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It’s Hip to be in J-Bay

Once regarded as a ‘hippie hangout’, this small seaside town in the Eastern Cape has shrugged off its somewhat shaggy image and has gone onto to become a ‘hip’ place to be. This once sleepy hollow of a fishing town has over time ...

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Coastal Bliss in Umtentweni

This well established, leafy garden suburb has long been the area of choice for those opting to make the South Coast home and, unlike its more commercial neighbours, comprises approximately 80 percent permanent ...

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Pringle Bay - At the Foot of Hangklip

This coastal village marks the south-eastern point of False Bay and is proudly located in the heart of the 100 000ha UNESCO Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve (KBR). Poetic nature lovers describe it as a ‘zig zag ribbon of narrow ...

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Are we Going to Reap what we Sow?

It is one thing to hear Julius Malema, the former president of the ANC Youth league stating that the state should be given powers to take over land without having to compensate the owners, but it’s quite another when the deputy ...

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Smart Living, Smart Savings

Climate Smart Cape Town is a public action campaign aimed at the city becoming a more compact, lower carbon and resource efficient environment adapting to the impacts of climate change. The City’s Energy and Climate Action Plan ...

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New Building Standard Regulates Carbon Emissions

At last! Government has taken a stand against SA’s high rate of carbon emissions and the SA Bureau of Standards (SABS) has published a set of minimum standards for environmental sustainability in new and refurbished ...

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Saving Electricity (and Money)

Over the next few weeks we will be looking at energy efficiency. Although we enjoyed fairly cheap electricity until recently, South Africa’s rapid industrialisation has pushed consumption sky-high, a negative consequence of this ...

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Northcliff - A View from the Top

Northcliff, that pinnacle of achievement, when you know you have arrived because you have a view of the entire north of Johannesburg, and beyond, from the ridge that features the highest point in Johannesburg. Unlike the suburbs ...

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Bisley Park Primary School – A Tradition of Lifelong Excellence

One of the oldest schools in the city of Pietermaritzburg in Kwa-Zulu Natal, Bisley Park Primary School provides relevant education in a multi-cultural society. Bisley Park Primary is located on a spacious campus with all of the ...