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Welcome to St Francis Chronicle, St Francis Bay’s 24/7 ‘Daily News Online’ News Agency.
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St Francis Chronicle is a free news agency bringing you the top and most informative news daily, hourly and up to the minute online, if necessary, 24/7 on line or in the increasingly popular free tabloid community newspaper that is printed monthly!!
Find out what’s on in the St Francis towns of St Francis Bay and Cape St Francis; find out what’s happening in St Francis Bay and Cape St Francis -24/7 – the best, reliable and verifiable local news and news of interest to all St Francis Chronicle readers – near and far, in South Africa and abroad.
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St Francis Chronicle is the only fully-fledged St Francis community newspaper in the St Francis area of St Francis Bay. Your award-winning local newspaper, St Francis Chronicle is also one of the Eastern Cape’s only free, independent tabloid newspapers. It is your best source source for local news and news of surrounding areas of keen interests to St Francs readers and owners of holiday homes here
Now in its 10th year of publication, St Francis Chronicle is published in St Francis Bay but is distributed widely – in St Francis Bay, Cape St Francis, Oyster Bay, Humansdorp, Jeffreys Bay and in parts of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. Plus it’s sent to a growing subscriber base of South Africans who live elsewhere in Southern Africa, in Botswana and Zimbabwe and overseas, who have holiday homes here and who wish to keep up to date with what is happening in the St Francis area..
And that is not all – the entire print edition is posted here online each month for readers country wide and worldwide to read. So advertisers get extra readers through the online edition at no extra charge.
As we have done in our print editions for almost 10 years we have followed suit online by being a ‘chronicle of events’ as they happen in St Francis Bay and surrounds.
Some news just cannot wait till the next monthly edition so we were asked to publish more news and more often …
On this site you can now keep up to date daily (or continuously throughout the day and night, 24/7 when the occasion demands it – such as in times of crisis or major events affecting the St Francis area).
You can now be always kept up to date with St Francis Chronicle ‘ News Online’. So check back regularly. Check back daily – or half hourly in times of crises .
And in case you were wondering about the value of an online service… our venture has proved to be a highly successful move…
After less than a month of operation we had just under 2000 hits on one day - on 8 July) when we continuously throughout the day covered the breaking up of the Sand River bridge following heavy rains and flood waters. Our news and pics were even published on other websites including a major national news website the same day.
Yes, whenever, there is a crisis this free, local community, news site is proving to be more and more popular with 500 minimum and so far up to 172 000 views a day when big events affect the lives of the St Francis residents. We are currently averaging around 5000 readers a month. This is in addition to all the readers of the popular print edition.
If you need to be in the know, this popular free news site is the place to get news pertaining to your area – news that affects your lives., we are always connecting you to the news and to what’s happening in St Francis and environs. Several social media and citizen blogger type websites carry news that has not been verified and is often slanderous and defamatory. Here all news is verified by a professional journalist and Editor with a proven track record .
You are welcome to submit news and photos for publication on this site or in the monthly print edition – any news that you want everyone to know about right now – whether it’s a sewing club , a pet lost or found, a stolen laptop or another bridge gone down, contact us. We strive to be first with the news and to always be the best source of news in order to keep you continually updated in any situation, emergency and crisis, in good times and in bad – so we value your input, your tip offs, phone calls , smses and emails, messages on FB etc.
We bring you the news. We love to serve.
All articles written, all photos taken, plus all adverts designed, by the Editor and printed in the St Francis Chronicle are protected by Copyright. Reproduction or copying of any part of the contents of this newspaper and its concept and design can only be done with the Editor’s written permission.
Contributors: B. Mortimer; M. Mortimer.
sfc at stfrancisc dot co dot za
Although this is the daily ‘News Online’ site for St Francis Chronicle, you can also read the latest monthly, printed editions once a month. Monthly printed editions of the tabloid are available in select stores and shops or outlets in St Francis, Jeffreys Bay, Humansdorp and Port Elizabeth.
Read the entire monthly print editions online at:
with regard to article placed regarding the 29 year old man that passed away at a jbay beach on the 1jan 2012. I would just like to say that he pulled onto shore by his friend whilst the lifeguards watched, someone from the crowd had to administer cpr as the guards just stood watching, they could not find the ems number on their phone another friend had to run to the nearest phone 300 meters away. I have never seen or dealt with such poorly trained and under skilled ‘life guards’ and i use that term loosely in my life. You would think that as a holiday destination the municipality would have highly trained and competent guards on duty.
Hello… cpould u please pass a huge thank you to the gentleman that found our border collie, casey at St Francis on New Years Day. Shen went missing from Kromme River, about 3 kilometres from the bridge on the left side of the river. She disappeared around midnite, with the huge crackers and fire works, she is very sensitive and hates alot of noise. We combed the whole area around Kromme and the river, but no Casey.. We took a drive into St Francis Bay, driving around but never thought she would go that far, we later went to the Viking bakery and asked the owner and he said that a gentleman had picked up a border collie….. he gave us directions to his home and just before we arrived at the house, a car stopped us and asked if we were looking for a dog…. and there she was, exhausted, sore and thirty…. please say a huge thank you to the gentleman, never got his name, so thankful to have Casey back with us, she must have run over 10km to where the man found her. her paws are sore, she has sores under the found legs where she must have gone through fences and through bushes. Mandy thanks once again
Kayleigh Tuck (17) from Uitenhage
”Thoughts on About”. Yes I agree, it definetly is not good practice, when the ”Life Guards”, stand and watch while good neighbourly civilians do the necessary to save a persons life. One must ask the question, ”How qualified are the Life Guards?”. Are they Lifeguards or merely volunteers who have offered their services? Have they recieved any formal training? I would really be surprised if the answer should be ”No”, because the NSRI are active in your bay, and are fully trained in performing their duties including lifesaving.
how do I post a wedding story with picture to you?
Please email it to m: stfrancisc at yahoo dot co dot uk
Could you please e-mail me the e-mail address and name of the editor of the St Francis Chronicle? I want to send him/her a letter please
kind regards
chessicatz@yahoo.co.uk
Hi please send me a address to reach the person writing these articles and FACTS???!!!!
? sorry don’t understand.
I would like do an interview with the editor regarding the fires. Please send me a contact number to news@algoafm.co.za or call 041 583 1542
Regards Shadley Nash – News Eds
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Anyone who pays a R25,000 monthly rent for a house must really go and see Dr. Phil sometime! On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:56 AM, St Francis Chronicle wrote:
> ** > mira commented: “modern norwegian holiday house in wavecrest jbay fully > furnished main ensuite with private balcony 2/3/4 bedroom share full > bathroom private balcony ensuite bedroom downstairs walks onto pool area / > braai / lovely deck looks onto nature park area hu” >