Cape Horticultural Society’s Spring Flower and Garden Show

Spring Fever is in the air! Why not visit the Cape Horticultural Society’s Spring Flower and Garden Show?
Scheduled for Sat 19th and Sunday 20th September at the Alphen Centre in Constantia, this regular Celebration of Spring features a display of interesting and unusual, as well as common or garden  plants,  all grown by members of [...]

Cape Floral Kingdom Photo

Todays photo is of the view from Cape Town’s Silvermine Nature reserve towards the False Bay coastline. The Silvermine Reserve straddles the mountain, from the winding Ou Kaapse Weg (Old Cape Road) on the Tokai, Constantia and Westlake side of the mountain, over the peak of the mountain, and into Noordhoek, Sun Valley and Fishhoek, [...]

Cape Town Jazz Safari

Reviewed by the New York Times as ‘gritty authenticity’ and revered by the locals as authentic grooves, easy listening in Cape Town is a musical must. Take in live jazz in the living rooms of living musicians. Sit at the dining room table that comforts the local jazzing legends of moody tunes and absorb them [...]

Cederberg Photographs

Our photoographs today were taken in the Cederberg in the Olifants River Valley of the Western Cape. The Cederberg is a wilderness area dominated by a craggy mountain range and a nature reserve that stretches from the Middelberg Pass at Citrusdal to just north of the Pakhuis Pass at Clanwilliam – over 70,000 hectares of [...]

Get Creative with Dangerous Creatures

It is time to put your creative thinking caps on for the fourth uShaka Marine World Body Art competition taking place on Saturday 12 September 2009. This competition takes place at the uShaka Village Walk so bring the whole family for a day of fun.
This year the theme is “Dangerous Creatures” and artists are urged [...]

African Wild Cat Photographs

These photographs of an African Wild Cat were taken at the Emdoneni Cat Rehabilitation Centre in Hluhluwe, KwaZulu Natal. Apart from the obvious difference in their ear coloration and the longer legs, the African Wild Cat is easily mistaken for a domestic cat. Interbreeding is possible as they are so closely related to domestic cats. [...]

Win 3 Nights at 5-Star Zebula Golf Estate & Spa (closed)

Win a 3 night getaway to the only 5-star graded Country Club, Game Lodge and Spa in southern Africa, Zebula Golf Estate & Spa located in the African Bushveld, in the shadows of the Waterberg mountain range in the Limpopo Province.
Valued at R11000, the prize includes:

accommodation for 2 people sharing for 3 consecutive mid-week nights
a [...]

This Week in South African Sports – 26 August 2009

Rich medal haul for South African trio in Berlin
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi had the last laugh at the World Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on Sunday when he ran a superb 800m race to clock 1 min, 45.29 secs to secure a gold medal for South Africa. Mulaudzi did not run particularly well in [...]