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The Music Kitchen will bathed in the soulful sounds of blues-rock guitar legend, Dan Patlansky. He is a conglomerate of charisma, charm and musical genius – and all of this comes wrapped up in an unassuming, startlingly attractive package. There are no airs and graces here – just sincerity and an incredible musical talent. Dan, together with bass player, Clint Falconer and drummer Andy Maritz, will be appearing at the Music Kitchen, 69 Mangold Street, Newton Park on the 1st and 2nd of June. … [Read more...]

From today – Monday 21 May – the Competition Tribunal will consider a merger between Life Healthcare Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Life Healthcare Group Holdings Ltd, and Joint Medical Holdings Limited. Life Healthcare is one of the three largest private health care groups in South Africa. Its facilities include hospitals, rehabilitation units, occupational health clinics and facilities that care for chronically ill patients. Joint Medical Holdings, the target in this merger, owns five … [Read more...]

A wall has fallen over, injuring workers on Marine Drive. The wall is on the Humewood Beach side of the Barneys Pub, Shark Rock Pier. One worker was killed and second badly injured. Eye on Community Editor’s Notes: The stone wall fell over whilst workers were excavating a trench to lay cables to carry telephone and bandwidth traffic. Am I being unfair by saying that I can already seeing lawyers getting rich as the various contractors, sub-contractors and municipal authorities point fingers at … [Read more...]

Last week the Voyage for Cleaner Energy 2041 yacht, skippered by Conor Fogerty, stopped over in Port Elizabeth as a safe haven to wait out the particularly bad weather pattern that hit our coastline on 18 May 2012. See: 2041 Voyage for Cleaner Energy Yacht’s Unscheduled PE Stop. Conor and his crew slipped moorings from the ABYC and left Port Elizabeth today at 14h30 on their way down to Cape Town and are confident that they will make landfall on 20 June 2012 in Rio De Janeiro – hold … [Read more...]

The Coega Development Corporation today welcomed the news of the signing of a Joint Study Agreement (JSA) between PetroSA and The Chinese Petrochemical Corporation (The Sinopec Group), the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) state-owned integrated energy and chemical conglomerate. The study will shape the business case for Project Mthombo, the initiative to construct a world-class crude oil refinery at the Coega Industrial Development Zone. The study will be divided into two parts. The first … [Read more...]

The hard-fought Nelson Mandela Bay Vodacom League derby between the city’s best answer to long term Premier Soccer League (PSL) participation, Bay Stars, and Highbury delivered an anti-climax when the scoreboard was still stuck on 0 – 0 after 90 minutes. Bay Stars will now take on FC Buffalo in East London this Saturday before returning for the last Vodacom League match against Mthatha Bucks on 2 June at the Gelvandale Stadium. Prior to this goalless draw, Bay Stars had won every home match. … [Read more...]

The Cape High Court last week held that some sections of the Sexual Offences Act did not have any punitive measures nor any stipulated punishment clauses, leaving our children to the mercy of sexual predators who will take advantage of this gross and incompetent omission. The Act doesn’t have penalties for sexual assault, child pornography, and incest, sexual exploitation of children or “grooming” of children for sexual exploitation. How on earth can this act be a deterrent without … [Read more...]

Out of the top 64 blog posts mentioning Port Elizabeth that we looked at today we selected 11 blogs that mention Port Elizabeth for our showcase below. MyPE provides this roundup in order to promote Port Elizabeth and to encourage fellow bloggers to expand their coverage of Port Elizabeth and surrounds. MyPE extends grateful thanks to bloggers and online media  for their continued excellent coverage of Port Elizabeth and our events. … [Read more...]

We have PICKED out a few Tweets from the 746 members of the Port Elizabeth Twitterati lists for your reading pleasure below – if you are signed into Twitter you can reply right from here. MyPE sweats the k*k stuff so you can see the good stuff. Don’t forget to follow MyPE on Twitter. Kuyabanda e Parsons Hillabout 3 hours ago via NewsForward for BlackBerryReplyRetweetFavorite Loving this cold weather! Only problem is it leads to an obscene amount of eating. Oh wait, that's splendid as well … [Read more...]

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This past weekend saw South African LGBTI groups march in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth in protest against the proposal of the Council of Traditional Leaders brought before Parliament’s Constitutional Review Committee asking to remove the constitutional provision protecting individuals from being discriminated against on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity as well as the Traditional Courts Bill. The right to sexual orientation, along with numerous … [Read more...]

EP Triathlon champion, Dan Howitz of Bluewater Bay, Port Elizabeth added to his great performances of season with two outstanding races at this year’s KentonXtreme Festival held over the past weekend at Kenton-on-Sea. Howitz, who is hard at training for his upcoming overseas events, won Saturday’s Sunshine Coast SPAR Off Road Triathlon in a fast time of 1hr 37min and 12sec with East London’s Trevor Jordan in 2nd place and Uitenhage’s Willie Kruger 3rd overall. Local sports star Kerry … [Read more...]

The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality is currently working to restore water supply to the Despatch and Khayamnandi areas after a leaking main supply pipeline caused an interruption to supply. Work is progressing well at this stage and workers are attempting to restore supply as soon as possible but unfortunately no timeframe is available at this stage. The affected areas are Manor Heights, Campher Park, Bothasrus, Reservoir Hills, Khayamnandi, Izinyoka and parts of Heuwelkruin. Tankers are … [Read more...]

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