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10 GOT A NEWS STORY? Call our news desk on (043) 702-2125. Find us on Facebook 17 December 2020 GO & EXPRESS
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INDEX
DOMESTIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
1010 Births
1040 Engagements
1050 Marriages
1070 Deaths
1100 In Memoriam
1220 Congrats / Best Wishes
1230 Birthday Greetings
1290 Thanks
PERSONAL
2070 Health & Beauty
2140 Lost
2142 Found
ENTERTAINMENT
3060 Entertainment General
SERVICE & SALES GUIDE
5010 Education & Tuition
5090 Plumbing
5100 Electrical Services
5120 Building Services
5122 Home Maintenance
5160 Walls / Fencing
5190 Painting / Decorating
5210 Pools, Spas, Accessories
5260 Computer Services
5360 Garden Services
5451 For Sale
5510 Kennels and Pets
5550 Misc Wanted
5570 Removals and Storage
5630 Services Offered
5640 Shuttle Services
EMPLOYMENT
6140 Education & Training
6150 Employment Wanted
6151 Employment
6170 Estate Agents
6370 Employment Wanted Domestic
ACCOMMODATION
7020 Accomm. Off / Wtd
7060 Flats to Let
7090 Houses to Let
7151 Holiday Accommodation
PROPERTY
8010 Flats For Sale
8050 Houses For Sale
8161 Business Premises To Let
8163 Business Premises For Sale
MOTORING
9070 Used Car Sales
9440 Motorcycles
9381 Motor Sundries
9640 Vehicles Wanted
9200 Used Bakkies / Panelvans
NOTICES
11010 Legal Notices / Auctions
11030 Businesses for Sale
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PERSONAL
2275
Loans & Finance
3
ENTERTAINMENT
Entertainment
General
3060
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SERVICES & SALES
GUIDE
5542
Garage Sales
Cakes | Market | Plants
Garage Sale | Coffee
Tea | Samoosas
Open Garden
19 December 2020
9am to 12pm
Whitehall Flats,
48a St James Rd
Fundraiser in support of
5550
Misc. Wanted
LEE- buy quality
used clothing, bedding,
linen, curtaining, shoes
and much more. Tel:
Lee-Anne 081 789 1291 /
043-7426546.
5560
Repair / Services
FRIDGE REPAIRS Regas
of fridges on site. Contact
Hendrik 072 368
3030.
MINOR WELDING and
steel works contact or
W/A Cobus at 083 955
8894.
5560
Repair / Services
SEWING MACHINE repairs
& services. All makes.
Industrial, domestic. 082
746 6023.
Under R300
CLOTHING for girls aged
6-9 years includes tights,
pyjamas, costumes,
dresses, shorts, long and
short-sleeved T-shirts,
warm tops, etc - more
than 55 items. R299.
Phone 076 481 5489.
SELBORNE COLLEGE
BLAZER: Size 42. Good
condition. R250. Phone
073 158 5877.
5121
Home Improvement
DEREK'S ELECTRICAL:
Fault finding, repairs,
new installations. Prepaid
electricity and water metres
for granny flats supplied
and installed. Call
Derek 082 557 4099.
CLAYBRICKS - Sand,
stone, M6, Sabunga.
083 735 7389.
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LEGALS
5541
11010
Legal Notices
5121
Home Improvement
CEMX BLOCKS & BRICKS
(PTY) LTD: M6 Block
R7,80 each; M4 Block
R7,30 each; Stock Bricks
R2,70 each. Sand per
ton R280; Stone per
ton R400; Sabunga per
ton R280. Prices include
delivery. Contact /
WhatsApp 082 602 1196.
BUILDING PLANS DRAWN
Home & Comm. SACAP.
Large & small - Entire SA.
Kathy 082 939 8131 or
kathy@yourplans.co.za
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ACCOMMODATION
7020
Accomm. Off / Wtd
WEAVERS RETIREMENT
SHAREBLOCK Various
flats To Let or For Sale.
Persons between 50-80.
Call Elaine from 8-2pm
043-7029800 Prices have
been reduced Come see.
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LEGALS
11010
Legal Notices
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RESTRICTED BUDGET?
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Christmas shopping
is a nightmare
If we all discipline ourselves and
stick to Covid-19 protocols, the
alarming spike in infections here
in East London will drop and
with several vaccines now being
rolled out worldwide, we could
be in a better place sooner
rather than later.
Let’s hope and pray that that
is so.
But before that we have
much to contend with and that
includes Christmas shopping.
That truth may not be so startling
to women who generally break
the back of Christmas shopping
while December is still in its
infancy but to wretched males it
means panic.
The wretched male, if he is
average, has not yet bought a
thing. One occasionally meets
the non-average type who, with
condescension, informs us that
he purchased gifts for everyone
including uncles, aunts, nieces
and nephews, way back in
N ove m b e r.
But for the rest of us males
there is misery and misgiving
immediately ahead. We will
shuffle round trying to
remember the size of our wife’s
shoes or our uncle’s taste in
REFLECTIONS
Charles Beningfield
l i t e ra t u r e .
By early next week we shall
probably find ourselves
wandering about the malls with
the gait and manner of a
somnambulist, wracking our
brains for a solution.
Sod’s law says a friend will
catch us among intimate female
garments when we are really
only looking for a bottle of
perfume.
No, Christmas shopping is
not for us males and the whole
business should be left for the
distaff side of the family.
It is true that in delegating
these duties, the head of the
house runs the risk of boosting
PLAN
AHEAD: To
survive the
Christmas
shopping
season, it
helps to plan
well ahead
P i c t u re :
P I X A B AY
his January bills to
unprecedented levels but most
men would gladly pay out the
extra just to get out of the
December tribulations.
Women may have their
shortcomings but when it comes
to Christmas shopping they
know exactly what they are
about. They always have a
complete list of relatives,
deserving or otherwise; they
always study the advertisements
and have the uncanny knack of
giving the “j u s t - wh a t - I - n e e d e d ”
present to everybody.
They are paragons of
foresight and organising ability
and what’s more, seem to enjoy
the whole business.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Ice, Ice Baby
“It was so cold where we
w e r e ,’’ said an Arctic explorer at
a Christmas re-union, “that the
candle-light froze and we
couldn’t blow it out.”
“Th a t ’s nothing,” replied his
friend. “Where we were, the
words came out of our mouths
in pieces of ice and we had to
fry them to see what we were
talking about.”
Water meters stolen
over the weekend
AMANDA NANO
The theft of water meters is on
the rise in East London, even
though they have no scrap
va l u e .
At the weekend, 31 water
meters were stolen in the metro.
DA councillor Tessa Botha
said: “Stolen water meters are
now an everyday occurrence in
my ward, especially in the
Cambridge and Cambridge
West areas.
“I received a report of 10
meters being stolen in Smuts
Road, Selborne, this morning
[ M o n d ay ] ,” Botha said.
She said Buffalo City Metro
[BCM] needed to come up with
a solution on how to secure the
meters.
“It’s not just an
inconvenience, it also frustrates
the residents.”
BCM spokesperson
Bathandwa Diamond said the
thefts were not a new trend.
“Smart meters have no scrap
va l u e .
“The municipality is
changing the brass fittings to
plastic fittings, which have no
resale value.
“We ’re working with the
SAPS and municipal law
enforcement in monitoring the
affected areas,” Diamond said.
A Selborne resident said it
appeared the water meter thefts
in the area had occurred at
about 10pm on Sunday night.
“My husband went out to
check and found water pumping
out. This carried on all night and
we woke up this morning to no
wa t e r.
“The water has now been
restored and they did solve the
problem pretty quickly when
the BCM workers came,” she
said.
“It’s not just my house that
was affected but several others
in my street.”
However, the resident
complained that she had
struggled to get hold of the
m u n i c i p a l i t y.
“I struggled to get hold of
them on all the numbers
provided. Why do they supply
these numbers but don’t
respond? I called the fire
department out of desperation
and also reported the matter to
my ward councillor.
“The time it took to respond
resulted in a huge waste of
water. “We ’re in a drought and
we have all these water
r e s t r i c t i o n s .”
Affected residents can report
meter thefts to the following
BCM landline numbers between
8am and 4.30pm:
● 043-705-9234/5 for East
London;
● 043-705-9860/1 for
Mdantsane; and
● 043-604-8226/90 for inland
areas.
The BCM call centre can be
contacted on 086-111-3017 for
after-hours complaints.
There has been a huge
increase in water tariff levels
since the implementation of
stage 3 water restrictions on
New Year’s Day.
Residents have become
increasingly irate over erratic
and exorbitant water bills.
BCM ratepayers started to
pay more for services from
July 1.
The cost of waste removal
and water services increased by
9.2%, sewage services by 9.2%,
electricity by 6.23% and
property rates by 6.25%. -
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