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The ANC in the Northern Cape has confirmed discussions with the Sol Plaatje Municipality concerning its proposed electricity tariff structure that has come under widespread condemnation from residents. The party’s secretary Deshi Ngxanga announced that a meeting has been held. “The leadership has met with the administrative and political…

The gemstone and jewellery industries have forever been yearning for something anew. Imagine having a personal connection with your bling creator? Yes indeed; you being adorned in jewellery that is custom-made. Imagine having to purchase a diamond that you would have had the liberty of exchanging ideas on its brilliant cutting with a diamantaire?…

Wine drinking has always been associated with an upper class lifestyle of the pre-meal sip, during meal nutrients enhancer and the overall post-meal merrymaker. Wine not for all of society and the expansion of the consumption base in a South Africa and Northern Cape with a growing black middle class? It is a double thumbs up for young…

Northern Cape’s MEC for Education Martha Bartlett has tabled her department’s budget vote with a firm focus on reinforcing quality teaching and effective learning. From the department’s budgetary allocation of over six billion rand (R6, 4 billion), various school based programmes have been adopted aimed at reinforcing a culture of learning and…

PRESS RELEASE • PETRA DIAMONDS / KEM-JV • 31 MAY  2018 VIOLENCE AGAINST MINE SECURITY BY ILLEGAL MINERS – GREENPOINT, KIMBERLEY, SOUTH AFRICA Over the course of the last week, a number of incidents of violence by a small group of illegal miners in the Greenpoint area in Kimberley (“the Greenpoint illegal miners”) directed at Kimberley Ekapa…

Indigent households in Kimberley are being ripped off by third party vendors such as tuckshops in the selling of electricity. Despite the Sol Plaatje Municipality having granted relief through the provision of free 50kWh per month to the individual indigent household; the tuckshops selling electricity within their living spaces are setting them…

Northern Cape Premier Sylvia Lucas has endorsed one of the Northern Cape’s topmost mining ventures for having sparked 3000 job opportunities on the outskirts of the town of Aggeneys in the Khai Ma Municipality in the Namaqua district. The inter-related mining activities at the Gamsberg zinc mine which is worth an investment of six billion rand…