Keith Hollis (Leisure Isle) and Ralph Stander (Hornlee) spoke at the Ward 9 public participation meeting (held in Hornlee) regarding the proposed public drinking areas during the holiday season. Although both men made several sensible points, the body language of the public suggests disagreement before beginning i.e. whites on one side of the hall, coloureds on the other.
Read the full article...It had been 22 months since we’d taken kids to Leisure Isle in Knysna so it was high time we returned to its magnificent Bollard Bay Beach and Kingfisher Creek. There were 18 kids and 8 of us adults. As the tide was just turning, we still had time to take the short cut to Kingfisher’s Creek (the beach on the other side that faces Thesen Islands), around the bend via the sandy shore and beautiful, beachfront houses. Sea lettuce and moss accompanied our footsteps much of the way. From … Read the full article…
Tonight, New Year’s Eve, will find Knysna Municipality placing a roadblock at the entrance to the affluent suburb of Leisure Isle in order to search for, and confiscate, alcohol. No matter the reasoning, this will only inflame recent racial tension, especially considering that there was alcohol at Carols by Candlelight, a mostly white attended event. We have to handle things better than this otherwise they will explode at some stage and the situation will become worse than before. “LIRA (Leisure Isle Ratepayers’ Association) wishes to notify residents, your visitors and … Read the full article…
I was at another function but people have told me that the weather was perfect at Leisure Isle Festival today – happy for them! Well done to all you stall holders who added colour to the the lives of people in Knysna. Hoping that the public found great bargains and good family fun. Biggest shout out to the festival organisers for raising money for charity again!
Read the full article...I had one of my readers contact me to say how weird she felt bumping into Kyle Maspero on Leisure Isle whilst “Racy” was in jail and “Rosie” was dead. Coincidentally, some mates and i had also bumped into him a week before that, also on Leisure Isle, at Green Hole – he and his foster father, Martin Hatchuel, were taking their dogs for a walk. Kyle Maspero and his girlfriend, Phoenix Theron, were accused of killing her mother, Rosemary Theron, in Cape Town in 2013. Phoenix has since confessed … Read the full article…
“You’re going to die, kaffir,” repeated Uncle Steven, more as a wish than a statement, to the black man dying on the ground behind the supermarket that was part of our everyday lives in the suburbs outside Durban. My teen self was caught between horrors. The first was the poor man who had been stabbed so many times with a short tool or knife that i battled to count all the holes in his shirt through which lung bubbles escaped with blood.
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