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Kylie Jefferson (left) and Ashleigh Parkin with gorgeous Swarovski crystal jewellery from Jenni Collections. Picture: Mike Holmes FEBRUARY is the month of love and nothing says “I treasure you” quite like a trove of beautiful jewellery!  Weekend Post and Jenni Collections are giving away a whopping R30 000 worth of hand-crafted Swarovski crystal jewellery over the next four months – and your first shot at the prizes starts tomorrow (Saturday), just in time for Valentine’s Day on … [Read more...]

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VALENTINE’S Day is hurtling towards us and whatever your plans, few options beat a romantic night out to celebrate the day of love. But if the budget is a little tight this month then Weekend Post has a solution – enter our competition and you could win a meal voucher for two people at any one of seven Nelson Mandela Bay restaurants! The seven participating restaurants are: Bayside Pantry, Yi Pin, News Cafe, Dulce, El Greco, Squires and Leonardo’s, all at the Boardwalk in Summerstrand in … [Read more...]

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Lara Kirsten has stirred up the small community of Hogsback with her nude biking antics. Picture: Francois le Roux By Barbara Hollands A LEISURELY bike ride in the buff down Hogsback’s main street on a lazy Friday afternoon by local concert pianist, poet and self-confessed “free spirit” Lara Kirsten has stirred up a storm in a C-cup in the arty mountain village. Kirsten, 32, Hogsback’s own “Lady Godiva”, raised the ire of some fellow residents when she set off on her naked ride down … [Read more...]

GET your copy of Weekend Post on Saturday January 21 for these and other top stories: Royal delight for Kings Plett Italtile air crash scandal ‘Lady Godiva’ of Hogsback causes stir Desperate pupils flee East for West Cape in droves Shock new R1.3bn land claim find Advertisement … [Read more...]

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By Shaun Gillham A GROUP of Nelson Mandela Bay residents, businesses and a church are rallying in a bid to halt the erection of a cellphone company tower and base station in upmarket Walmer. Cell C intends putting up the tower in Water Road, on a parcel of land to be rented from the Walmer Bowling Club, situated directly behind the Walmer town hall and library and directly opposite St John the Baptist Anglican Church’s retirement complex.  Cell C, which could not be reached for comment this … [Read more...]

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DURING a special council meeting today (Tuesday) the Nelson Mandela Bay Council pledged their support to the families of three ANC ward councillors who died in a taxi accident on Sunday. The three, along with 11 other Nelson Mandela Bay councillors, were travelling to Port Elizabeth from East London after attending lectures at the Fort Hare University campus when the accident took place. The group spent most of last week at the university and were all first-year students in a Local Government … [Read more...]

By Yolandé Stander SPACE is so limited at some rural Eastern Cape schools that up to three teachers are simultaneously teaching different subjects in a single classroom. This is among the shock findings made by the provincial Education Department’s portfolio committee following an inspection of schools in Cofimvaba, Lady Frere and Queenstown in the Chris Hani District this week. Education experts have reacted with outrage and dismay to the committee’s findings, calling the situation … [Read more...]

By Shaun Gillham SOUTH African tennis legend Bob Hewitt has been questioned by police over the alleged abuse of underage girls in the 1970s and 1980s and it is expected the probe will be concluded “within weeks”. The latest development in the decades-long controversy comes after one of Hewitt’s alleged victims finally laid a complaint with Gauteng police, who this month launched an official investigation into the 71-year-old’s alleged sexual abuse of young tennis players during his … [Read more...]

By Shaanaaz de Jager A SHOCKED Port Elizabeth couple are still mystified after builders discovered a badly decomposed body in a brick flower bed at their Bluewater Bay home. Now police are searching for two former tenants who lived at the house in 2008, in the hope they might shed some light on the bizarre case. The body, clothed in denim shorts and a khaki jacket, was covered by a blanket. Initial indications were that it was that of a white male. Robert White and his wife Leni could not … [Read more...]