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Friday, 27 November 2009

Green Map for Cape Town

Share Those who live in Cape Town are the envy of most of the coun­try. It is one of the most spec­tac­u­lar set­tings on the planet, although its unique envir­on­ment is also its most fra­gile asset. It lies in the heart of the Cape Floristic Kingdom, the smal­lest and most diverse of the world's six [...]

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Friday, 27 November 2009

Johnny Clegg at Kirstenbosch

Share The 2009 / 2010 Kirstenbosch Summer series of con­certs kicked off on Sunday even­ing with a superb per­form­ance from South African music legend Johnny Clegg. The venue star­ted to fill up from 3.30pm when the gates opened and by 5.30pm was packed to capa­city with fans of all ages.  The Kirstenbosch con­certs def­in­itely get [...]

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Thursday, 26 November 2009

Win 3 Nights in Luxury Cape Town Hotel (closed)

WIN a 3 night stay at the plush and play­ful Grand Daddy Hotel on Cape Town's trendy Long Street. This beau­ti­ful 26-roomed, 4-star hotel has been trans­formed into a cre­at­ive, afford­able and uber-chic offer­ing in Cape Town's city centre ...

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Thursday, 26 November 2009
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Things to Do with Kids during the School Holidays

Share It’s that time again ... school hol­i­days ... which means it’s time to spend some qual­ity time with your chil­dren, nieces, neph­ews, god-children or any other little ones in your life. But the big ques­tion that might be play­ing on your mind is what are we going to do? School hol­i­days are quite long over [...]

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Thursday, 26 November 2009
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Festive Season Events

Share It is almost that time of the year, hol­i­day time for most, fam­ily time for many and the shop­ping centres have Christmas music on repeat. In the words of one of those songs, for me "it's the most won­der­ful time of the year". This is a time for cel­eb­ra­tion and enjoy­ing time with those [...]

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Thursday, 26 November 2009

V&A Waterfront World Cup Draw Events

Share Predicted to attract thou­sands of Cape Town foot­ball fan­at­ics, celebrity watch­ers and the world’s media, the V&A Waterfront, in part­ner­ship with offi­cial FIFA World Cup spon­sors — MTN, Coca, Adidas and Sony — today revealed its line-up of exclus­ive events tak­ing place in and around the V&A Waterfront from December 1st to 6th, 2009. Coinciding [...]

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Thursday, 26 November 2009
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Festive Season Specials

Share ‘Tis the sea­son to be jolly (well soon enough), and the best way to be jolly this year, is to save on your hol­i­day accom­mod­a­tion – means you’ll have more to spend on the import­ant stuff like presents and cock­tails. So play­ing “helper elf”, here are a few spe­cial offers that’ll save your budget [...]

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Thursday, 26 November 2009

For Brides To Be — Win a Little Pink Book (closed)

Share Ah!  He’s pro­posed and you’ve accep­ted and now its wed­ding plan­ning time.  In as much as this is a very excit­ing time in a couple’s life, plan­ning a wed­ding can be stress­ful (I should know, I got engaged over the Easter week­end this year and mar­ried in September!) The Little Pink Book is designed [...]

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Wednesday, 25 November 2009

South African Sports News – 25 November

Share England cruise home against Proteas Paul Collingwood scored a superb unbeaten cen­tury to steer England to a com­fort­able seven-wicket win over South Africa in the second MTN one-day inter­na­tional (ODI) at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Sunday. Chasing the home side’s total of 250/9, England cantered to 252/3 to secure vic­tory with 24 balls [...]

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Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Izibindi Zulu Lodge — gameviewing, battlefields and Zulu culture

Share Isibindi Zulu Lodge in Rorke's Drift, KwaZulu Natal, is a peace­ful bushveld retreat with accom­mod­a­tion designed in an archi­tec­tural cel­eb­ra­tion of the Zulu nation. It offers a host of activ­it­ies for those want­ing to exper­i­ence a com­bin­a­tion of gameview­ing, bat­tle­fields and Zulu cul­tural exper­i­ences. "We found Isibindi quite unique, with it's bee­hive lodges and [...]

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Wednesday, 25 November 2009
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Eastern Cape Festive Season events

Share If you are plan­ning to be in the Eastern Cape this fest­ive sea­son let me give you some ideas on how to make your hol­i­day extra spe­cial. The Uitenhage Street Carnival from Friday 4 to Saturday 5 December is two days of fun. With music, art, cul­ture, street mar­kets and parades, not to forget [...]

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Wednesday, 25 November 2009
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Christmas markets happening around the country

Share The count­down to Christmas has begun and with just over a month to go you are prob­ably won­der­ing what you are going to be filling the fam­ily Christmas stock­ings with or you might want to spend some qual­ity time with your friends brows­ing around the vari­ous Christmas fairs and mar­kets this fest­ive sea­son. The [...]

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Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Wining, dining and music at Solms-Delta

Share Hey la la, hey la la, hey la la — our voices were jiv­ing, our hips sway­ing and our fin­gers click­ing in time to Robbie Jansen's slightly smokey voice as he gave vent to his own inter­pret­a­tion of Cape jazz — a fusion of musical influ­ences ran­ging from tra­di­tional Cape Malay 'goema' and African [...]

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Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Tshukudu Bush Lodge — a perfectly indulgent bush getaway

Share Imagine lying back in a sooth­ing bubble bath with a sweep­ing view of the malaria-free Pilanesberg National Park, where over 80 spe­cies of animal roam the savan­nah. Imagine no more. Built high on a rocky out­crop, Tshukudu Bush Lodge has been designed to offer you a per­fectly indul­gent bush get­away ... Overlooking its own [...]

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Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Fundraising Spinnathon for child protection

Share Are you feel­ing a bit out of touch with your com­munity and you would like to do some­thing for a good cause but are not sure what, then why not head down to Canal Walk in Cape Town on Saturday 5 December and take part in the "Make a Difference Spinnathon". Virgin Active and [...]

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