The Reporter, or formerly the Barkly East Reporter (established in 1886) is the oldest newspaper in the North Eastern Cape. The Reporter reaches a large variety of different areas throughout the Eastern Cape. The newspaper also distributes to schools who receive free copies. It is a family owned newspaper.<\/p>\n
Barkly East is a town in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, seat of the Joe Gqabi District Municipality, and 117 km by road E.S.E. of Aliwal North, lying in the mountainous area just south of Lesotho. The town lies at the southern tip of the Drakensberg on the Langkloofspruit, a tributary of the Kraai River which, in turn is a tributary of the Orange River at an elevation of 1 790 meter above sealevel. Barkly East is characterized by rugged mountains and green valleys. Snow falls in winter, and the hamlet of Rhodes is 60 km or an hour’s drive from Barkly East on the R396. Both are within the boundaries of the Senqu Local Municipality.<\/p>\n
It has been one of the few areas in South Africa where winter sports are pursued, and in summer fly fishing for Rainbow trout and indigenous Smallmouth yellowfish, trail running, mountain biking, ancient rock-art, tennis and the magnificent scenery draw tourists to the district. A recent development is the mountainous terrain attracting off-road bikers who revel in traversing the numerous passes in the area. Even more recent is the opening of the winter fly fishing season on Wild Trout Association waters around Barkly East, Lady Grey, Rhodes and Wartrail.<\/p>\n
Xhosa and Afrikaans are spoken by most of the inhabitants, while English and some Sotho are also spoken. The primary economic base of the district is sheep-farming, the pasturage being excellent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","atbdp_listing_types":[2],"at_biz_dir-category":[25],"at_biz_dir-location":[92],"at_biz_dir-tags":[93],"class_list":["post-248","at_biz_dir","type-at_biz_dir","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","atbdp_listing_types-general","at_biz_dir-category-community-and-regional-newspapers","at_biz_dir-location-barkly-east","at_biz_dir-tags-barkly-east","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/at_biz_dir\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/at_biz_dir"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/at_biz_dir"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"atbdp_listing_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/atbdp_listing_types?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"at_biz_dir-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/at_biz_dir-category?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"at_biz_dir-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/at_biz_dir-location?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"at_biz_dir-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/at_biz_dir-tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}