After the rain: Swartvlei and Touws River (Wilderness) Park Manager for the Garden Route National Park, Paddy Gordon has expressed relief that the breaching of Swartvlei and Touw estuaries, which took place on Wednesday 15 November, was so closely aligned to the estuary management plan. He affirmed the significance of keeping the mouth closed until […]
From SANParks… The current water levels in Swartvlei are at 1,8m and we’re expecting a high tide at 14:00. The Swartvlei and Touw River mouths should be successfully breached soon. There are currently machines at the Touw River and Swartvlei estuaries to assist with breaching the estuary mouths. No further incidents were reported as a […]
Two local kayakers faced a fisherman’s biggest fear early on Sunday Morning when a four-metre Great White got quite serious about having them for breakfast. When the huge shark hit one fishing kayak so viciously the paddler fell into the water, his fishing buddy truly believed a tragic end was looming… Experienced fishermen Hanno Smit […]
Sedgefield’s darling Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, who was crowned Miss South Africa in March this year, is ready and eager for the 66th Miss Universe Pageant to be held at The Axis in Las Vegas on Sunday, November 26. Social media was all a-twitter last week, when the national costume was first revealed at her Miss Universe […]
During a Special Council meeting held this morning (25 October) in Knysna Council Chambers, a Motion of No Confidence against Deputy Mayor Peter Myers was successful, with 11 councilors voting for and ten against. This motion was proposed by members of his own party, the Democratic Alliance, after weeks of internal headbutting. The main catalyst of this discontent […]
60 kilometres of kite string would stretch from the Eden Kite Festival venue at Eden Lawns in Sedgefield to the Beacon Island Hotel in Plettenberg Bay; 650 square metres of cloth weighing 65kg would cover the Centre Court at Wimbledon almost 5 times; Add 2kms of 2mm thick fibre-glass rods weighing only 13kg, and then […]
As the academic year draws to an end, ‘Matric farewell’ season is upon us. The Grade 12s are all donning their glad rags and heading off to booked venues to celebrate the end of their schooling careers in as much style as they can muster. And from then on life gets serious for them. With […]
With the wounds of the Knysna fires still raw, Sedgefield has faced two more blazes in less than a week, with a total of 31 homes being destroyed and an estimated 100 or more people losing most of their worldly belongings. The first fire ravaged through Smutsville’s Beverley Hills in the early hours of Friday […]
Once again local residents, businesses and charity organisations have pulled out all the stops in support of the Sedgefield Melodrama, and if the response of the audiences thus far has been anything to go by, this year’s Once Upon a Night has met everyone’s high expectations and more. The enthusiasm of cast and crew is […]
As we draw towards the end of Women’s Month, it seems that at least part of our education system is still working to laws of the dark ages – this after a thirteen-year-old girl who was raped by a boy at her high school hostel, whilst two other boys held her down, has been expelled from […]