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ROCK STAR: A blow to Carla Germishuys’s face left her with two black eyes and a swollen nose when she was attacked during a hike with her boyfriend on Wednesday January 20 Photo: Alistair Hill
In June 2013, CXPRESS Garden Route Newspaper celebrated 15 years of bringing news, views and entertainment to local residents and visitors – an apt time indeed to strengthen our online presence with this bright new website.
Whereas space is always at a premium in our hard-copy publication, the opposite is true for cyber space and we invite you to make the best of this user-friendly opportunity to share your stories and photos with us. CXPRESS is published and distributed every week on a Wednesday, but at www.cxpress.co.za you can submit news any day of the week. When we run out of time or space on newsprint, this forum provides the perfect spot to include the many extra stories and images received. Now get typing – we're looking forward to hearing from you!
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26 Feb 2020 Drugs worth R11,000 confiscated just outside GeorgeCONCERTED efforts by the police to root out the illegal distribution of drugs in the Southern Cape yielded positive results, with Mandrax tablets with an estimated street value of R11,000 were confiscated on the N2 highway near George on Saturday February 22 at about 4:45pm.
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12 Feb 2020 DA responds to ANC’s response to DA’s response to forensic investigation report…ON Tuesday morning, Bill Nel of the DA responded on social media to the ANC’s retort, saying that the DA statement of February 8 “was based on facts from the forensic report to ensure transparency; the ANC reply of the 9th, true to form, was fragrant with angry political rhetoric and...
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22 Jan 2020 New Knysna Fire Chief has climbed the career ladder from inside municipalityKNYSNA Municipality congratulates Ian Bezuidenhout, a born and bred local, on his appointment as Chief Fire Officer.
“Mr Bezuidenhout has worked very hard to attain this position,” said municipal manager Dr Sitembele Vatala. “He started as a volunteer firefighter in 1998 and signed a...
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10 Dec 2019 Western Cape Province gets ahead of the curve on countrywide loadsheddingTHIS morning I received a briefing on the situation in the province from our Provincial Disaster Management Teams and from Eskom. This follows the severe current loadshedding, which necessitated me calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to urgently undertake a range of measures to ensure he takes...
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27 Nov 2019 SkyRun’s the limit for feisty local trailieThese images provide some notion of the challenge that is SkyRun - read the full story on Lourika Pienaar’s recent mountain run adventure on page 12 of the November 27 edition. Credit for the ‘crossing barriers’ photo - in which Lourika ducks through a fence with care not to puncture the...
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