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Curvy Kelly in Cape Town


Kelly Brook on the beach in Cape Town

British model, actress, television presenter, Playboy model and swimwear designer Kelly Brook has just celebrated opening her new Tumblr account by posting pics of herself in Cape Town. Well, actually, she posted pics of herself languishing in Mykonos, the Algarve, Malibu, Brazil, Nekker Island… “I travel a lot,” the 32-year-old, who’s famous for her curves, [...]

Table Mountain new natural wonder


Table Mountain

Table Mountain has been announced as one of the New7Wonders of Nature along with the Amazon, Halong Bay, Iguazu Falls, Jeju Island, Komodo and Puerto Princesa Underground River. In 2008, Table Mountain was identified as one of 440 magnificent natural sites selected by the New7Wonders Foundation to enter the three-phase New7Wonders of Nature contest. In [...]

Vote for Table Mountain


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Table Mountain is in the running to become one of the New7Wonders of Nature (www.new7wonders.com) and the iconic mountain needs a few more votes in order to take it from its current 10th place to at least number 7! You can sms or vote online. If you live in South Africa, you can sms/text the [...]

Chocolate heir dies in South African accident


Ferrero Rocher

The heir to the Ferrero Rocher chocolate-making group, has died in an accident in South Africa. He fell off his bicycle whilst training during a business trip to Cape Town with his father, Michele, one of the richest men in Italy. It is suspected that Pietro Ferrero (47) suffered a heart-attack which caused the fall, [...]

SAReunited co-founder Amanda Tsinonis


Amanda Tsinonis, co-founder SAReunited

Amanda Tsinonis co-founded SAReunited seven years ago. Within weeks it became South Africa’s largest social-networking site. She talks to us about nuns, plump purple figs and how to pick your battles. Read more…

Watch the Athlone Cooling Towers Demolition in Cape Town


Athlone Towers in Cape Town just as they were about to come down...

Watch this! The Athlone towers coming down at midday on 22 August. First, here’s the short version: Here’s a longer version — taken from a distance at Rhodes Memorial which is approximately 5 km away as the crow flies, so you only hear the rumble of the explosion after the Athlone Cooling towers are already [...]

Cape Town launches meat-free day


by Janine Erasmus The City of Cape Town has launched a campaign to encourage people to eat less meat – at least once a week – for the sake of the environment and the welfare of humans and farm animals. Cape Town executive mayor Dan Plato made the official announcement at the end of July [...]

BBC spends big bucks on SA studio


Cape Town is to be the home base for the BBC during the 2010 FIfa World Cup.

by Janine Erasmus The BBC has come under a lot of flak for its decision to spend around £1-million (R11-million) on building a brand new broadcast studio in Cape Town which it will use it as its base for the duration of the 2010 Fifa World Cup. Despite most media companies’ decision to be based [...]

Support Education in Cape Town


Submitted by: Laura Pugliese, Development Officer The South African Education and Environment Project (SAEP), is a programme that provides education support and capacity building initiatives in Cape Town. SAEP’s work includes an innovative Early Childhood Development Programme, which partners with creches in Philippi, Mitchell’s Plain and Samora Machel townships, providing them with resources and training [...]

South African Surfers break Guinness World Record


The wave on which 103 Cape Town surfers broke the Guinness World Record for the ‘most surfers riding the same wave’ at Earthwave in Muizenberg, Cape Town

More than 100 surfers rode a wave at the Earthwave beach festival in Muizenberg, Cape Town on Sunday 4 October to break the Guinness World Record for the ‘most surfers riding the same wave’. “We estimated that there were more than 120 surfers on the fifth of the seven waves surfed at Muizenberg during Earthwave,’ [...]

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