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Jonathan Cochrane holding his henselite bowling ball after his final game at Edgemead Bowls Club. He played with the ball at all the clubs throughout the day in an attempt to break the current Guinness world record.

Bowler claims world record

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 Table View,…

Supporters of The Haven Night Shelter’s dignity project, from left, are Darryn Reddy; Carly Haydricks; Tracey Botha; Marlene Govender; The Haven Night Shelter CEO Shaddie Valayadum; The Haven Night Shelter’s executive assistant Jaco Maree; Mark Williams; Alistair Laguma; and Minnin du Preez.

The Haven launches dignity project to empower homeless over festive season

The Haven Night Shelter will launch its Dignity Project later this week to help support the homeless during the festive season. The initiative will run from tomorrow Tuesday,…

Two Oceans Aquarium and the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (Sanccob) will host a Waddle for the Penguins from Muizenberg to Simon’s Town on Saturday October 12. Picture: Ian Landsberg/African News Agency (ANA).

Waddle to help save the African penguins

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 Town, on…

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 Parks Week. Picture: Cape Point Nature Reserve

Two days left for free entry to national parks

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 Parks…

The annual Zandvlei Trust Spring Talks starts this week and will be presented on three consecutive Thursday evenings throughout September. Photo: Leon Lestrade

Zandvlei Trust presents spring talks

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 at The…

The City’s prepaid electricity metre software update project is coming to an end. Picture: City of Cape Town

Time running out to update prepaid electricity metres

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

David Hill, former editor-in-chief of Cape Community Newspapers, shakes hands with former president Nelson Mandela during a visit to Newspaper House in 1999. Pictured from left are, Shaun Johnson, the then managing director of Independent Newspapers Cape, Vukile Sonandzi, founding editor of Vukani and in front, Chryss O’Reilly wife of Irish businessman Sir Anthony O’Reilly, who owned Independent News and Media South Africa at the time.

Saluting legendary former editor-in-chief, David Hill

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 Hill, former…

Nostalgic train trip to Simon’s Town

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 of Camps Bay…

A group photo of Rotarians who participated in the “Focus on the Finish: The Polio Endgame Photoshoot” on Tuesday October 24 at Signal Hill.

Rotary campaign aims to eradicate polio

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 Photoshoot”,…

Navy mini festival cancelled

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 after three…

Pick n Pay delivery trucks parked on both sides of the road just off Clovelly's entrance leading the way to the Country Club on Monday September 11.

Final farewell for retail giant Raymond Ackerman

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 died on…

Motorists who apply to renew their driving-licence cards before Thursday, March 31 will have their licences valid for a further three months on condition they are in possession of their old cards and proof of fees paid for the application to renew in the form of a receipt.

Driving licence backlogs to be cleared soon

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 was experienced…

Apply for special votes now

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 day.…

Equipment from the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) Hospital of Hope, which was decommissioned in September last year, has been distributed to other hospitals in the province.

SA on alert over more-catchy Covid strain

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 Ramaphosa made…

Keegan Terry with his winning cocktail, the passion fruit sunset.

Cocktail king wins top hospitality prize

A Mount Nelson Hotel food and beverage supervisor will soon be exploring two of Scotland’s top whisky distilleries after being named wine steward of the year for 2020, at a…