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 Spicing up the biltong bash ONE of the South African artists chosen to sing at the Nelson Mandela birthday concert in London, Kurt Darren, will be on stage in Somerset East next week. Darren shared the London stage with the likes of Queen, Annie Lennox, Simple Minds and Eddy Grant. He sang Gimme Hope, Joanna with superstar Eddie Grant who wrote the anti-apartheid protest song in the 1980s. At the time, it was banned by the SABC. Darren is among a number of star attractions at the annual Castle Lager East Cape Biltong Festival and will be performing next Saturday at 7.30pm. The Boschberg Mountain will provide a striking backdrop to the main stage at the two-day festival which starts on Friday at 2pm on the Somerset East agricultural grounds. Other featured artists include PJ Powers, Kobus Muller, Robbie Wessels, Patrick Lindoor, Emo Adams and Dr Victor and the Rasta Rebels. Entertainment will also include the Cape Minstrels, camel rides, Popsi the Clown and many other activities for the younger visitors. Sizzling on griddles throughout the grounds will be sosaties, roosterkoek, pancakes, calamari, pizza, cheese grillers, schwarmas and kudu steak rolls. Art lovers will have something to chew on with a special display of the works of Walter Battiss. Acclaimed restaurateur and cookbook author Janet Telian, of Savoy Cabbage fame, now lives in Somerset East and she and Somerset guest house owner Vega van Niekerk will be preparing treats for visitors to the Battiss Gallery on the festival Saturday. Battiss (aka King Ferd the Third of Fook), was born in Somerset East and spent his childhood there. The gallery, on the corner of Paulet and Beaufort Streets will be open on Saturday between 10am and 12 noon. Battiss-inspired biltong treats, hot port and lemon and coffee will be served in the gallery which once belonged to the artist‘s family, according to curator Maraja Badenhorft.
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Take away the cars that kill THERE can be no disputing the fact that drastic measures are needed to curb the death and destruction we see every day on South Africa‘s roads. Similarly, it is now widely accepted that reckless and criminal driver behaviour is the cause of the vast majority of accidents, that collectively claim 15000 lives and cost a staggering R43 billion each year. And so it is clear that much harsher punitive action – rather than more passive awareness campaigns or better driver education – is the key to changing that behaviour.... 
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