The new 6-star Billabong event will run in 2nd week of July

This year’s 6-Star Billabong Pro J -Bay will run in the second week of July, immediately after the Prime rated event in Ballito and offers a prize-purse of US $155 000 (approx. R1.2 million) with the winner pocketing close to … Continue reading

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Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay downgraded this year

The Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay (Event No 5 of 11 on the 2012 ASP World Championship Tour), has been downgraded from an ASP World Title event to an ASP 6-Star for 2012. In an official statement at Coolangatta, Queensland  this morning, … Continue reading

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Digby and the Lullaby, aka Diesel Vanilla, take a bite of the Big Apple

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Cape Town-based musicians Darren Digby Peens  and Rouchelle Hubsch previously known as Diesel Vanilla will be performing in the Eastern Cape over Easter. The duo who have now re-branded themselves as Digby and the Lullaby, flew off to New York in October last year after forging a … Continue reading

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Kouga staff win Vuna Award

Kouga Municipality has won a Vuna Award for its performance during 2010/11. The awards, an initiative of the Eastern Cape Department of Local Government and Traditional Affairs, were presented at a ceremony inPort Elizabeth on 14 February 2012. The Department’s … Continue reading

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Brave father drowns trying to save his kids

A brave local father drowned this afternoon in the Kromme River while trying to save his two teenage children caught in the incoming tide. The petrified children clung to a pole in the river until they were rescued by NSRI … Continue reading

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How to ‘break the grip of the rip’

The St Francis Kromme Trust Heritage kids and Woodridge Lifesavers are teaming up for an ‘Action Beach’ morning to make everyone ‘beach wise’. This follows two cases of drowning off St Francis Bay’s beach over the past three months. Two … Continue reading

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Hundreds of kids overwhelm recycling project

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The Rotary St Francis recycling project attracted an overwhelming number of kids this afternoon. Long lines of kids, at least three abreast, stretched  from the gates of Talhado almost right up to Tarragona Road at 2.45 pm, on the third … Continue reading

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