| January 24, 2009 |
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To market, to market ... Timothy Twidle THE Friday Evening Market in Knysna is a feast of good fun and good food. Every Friday, from 4pm to 8pm, more than 20 food stalls serve up a variety of cuisine, sufficient to fire up the gastric juices and tempt the most jaded palate. The range of food on offer is quite astounding.... Musicals clean up at Awards Theatre Correspondent THE Barry Manilow musical Copacabana, presented by Victoria Park High School, and the two Disney mini-musicals Mulan Jr and Aladdin Jr, staged by Greenwood Primary and Clarendon Park Primary schools respectively, were the big winners at the 19th annual Showtime Junior Awards ceremonies held at the Opera House last night.... Love at first sight for owner of rare, red bird Brett Adkins FOR Port Elizabeth motor enthusiast Martin Kruger it was love at first sight – he‘s been passionate about his GSM Flamingo classic for the past 35 years.... Reaching out to help Bob Hopkin STILL only in her early thirties, Kate Smulian has already led a more varied and exploratory lifestyle than most of us will ever experience. Born in Farnborough, the aviation capital of the UK, with an acting RAF squadron leader and bomber pilot as her father, she realised at an early age that she had psychic attributes that few could understand.... Stomp into the year with The Beatles, Elvis Arts Correspondent AFTER the success of the monthly Stomps held at the Algoa Bay Yacht Club last year the nostalgic sound of the 60s and 70s music will continue, starting with the first Stomp of the year taking place next Saturday.... Epsac‘s tribute to PE Art Club Arts Correspondent A TRIBUTE to the members of the PE Art Club which flourished in the 1960s and 70s will open in exhibition form at Epsac.... Exhibition captures top artists Arts Correspondent THE month of February at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum launches with the opening of an exhibition of documentary photographs by top South African artists.... |
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Novelist learns to get by in LA Satellite LInk, with John Harvey WHEN it first appeared on South African television, I very much doubted whether American series Californication was all that it was cracked up to be. Firstly, I had only come in at the tail-end of one episode, and while the one-liners delivered by David Duchovny in the role of Hank Moody bordered on breaking new TV boundaries in terms of impudence, I still questioned the storyline, as has often been the case with previous Showtime productions.... 
Maturity vital in SA politics THERE is no doubt the birth of the Congress of the People (Cope) towards the latter part of last year caused a major upheaval in the South African political landscape, perhaps the most significant realignment since Dr Andries Treurnicht‘s arch-conservatives broke away from the National Party in the early 1980s to form the Conservative Party. The result is that it has injected new life into politics and there is renewed interest in the forthcoming general election. This is good for the country and a sign democracy is working here.... 
Ex-pats homeward bound! Yolandé Hayward WEEKEND POST REPORTER THE global economic meltdown and resulting widespread job cuts could result in South Africa‘s crippling brain drain soon becoming a brain gain as South Africans living abroad are forced to return home.... 
Bay‘s best are ready for Santos in survival fight Chumani Bambani WEEKEND POST REPORTER BAY United continue their fight for survival in the Absa Premiership tomorrow when they face Cape Town‘s Santos at the EPRU Stadium in Port Elizabeth.... 
East Cape social investment initiative celebrates 20 years Bob Kernohan BUSINESS EDITOR AN Eastern Cape social investment initiative has received international praise as it celebrates its 20th anniversary with allocations of R8-million taking its total spent over the two decades to R58-million.... |
