Crankhandle magic

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Some of the cars from the Crankhandle Club at Kalk Bay Harbour. A 1912 Ford T Depot Hack. One of the cars that participated in the Crankhandle Club’s Kalk Bay Veteran ...

Bowler claims world record

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Jonathan Cochrane has officially set a new Guinness World Record title for the most lawn bowls clubs played in 24 hours. In October last year, Mr Cochrane, 47, of ...

Fish Hoek Lions support stationery drive

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Several Lions clubs, including the Fish Hoek Lions Club, partnered with a large e-commerce retail outlet to make up school bags for children in less fortunate communities. ...

Enjoy art to support Tears Animal Rescue

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Visitors browse some of the artworks at the Annual Deep South Community Art Exhibition at the Scarborough community centre. A painting, What the future holds, by ...

Lions cook up a storm at fund-raiser

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The Fish Hoek Lions Club won the prize for best “gees” at a potjiekos competition hosted by the Tokai Lions Club on Saturday November 9. Tokai Lions Club president ...

Bowler aims for Guinness record

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The Fish Hoek Bowling Club will be the starting point for a bowler attempting to set a new Guinness World Record for the most lawn bowls clubs played in 24 hours. ...

The Masque celebrates 65 years of community theatre

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The Masque Theatre in Muizenberg celebrated its 65th anniversary in a glitzy red-carpet event on Saturday October 12. Dressed in the theatre's signature colours ...

Waddle to help save the African penguins

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Two Oceans Aquarium and the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (Sanccob) will hold a Waddle for the Penguins, from Muizenberg to Simon’s ...

Spruce up your spring garden

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The Fish Hoek Garden Club will be hosting its annual Garden Expo and Flower Show at the Fish Hoek Civic Centre on Saturday October 5, from 9. 30am till 2pm. The ...

Two days left for free entry to national parks

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South African citizens have just two days left to take advantage of free entry to selected national parks, including Cape Point, as part of the 19th annual SA National ...

Zandvlei Trust presents spring talks

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The annual Zandvlei Trust Spring Talks starts this week and will be presented on three consecutive Thursday evenings throughout September. All talks will take place ...

Time running out to update prepaid electricity metres

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Capetonians have until Sunday November 24 to update prepaid electricity meters via the City’s prepaid electricity metre software update project. According to the ...

Saluting legendary former editor-in-chief, David Hill

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Former editor-in-chief of Cape Community Newspapers, David Hill, enjoying the outdoors in his retirement. Sandy Naude, CEO of Africa Community Media, with David ...

Containers removed from Lakeside church grounds

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Containers from an illegal storage facility at a Lakeside church have been removed. Mayoral committee member for spatial planning and environment Eddie Andrews said ...

Nostalgic train trip to Simon’s Town

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Passengers enjoying the trip from the Foreshore to Simon’s Town in the train’s lounge. Enjoying the trip, from left, are Belinda Day of Zeekoeivlei, Milla Styling ...

Rotary campaign aims to eradicate polio

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Rotarians celebrated World Polio Day on Tuesday October 24 with a walk and photoshoot on Signal Hill. The event was themed “Focus on the Finish: The Polio Endgame ...

Navy mini festival cancelled

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The SA Navy has cancelled the mini navy festival that was supposed to take place at the V&A Waterfront from Saturday September 23 to Monday September 25. This comes ...

Final farewell for retail giant Raymond Ackerman

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Family, friends and colleagues of Raymond Ackerman gathered at the Clovelly Country Club on Monday to pay their respects to the country’s retail giant. Mr Ackerman ...

Driving licence backlogs to be cleared soon

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The bottleneck of outstanding driving license cards experienced between November 2021 and January 2022 will be cleared by April 2022 and the renewal backlog that ...

Apply for special votes now

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Voters who will not be able to cast their votes on Monday November 1 due to physical infirmity or disability can vote by special vote on the two days preceding election ...

Elderly woman gets offer of free home make-over

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Two Fish Hoek women are paying it forward by renovating an elderly woman’s house at no cost. Business partners Madelyn New and Inga Andersen say they met Virginia ...

SA on alert over more-catchy Covid strain

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South Africans have been asked to stay home and flatten the curve for the next 14 days as the country moved to adjusted level-4 lockdown on Monday. President Cyril ...

Activist takes baboon’s case to court

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The Chacma baboon, SK11, better known as Kataza, is going to have its day in court, after animal-rights activist Ryno Engelbrecht made good on his threat to sue ...