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Starting in Willowmore the route winds through beautiful mountain ranges into the magnificent Baviaanskloof, the Trans Baviaans is not only the longest single stage MTB team event in the world, but also one of South Africa’s premier mountain biking events.
The Trans Baviaans has been taking pl...
2011 Trans Baviaans 24hr Mountain Biking Marathon
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The Absa Cape Epic presented by Adidas takes place every year around the last week of March and the first week of April.
The race is held over 8 days and includes a time-trial prologue.
The route changes every year, and leads aspiring amateur and professional mountain bikers from around ...
ABSA Cape Epic
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Summer, Sports, Activities, Family Fun and of course the Beach are what makes South African summers so healthy!
After the success of our Sports Development Beach Soccer Tournament in December 2009, Knysna will be hosting it’s 3rd annual Beach Festival in December 2011.
Annual Beach Festival
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ART|Stellenbosch is a new contemporary art event that will be hosted annually in Stellenbosch.
Stellenbosch is South Africa’s second oldest town and a cultural centre which attracts thousands of local and international visitors annually.
ART|Stellenbosch plans to be a progressive art even...
ART|Stellenbosch
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The annual Artscape High School Drama Festival consists of several mini festivals across the Western Cape during April and May.
The 12 most promising schools are then selected to perform at the main festival in September at the Artscape Arena.
With the theme Moving Mountains, 13 schools ...
Artscape High School Drama Festival
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This year the Artscape Schools Arts Festival has grown.
Despite a small decline in the number of participating schools, the sum total of participants, some as young as seven years old, has risen to over 2 400.
Learners are coming as far as Vredendal on the West Coast and George on the So...
Artscape Schools Arts Festival
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The Baxter Theatre Centre in Cape Town is home to the annual Baxter Dance Festival,renowned for its diversity of dance genres.It showcases works by established dance companies and choreographers.
Baxter Dance Festival
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Not a trail run, but a Nature Reserve road run, with unbounded beauty.
Starting in the middle of the Reserve, the route swings past the south western tip of the continent at the Cape of Good Hope, via curious ostriches and eager baboons, through acres of indigenous fynbos and ends at the lawned...
Cape Point Half Marathon
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In 1977 Bill Mylrea and John Stegmann, who are credited with being the visionaries and moving spirits behind the Cycle Tour, organised the Big Ride-In to draw attention to the need for cycle paths in Cape Town. The Ride-In, which was held under the auspices of the newly founded Western Province Peda...
Cape Argus Pick 'n Pay Cycle Tour
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This carnival kicks off every New Year, more than 13 000 brightly dressed minstrels dance through the city centre singing traditional songs and playing banjos.
Cape Minstrels Carnival
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The Cape Town Book Fair annualy draws thousands of publishers, writers and readers to the city's International Convention Centre.
Visitors are keen to find rare editions, get books signed by authors or simply attend launches.
Celebrate our very own Cape Town Book Fair Professional Day wit...
Cape Town Book Fair
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The Cape Town Dragon Boat Festival is held at the Waterfront.
The festival attracts private and corporate teams of paddlers to do battle out on the water.
This spectacular and exciting team sport originated in China over 2400 years ago and was introduced to South Africa in 1992 when two b...
Cape Town Dragon Boat Festival
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The Cape Town Fashion Week is Africa's premier fashion event, showcasing collections of some of South Africa's top designers.
With South Africa’s Spring season already in the air, Cape Town is set to dazzle with glitz and glam from August 11-14 as the AFI Cape Town Fashion Week comes to town.
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Cape Town Fashion Week
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It is the largest and most credible comedy project on the African Continent and has presented over 160 international acts to well over 100 000 audiences, placing it firmly amongst the top 5 comedy events in the world.
The festival will once again bring the world's hottest international and loc...
Nando's Comedy Festival
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Cape Town's annual International Kite Festival presents spectacular shows by local and international teams, including Japan,USA, India, Malaysia and China among others.
The annual Cape Town International Kite Festival is set to take place in Muizenberg.
This year’s event is themed ‘Uplift...
Cape Town International Kite Festival
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The Cape Town International Jazz Festival has grown into a hugely successful international event since its inception in the year 2000. Attendance figures have increased from the initial 14 000 to 32 000 in the last 11 years.
Melodytrip has ranked this proudly South African event as No.4 in the...
Cape Town Jazz Festival
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Come to the Klein Karoo in October and experience the ultimate in cycling.
A route designed by legendary adventurer, Katot Meyer, is the best kept secret around. Traversing 2 Mountain ranges, crossing the arid semi-desert Karoo and flowing through the coastal forests of the garden route coast.
DCM Cape Pioneer Trek
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Design Indaba Expo is a celebration of South Africa's ingrained creativity. Advertising, architecture, craft, decor, film, fashion, graphic design, jewellery, new media, publishing, product design and visual media, are all presented shoulder to shoulder.
Design Indaba Expo
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It all started on 5 June 1903 when the Spartan Harriers committee decided it was time to organise a long distance walk and benchmarked its success with the popularity of walking races in the United Kingdom.
Spartan Harriers wanted to be the pioneers of such a race in the South Peninsula and pl...
Discovery Cape Times Big Walk
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Franschhoek, South Africa's Gourmet Capital, over the weekend of the 17 - 18 July, where locals and visitors will be celebrating the Valley's centuries-old French Huguenot heritage at its annual Bastille Festival.
The Franschhoek Wine Valley has throughout the years been linked with the pursuit...
Franschhoek Bastille Festival
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This 2300km race started in Pietermaritzburg in 2010.
Riders then mountain bike on the Freedom Trail which takes them through the Sisonke section of southern Kwa Zulu Natal and into the Drakensberg before heading across the basin of the Great Karoo and into the Cape mountains
Freedom Challenge
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Golden Arrow Studio hosts FROM AFRICA WITH LAUGH.
In the celebration of the fact that 17 countries on the African continent celebrate 50 years of independence and that the FIFA World Cup came to Africa for the first time, African Arts Institute brings stand-up comedians from around the African cont...
From Africa with Laugh
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WHY To share good talent, unique recipes, knowledge about raw food, inspiring community projects, beautiful product and fun people you encounter in this part of the world. To stimulate a sustainable tourism industry in Knysna and the Garden Route by providing an exciting focus on Knysna's growing re...
Gastronomica
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As Africa's premier celebration of food and lifestyle, the Good Food and Wine Show pinpoints global trends through demonstrations, exhibitions and workshops attracting international professionals and the general public to South Africa.
This event is at Cape Town International Convention Centre.
Good Food and Wine Show
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Almost all the 250 entered trail runners line up at 7:00 for the start of the 10th HANSA Hout Bay Trail Challenge.
The weather conditions were perfect last year with clear skies and 100% visibility which always helps when you have to circumnavigate the mountains of Hout Bay and have an elevat...
Hansa Hout Bay Trail Challenge
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The Hermanus Whale Festival - the only enviro arts festival in South Africa held annually to celebrate the return of the Southern Right whales to the waters of Walker Bay, our magnificient environment and the arrival of Spring.
The festival attracts more than 100 000 visitors to Hermanus annua...
Hermanus Whale Festival
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Welcome to our world of wine! Wine Festivals are an experience for all who love fabulous wine accompanied by great food. The Hermanus Wine and Food Fair has all the above and located in the beautiful Hemel en Aarde Village, Hermanus. Three days of indulgence offering a wide array of world-class prem...
Hermanus Wine and Food Fair
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Baxter Theatre, Flipside presents Inxeba lomphilisi (The wound of a healer), "It is an interdisciplinary, multimedia production that draws its aesthetic from African traditions and urban rituals to explore the theme of identity and belonging.
It is performed in isiXhosa but explores various st...
Inxeba lomphilisi (The wound of a healer)
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Experience the challenge of Southern Africa with this 7 day, 250km self sufficiency run in the Great Kalahari Desert.
Kalahari Augrabies Extreme Marathon
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Villa Pascal Theatre presents 'Keep It Country' a country music performance by Matt Hurter.
Keep It Country
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Gold Fields Environmental Education Centre in Kirstenbosch NBG hosts Eco-Art Holiday Workshop sessions for children presented by Sue Nepgen, art and environmental educationalist.
"Activities on the theme of 'A Joyful Look at Biodiversity and Climate' include an introductory discussion, a guided...
Kirstenbosch Eco-Art Holiday Workshop
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Concert Hall presents 'Klatzow at 65', a premiere of two works by Peter Klatzow, the Six Poems of Arthur Buxton and the 24 Preludes for piano performed by a pianist Adrian More and a baritone Brad Liebl.
Klatzow at 65
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Experience the wonderful, irresistible story-telling magic of ABBA’s timeless songs in the world’s number one smash hit musical MAMMA MIA!
Enjoyed by over 40 million people in more than 170 major cities around the globe, MAMMA MIA!
It is the most successful theatrical production ever!
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MAMMA MIA!
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A grand summer bash, the Mother City Queer Costume Party has put Cape Town on the international map of queer culture.
Every year it brings together all the "queer tribes" in matching costumes at Cape Town High School.
A strict "no costume, no entry" policy ensures a colourful and original...
Mother City Queer Costume Party
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The Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon takes place annually in Cape Town.
The first race was held in 1970 and only 26 runners took up the unknown challenge.
Billed as the world’s most beautiful marathon, it attracts around 26 000 participants, providing all with breathtaking scenery, a gruell...
Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon
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The Out In Africa South African Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (OIA) was launched in 1994 to celebrate the inclusion, in the South Africa Constitution, of the clause prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.
Out In Africa Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
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The original ROAD RACE ROUTE in the direction of Sedgefield / Wilderness is being used for the FIRST TIME since 2004
Improved MOUNTAIN BIKE ROUTES with exciting new sections of riding that are usually closed to the public.
Enter both the 85km Mountain Bike Event and 100km Road Race and ge...
Pick 'n Pay Weekend Argus Rotary Knysna Cycle Tour
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The Prince Albert Town and Olive Festival celebrates Western Cape produce Olyf-, Voedsel- en Wynfees (as olives, food and wine are known in Afrikaans).
Prince Albert comes alive with street shows by companies like the South African National Circus School, the Jazz Art Dance Company and Slam-Ja...
Prince Albert Town and Olive Festival
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South Africa's close-knit Judah Square Rastafarian Community celebrates its way of life with the lively Rastafarian Earth Festival.
Enjoy a jam-packed programme of activities and events on Judah Square, including live reggae bands and colourful costumes
Rastafarian Earth Festival
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Baxter Theatre presents 'Romeo's Kiss' a ballet/dance work by Sean Bovim, based on the story of Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo's Kiss
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Roxette, the Swedish duo of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle, are a seductive mix of romantic ballads and smart pop with tongue-in-cheek lyrics. With classic ballads such as "It Must Have Been Love" and "Listen To Your Heart", they occupied the dance charts and became one of Sweden's most loved acts.
Roxette - Cape Town
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The South African Navy hosts the fun-filled 2 day event in Simon's Town at the East Dockyard.
SA Navy Festival
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The annual Artscape School Arts Festival is packed with excitement and energy.
During the festival between 80 and 100 educational institutions – mainly schools – are to stage a variety of performances such as singing and dancing on the professional Artscape stage.
This celebration of art...
School Arts Festival
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An exhibition by The Ibhabhathane Project – which provides art lessons for all school learners including LSEN and ABET learners.
The Project also provides in-service training for teachers in visual arts and design and develops learning support materials.
The Ibhabhathane Project particul...
School Arts Festival Visual Arts Exhibition
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See the penguins from the beach boardwalks or swim with them in the ocean.
Events range from the Best-dressed Penguin Parade to beach games, guided environmental walks and the Anything that Floats boat race.
Celebrating the resident colony of cute-looking birds, Simon's Town's Penguin Fes...
Simon's Town Penguin Festival
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Stellenbosch Wine Festival is the Cape region's premier wine event.
It attracts thousands of local and international visitors.
In addition to more than 500 varieties of wine to taste and loads of food, the festival features competitions and various children's activities.
The region has ...
Stellenbosch Wine Festival
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Fritha Langerman's Subtle Thresholds on show at Cape Town's Iziko South African Museum.
A fascinating fine art exhibition employs biomedical artifacts, embalmed animals and new artworks to explore the complex inter-relationship between zoological, human and microbial worlds.
Subtle Thresholds
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In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Indian peoples’ arrival in South Africa
Mothi, a sugar worker, comes to the “non-white” bar of the White House Hotel on the KZN North Coast to ‘drown his sorrow’ in the 1950s.
Mothi’s teenage daughter is having an illicit affair with an unknown ‘...
The Lahnee’s Pleasure
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Table Mountain Challenge
The Crazy Store Table Mountain Challenge 2011
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Baxter Theatre Flipside hosts 'The Girl in the Yellow Dress' a play by Craig Higginson and a co-production between The Market Theatre (Johannesburg), Citizens Theatre (Glasgow) and Live Theatre (Newcastle upon Tyne).
The Girl in the Yellow Dress
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The Gravity Adventure Festival in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, near Kleinmond,has a range of adventure disciplines, from kayaking to rock climbing and river rafting among others.
The Gravity Adventure Festival
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In celebration of its anniversary, Dance for All (DFA) presents a gala performance.
It includes a tribute to Prima Ballerina Assoluta Phyllis Spira OMSG, who was Assistant Artistic Director of DFA.
It will also celebrate dance in Cape Town – with companies such as Jazzart Dance Theatre, ...
Two Decades, One Inspiraation
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Vlooi en sy maters is vir die tiende keer terug, dié keer om die geheime skat – die oorspronklike alfabet –
te red.
As die nare heks Bet en haar broer, die towenaar Alfie, hulle hande daarop kry, sal al die letters uit boeke en vanaf rekenaars verdwyn.
Niemand sal iets kan neerskryf n...
Vlooi en die Verlore Skat / Kipper and the Lost Tr
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The Nando’s Cape Town Comedy Festival is the largest comedy project on the African continent and has presented over 160 international acts to well over 100 000 audience members over the last 13 years, placing it firmly amongst the top 5 comedy events in the world.
The festival will once again ...
Vodacom Funny Festival
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The FNB Whisky Live Festival has grown into the largest whisky and lifestyle event of its kind.
It attracts more visitors and brands than any other whisky festival globally.
Organisers have promised that this year’s show – which runs from 3rd to 5th November in Cape Town – will be bigger ...
Whisky Live Festival - Cape Town
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