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Zamandulo Malonde is a features features and general news reporter for The Herald and Weekend Post, covering lifestyle, arts, entertainment and human interest and general stories in the Eastern Cape.

Neil Jonker demonstrates the art of breadmaking to those that attended his sourdough breadmaking course during the Winter Wild Coast Family Festival in Chintsa last weekend.

Bread-making helps sculptor get over artistic block

Those attending the inaugural Winter Wild Coast Family Festival in Chintsa last weekend were able to participate in a sourdough bread-making workshop given by Western Cape-based sculptor and artisanal bread maker Neil Jonker.

Mover & Shaker: Businesswoman Francine Zana cleans up the competition

Eastern Cape domestic cleaner-turned-businesswoman, Francine Zana’s life is an inspiring tale of determination and resilience.

‘Back to the Future’ debuted at this year’s Umtiza Arts Festival and received raving reviews

Fun and learning as East London Museum goes ‘Back to the Future’

Young theatre enthusiasts have the opportunity to join Doc and Marty on a quest through time and space as they travel “Back to the Future” on Saturday.

Kunjani Podcast hosts, from left, Mzwanele Bennie, Luvuyo Windvoel and Philiswa Vutha-Mtombeni

Motherwell trio promotes positive vibes on air

To play their part in creating a positive society, a Motherwell trio started a podcast to uplift, recognise and expose talented residents in Gqeberha to the world.

Music, poetry, comedy kick off Mandela Bay Arts Festival

Music, poetry, theatre and dance are on the menu for arts lovers in Gqeberha as the inaugural Mandela Bay Arts Festival kicks off on Friday.

Stedin College founder Nhlanhla Khambule

Game on for Heritage Day

Heritage Day celebrations in Nelson Mandela Bay schools are typically symbolised by attire and staple foods that represent SA’s cultural diversity but Stedin College is taking it a step further, celebrating indigenous games that formed an…

Modelling ‘oldies’ show they can still rule the runway

A group of Nelson Mandela Bay women who modelled together decades ago reunited on Saturday to show that they still have what it takes to turn heads on the runway.

Helping women keep the dream alive

Women often neglect their own dreams to take care of those around them.

Vibrant celebration of diverse heritage

Ebubeleni Music Festival organisers are bringing out the big guns and making the 2022 Heritage Day an all-white musical affair in Gqeberha.

Five couples from the Missionvale Care Centre’s dance group bagged a host of medals at the national ballroom championships in Cape Town. Among them were, from left: Paul Mumenya, 13, with  Iminathi James,13, and Vanni Jantjies,14, with Jessica Farrett, 19

Missionvale’s budding ballroom dancers off to interprovincial champs

Experience is not always a prerequisite of a person’s performance, as six couples from the Missionvale Care Centre’s ballroom dance group have proved, having been selected to compete in the interprovincial championship in Komani next…

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Couple’s terrifying realisation baby was snatched from trolley

The balloon the little girl had been playing with in the shopping trolley was still moving.That was how a Bloemendal couple could tell their daughter was not far away.

All that remains of the shack engulfed by fire in New Brighton early on Monday morning

Three little lives lost in shack inferno

When a frantic mother rushed to the door of her burning shack, her three young children still inside, she expected to hear screaming.

Collegiate Girls’ High School hosted award-winning SA playwright Mike van Graan on Monday. He held a workshop with the school’s Further Studies English class on the role of the artist in SA and globally, and also showed one of his films. Attending were Abigail Lacey, 17, left, and Lisakhanya Mdliva, 18

Collegiate hosts award-winning playwright Mike Van Graan

As the world asks that the role of the artist in society be explained, SA playwright Mike Van Graan says the more pertinent question is what the role of society is towards artists.

St Francis’s sensational swimming sisters conquer Britain

A pair of talented St Francis Bay sisters left the competition in their wake at the Great Britain Surf Lifesaving Championships, with one claiming the title of Iron Lady and the other placing on the podium in various categories.

Pupils from Masiphathisane Senior Secondary School outperformed their peers from nine other schools in the Udumo One Act Play Competition for High Schools, held in Gqeberha

Motherwell school’s drama newbies win big

Two weeks — that is all a group of talented Masiphathisane Senior Secondary School pupils had to rehearse their stellar theatre performance.