het sy ouers, Hazel Dean Brits en Reginold Everts, vroeg op Sondag 24...
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Nuwe pad beplan
Die Hartenbos Seefront kan binne die volgende jaar of twee ontwikkeling ondergaan. Konstruksie aan ’n nuwe pad parallel met Dalmanutharylaan (wat Paardekraal- en Port Natallaan aan die Atkv-kant van die Seefront verbind) sal ook na verwagting in 2026...
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Van sub A tot sub aftrede
The Mossel Bay man who was attacked and bitten by a Cape fur seal during the late afternoon of Friday 8 August while fishing at Dana Bay's First Beach says he never saw the seal coming. Roger Constance (58) was fishing with a friend when the seal...
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Dog survives gunshot in raid
A two-year-old pit bull from Mossel Bay recently received a new ‘leash’ on life and a brand-new name after a close shave with death - no less than a bullet to the chest. Originally named Meisie, the pit bull was given her new name, Bullet, by her...
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Elephant being monitored
Following the tragic death of Gondwana Private Game Reserve’s CEO and coowner, FC Conradie, on Tuesday 22 July, the reserve’s management has stated that the elephant involved is currently being monitored. Conradie (39), who has been described by those...
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Two found dead next to Louis Fourie
Two men in their 20s were shot and killed in an open field next to Louis Fourie Road in Asla Park, KwaNonqaba on Wednesday night, 16 July. The victims, identified as Aphelele Qhagana (22) and Ayanda Dlongwe (25), sustained multiple gunshot wounds to...
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Mossel Bay mourns Keano Brown (23)
The murder of a 23-year-old Mossel Bay local, Keano Brown, has devastated the community, with messages expressing grief and condolences to his family and friends flooding social media this week. Brown was stabbed in Cob Street, Ext 13, on Sunday...
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Op 91 steeds kaatjie van die gholfbaan
Op 91-jarige ouderdom verwag die wêreld nie meer fisies baie van jou nie, wat nog te sê van drie (soms vier) maal ’n week gholf speel! Annette Meyer word op 12 September 92, en het al sedert die 1970’s ’n passie vir dié spel. Meyer is al meer as 50...
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PA se Prins kraai koning in wyk 9
Die PA het hierdie week met sy oorwinning in wyk 9 sy eerste wyk in Mosselbaai gewen. Volgens die onafhanklike verkiesingskommissie (OVK) het 51,52% van die stemme aan die PA se Luhein Prins (Shorty) gegaan. Wyk 9 was voor dié verkiesing onder...
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Rugbyspeler doodgesteek
Barbarians-rugbyspeler Leroy Koopman (32) is enkele ure voor sy drie kinders op Sondag, 15 Junie, saam met hom Vadersdag kon vier, voor sy grootmaakouma en -oupa se huis op Mosselbaai vermoor. Wat presies tot die voorval in Adriaanslaan aanleiding...
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2 641 plants, plus animal skins seized
A total of 2 641 plants, 516 of which belong to 16 different endangered species, were discovered when the police led a raid of a shipping container in KwaNonqaba, Mossel Bay. This is according to police spokesperson, Sergeant Chris Spies. Leon...
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Danabaai-park - ja of nee?
Danabaai kry dalk in die toekoms ’n gemeenskapspark neffens die OK Grocer in Floraweg. Die erf waarop dit sal wees (sou alles in plek val) se waarde is R9 720 000 en die geskatte ontwikkelingskoste van die park is R5 400 000. Dié aankondiging is met...
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Mikeva fire: What next?
The employees of Mossel Bay’s Mikeva Hyper, which was gutted in a fire on Tuesday, will be supported, it was confirmed in a meeting of management and staff yesterday, Thursday 29 May. Da Gamaskop Police are investigating a case of arson. Brian...
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Father mourns daughter (3)
What began as an afternoon of play ended in heartbreak last week Wednesday, when a three-year-old girl, Okwenam Jakuja, was killed in a hit-and-run accident near her home in Mossel Bay. Okwenam had been playing with a ball alongside her older sister,...
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Parrot takes himself on a play date
A local parrot made his way down to The Point in Mossel Bay, taking himself on an overnight play date at the jungle gym. The 13-week-old African grey parrot had sneakily escaped his temporary home at a pet shop on Saturday morning, 10 May, leaving the...
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Two children die in fire
The 7de Laan community in KwaNonqaba is reeling from the devastating fire that claimed the lives of two young siblings on Monday night and the family has asked for privacy and the space to grieve. The bodies of a nine-year-old boy and 12-year-old girl...
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GouRits-tRaGedie steeds ’n raaisel
Die omstandighede van ’n bootramp wat tussen Saterdag en Sondag, 26 en 27 April, op die see naby Gouritsmond gebeur het - en minstens een lewe geëis het - bly steeds ’n raaisel. Rikus Bester (47) en Robert John Hemphill (58), beide ervare vissermanne,...
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The story of my garden
“I am a farmer by DNA.” Standing among the bountiful rows of vegetables in Farai Munyangadzi's backyard, one would have to agree with this statement he made. Munyangadzi was called an “inspiring agricultural innovator” by Mossel Bay Municipality's...
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BuFFAlo RAlly ‘herd’ hits town
The smell of petrol and a sea of motorcycles filled The Point in Mossel Bay last Saturday, 12 April, with Buffalo Rally bikers waving to the crowds watching from the roadside. The rally took place from Thursday, 10 April to Sunday. Many bikers were...
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Spotlight on development plan
Information sessions on the proposed Louis Fourie Corridor Project drew intense scrutiny and a number of probing questions from the public this week. This development in Mossel Bay is planned for south of Louis Fourie Road, in the area between Flora...
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