Your newspaper, FREE OF CHARGE Rhino verdict triumph for EC KC Old Girls net the win SAVING WATER IS URGENT My best water saving tip: keep a bucket/jug handy in the kitchen to catch your vegetable water after cooking, allow to cool and water your pot plants with it, excellent for your plants. - Donna Parkins Send your best water saving tip to 22 March 2019 • Vol. 149 Issue: 010 [email protected] CREATIVE SPIRIT A child waits for ‘customers’ at a make-believe shop she’s set up from rubbish dumped on an empty plot near her home, while staff and parents of children of St Mary’s Development and Day Care Centre clean up the area on Tuesday 19 March. It was the first step in a recycling initiative led by Social Work intern Liziwe Pepese. ‘My brief was to engage the community in something that would help its growth and development,’ said the St Mary’s intern. ‘I hope this project will restore a sense of responsibility towards our environment, our people as well as our animals. 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Kneeling: Bonisile Mapu, Nomakula January, Nombulelo Mkele, Nobelungu Chrisjan, and wages to your contract or Mxolisi Tabata. Kneeling in front: Mnyamezeli Mashiyi, Branch Secretary. Photo: Stephen Kisbey-Green casual labourers’ personal bank accounts Botanical Gardens drugs link Record number of parties to RESPONSES IN in student abduction case contest election GRAHAMSTOWN By SUE MACLENNAN Makhanda on Monday 11 March, al- Voters will be faced with their biggest choice yet in a national election after 28/02/2019 – 07/03/2019 egular rendezvous between most a year after the alleged incident, a record number of 48 political parties met the legal requirements to contest House Break-ins - 7 students and their dagga sup- first accused Jamie de Jager denied this year’s elections, the Electoral Commission (IEC) said in a media release. Disturbances - 3 plier in the Makana Botanical everything, and suggested instead This is 19 more parties than contested the 2014 national elections. The par- RGardens, allegations of a detective’s that Morley’s testimony was fabricat- ties which will contest the national elections (in alphabetical order) are: vendetta and questions about se- ed to support the detective’s efforts to curity camera footage from Pepper have him convicted. AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY AFRICAN CONGRESS OF DEMOCRATS Grove mall have provided colourful De Jager denied abducting Morley AFRICAN CONTENT MOVEMENT AFRICAN COVENANT WE OFFER testimony in the case of the alleged or forcing him to smoke drugs. How- AFRICAN DEMOCRATIC CHANGE AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS • 24hr Monitoring kidnapping and robbery of a Rhodes ever, he spoke about a second student AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION • Alarm Installations student in April 2018. whose allegations against him and AFRICAN RENAISSANCE UNITY AFRICAN SECURITY CONGRESS Just over two weeks ago, the court AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT AFRIKAN ALLIANCE OF SOCIAL DEMOCRATS • Services and repairs to all Du Plessis mirrored those of Morley. finally heard Rhodes University stu- Additional counts of kidnapping AGANG SOUTH AFRICA AL JAMA-AH makes of alarm systems dent Ryan Morley’s shocking testi- and robbery against De Jager and ALLIANCE FOR TRANSFORMATION FOR ALL AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION • Armed Response mony in which he described being Du Plessis were withdrawn when the BETTER RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION BLACK FIRST LAND FIRST • Guards abducted in the Makhanda (Graham- second alleged victim failed to ar- CAPITALIST PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICA CHRISTIAN POLITICAL MOVEMENT • Access control (gate stown) CBD at knifepoint and taken rive at court to testify. In that case, COMPATRIOTS OF SOUTH AFRICA CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE to a house near Albany Road, where DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE DEMOCRATIC LIBERAL CONGRESS automation, intercoms and De Jager had been identified in foot- he said he was forced to smoke drugs. age from security cameras at Pepper ECONOMIC EMANCIPATION FORUM ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS cameras) In his account of what happened Grove Mall. FORUM 4 SERVICE DELIVERY FREE DEMOCRATS • Electric Fencing on the night of 11 April 2018, Morley De Jager had known that second FRONT NASIONAAL/FRONT NATIONAL GOOD • Cash in Transit said he’d been held against his will student, he said. “He usually sent me INDEPENDENT CIVIC ORGANISATION OF SOUTH INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY and instructed to call his parents or a to buy dagga and we used to smoke INTERNATIONAL REVELATION CONGRESS LAND PARTY Securing Kenton on Sea/ friend to send money. together,” De Jager said through the MINORITY FRONT NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY Bushman's River/Cannon Rocks/ Among the more vivid details Mor- court translator. In Afrikaans, he NATIONAL PEOPLES AMBASSADORS NATIONAL PEOPLE'S FRONT Boknes Areas ley shared was that the name of the said, “I would usually meet him at PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE For advice or a free quote first accused, Jamie de Jager, had the botanical gardens.” PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT POWER OF AFRICANS UNITY been written in red paint on the wall SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS PARTY SA MAINTANANCE & ESTATE BENEFICIARIES ASSOCIATION contact André Wille The Makana Botanical Gardens, De of the room where he’d been held, Jager said, was where he’d also met SA NATIONAL CONGRESS OF TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT Tel: 046 636 1667 and that the second accused, Andre Morley. “That’s where they call me to VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS WOMEN FORWARD du Plessis, had swung a rock in a sock bring them dagga,” said De Jager. to intimidate him. In the men’s last appearance, the He’d waited for the men to fall defence questioned details of the LIKE US EMERGENCY asleep before fleeing barefoot and identity parade in which De Jager empty handed from the house in the and Du Plessis were identified as sus- ON FACEBOOK middle of the night, Morley told the pects. UMBERS court. This time, De Jager claimed the N Testifying in this matter for the GROCOTTS MAIL • Ambulance 10177 detective had a vendetta against him first time in the Regional Court in • Aids Helpline 0800 012322 because of previous acquittals. • AA Rescue 0800 111997 • Medical Rescue 0800 033007 • GHT Child Welfare 046 636 1355 • Electricity 046 603 6036 WEATHER AND A/H 046 603 6000 046 603 6300 • Eskom 086 014 00014 WEATHER & TIDES • Fire Brigade 046 622 4444 TIDES • Ght Police Station 046 603 9152 FRIDAY 15 MARCH MONDAY THURSDAY Partly Sunny. Moderate ESE wind. Rain. Moderate SSW wind. Rain. Moderate SSW wind. • Hi-Tec 046 636 1660 Temperature: Min 16°C Max 23°C Temperature: Min 12°C Max 21°C Temperature: Min 6°C Max 20°C • Raphael Centre 046 622 8831 Tides: low tides 10:53 23:02 Tides: low tide 12:21 Tides: low tides 01:42 14:42 • SPCA 064 820 8496 high tides 04:50 16:57 high tides 06:13 18:23 high tides 08:27 20:58 • Traffic Services 046 603 6067 • Water 046 603 6136 SATURDAY TUESDAY FRIDAY • Hospice 046 622 9661 Partly cloudy. Light ENE wind. Rain. Light SE wind. Mostly sunny. ESE wind. • Settlers Hospital 046 602 5000 Temperature: Min 16°C Max 28°C Temperature: Min 11°C Max 20°C Temperature: Min 10°C Max 22°C • Day Hospital 046 622 3033 Tides: low tides 11:21 23:27 Tides: low tides 00:23 12:56 Tides: low tides 03:05 16:44 • Fort England 046 602 2300 high tides 05:16 17:24 high tides 06:46 18:59 high tides 10:11 23:20 • Legal Aid SA 046 622 9350 • Locksmith (Sean Butterworth) SUNDAY WEDNESDAY 082 556 9975 or Cloudy. Light Westerly wind. Partly cloudy. Light Easterly wind. 046 622 4592 Temperature: Min 18°C Max 31°C Temperature: Min 13°C Max 29°C Temperatures and tides were correct • Guardmed 073 065 6660 Tides: low tides 11:50 23:54 Tides: low tides 00:56 13:39 at the time of going to press high tides 05:43 17:53 high tides 07:27 19:44 Grocott’s Mail 22 MARCH 2019 NEWS 3 Urgent court bid launched against Eskom cuts By SUE MACLENNAN cuts would have dire conse- are also named in their official equitable share be ring-fenced stroy Grahamstown’s economy.” to Eskom this month.