Council Announces Service Delivery Action Plan for Rosevalley
The Oudtshoorn Municipal Council will today,15 May 2012announce the service delivery action plan for the community of Rosevalley in Ward 6 in an information session that will start at13:00in an open space that was used for the recent Freedom Day Celebrations. The announcement will cover the following areas: Sanitation Clean drinking water Electricity Housing Refuse [...]
Absa Calitzdorp Port & Wine Festival bigger and better in 2012
18 –20 May 2012 Get ready for the best wine and lifestyle festival in the Klein Karoo! Calitzdorp, the Port Capital of South Africa, is the place to be over the weekend of 18 to 20 May as visitors from across the country make their way to the annual Absa Calitzdorp Port & Wine Festival. [...]
Tome’s dark horse pick pays off at Vodacom Origins Simola
KNYSNA (11 May 2012) – Morne Tome couldn’t help flashing his fellow amateurs a large, toothy smile as he and professional Jake Redman crossed the stage at the amateur prize giving of the Vodacom Origins of Golf at Simola Country Club on Thursday night. Two days earlier, Tome had never heard of Redman. But after [...]
Ostrich culling almost complete
CAPE TOWN- The Western Cape Agriculture Department on Monday said it planned to complete the culling of ostriches affected by bird flu in theKarooby the end of this week. Agriculture MEC Gerrit van Reinsburg met with industry players in Oudtshoorn earlier. More than 40,000 ostriches have been culled since the initial outbreak of avian influenza [...]
Council Hands Over Housing Units to Beneficiaries
The Oudtshoorn Municipal Council handed over four completed housing units of the 48 infill sites housing projects that is currently underway to beneficiaries near Toekomsrus, on19 April 2012. This construction of the 48 housing units which commenced in February this year, is a continuation of the 129 housing units that have already been handed over [...]
Erik Van Rooyen Selected to Play in NCAA Ann Arbor Regional
The NCAA announced today that Universityof Minnesota junior Erik Van Rooyen has been awarded one of 10 individual spots at one of six Men’s Regional Golf Tournaments, played May 17-19. Van Rooyen, who played in the NCAA’s San Diego Regional last season, finishing in a tie for 51st place, will represent the Gophers in the [...]
36One MTB challenge sets new endurance race standards
The inaugural 36ONE MTB Challenge, held in Oudtshoorn, in South Africa’s Western Cape province over the past weekend, broke new athletic endurance ground and celebrated the birth of a new format of mountain bike challenge. The 361km race, which followed a relatively circular loop and which had a 36.1-hour cut-off limit, revealed that it is [...]
Six Kannas for Hanekom’s Babbel
The site-specific theatre production, Babbel, was the big winner at the twelfth Kanna Awards of the Absa KKNK, scooping the accolades in six of the ten categories. Babbel, from the innovative pen of theatre maker, Nicola Hanekom, was crowned with the Absa Kanna for Best Debut work, the Absa Herrie Kanna for Mind Shifting work, [...]












