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The Horse Whisperer GIRL
The Horse Whisperer Girl:
THIS IS NOTHING SHORT OF AWESOME .......Notice that it is just her and the horse - no bit, no saddle.She uses signals and touch cues only ... Nothing ElseOh yes, this is NOT her horse.She is training it for someone else.She obviously has a relationship with this horse and has won his heart and Soul.This girl riding the horse is in her 20's.Her father passed away just 24 days befor ...
Tannie Kieta’s Cucumber Salad Recipe
Cool, refreshing Cucumber Salad is delicious any time of the year. This delicious salad was made by Tannie Kieta. Tannnie Kieta and Oom Willie van der Merwe where my kids godparents and was very dear to our family, having no children of their own, they spent many Sundays with us, going boating or just having a braai. Needless to say Tannie Kieta’s Cucumber Salad was a winner every time as she made the salad ...
The Sun Shines on Deon Boshoff
Deon Boshoff, head of the winemaking team that makes Place in the Sun wines at Adam Tas cellars in Stellenbosch, is himself the son of farm workers and grew up on an apple farm in Elgin. He was able to study winemaking with the help of a bursary available to the children of farm workers.
PLACE IN THE SUN: GENEROUS-HEARTED WINES ACCELERATING UPLIFTMENT
Place in the Sun, a new range of big-hearted, ...
The Perfect FRIKKADEL (Meatballs) Recipe
I am glad for your sake if you think you have a flawless Frikkadel recipe but let this Mamma introduce you to my yummier Frikkadel!
Here are a few tips for the yummier Frikkadel
The secret of a perfect Frikkadel is to mix the mixture gently with two forks, if you over mix you will most definitely have cannon balls - or maybe you have a better word for them!
Mince with a higher fat content wil ...
The Chichester Biltong Company
Like you – we’re South African through and through. And like you – we now live in Blighty. But there was one thing we couldn’t live without – Biltong. So we decided to make our own.
We use traditional Boer recipes, handed down through generations. And we only use British beef. In fact, we only use meat sourced from our friend Tony’s farm down the road in Sussex. Our Biltong is tr ...
Trees Cocooned in Spiders Webs
This is scary – the first image doesn’t even look real! It looks like something out of an illustrated book...
An unexpected side-effect of the flooding in parts of Pakistan has been that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters. Because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water has taken so long to recede, many trees have become cocooned in spiders webs ...
The NEW Chakalaka Restaurant in Wimbledon
Some of you might already know the Horse & Groom Pub and restaurant in Wimbledon owned and run by Miguel and Heidi Coelho from Pretoria. The couple have managed to bring a touch of South Africa to the place, although the feel and look of the pub is still very British.
They started serving food under the Chakalaka brand inside the Horse and Groom in 2010 and with the success of the venture they ha ...
T-shirt Folding Trick
Thanks to the wonderfull world of YouTube we have found the perfect way to fold your T-shirt in 2 seconds flat. The first video on T-Shirt folding is the original and the second a translated to English version. Enjoy this T-shrit folding trick!
Township Jazz in London
On Thursday June 9th South African harmonica virtuoso Adam Glasser will be appearing at the Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington, south west London performing a unique evening of melodic township jazz standards and original compositions from his award winning album "Free at First" and his soon to be released new album "Mzansi". Adam will be accompanied by top British jazz musicians Robin Apsland (piano), Alec D ...
Three of South Africa's airports voted best in Africa
South Africa's three major international airports, OR Tambo International, Cape Town International and King Shaka International, scored a treble at the 2011 Skytrax World Airport Awards, being named the top three airports in Africa.
For the first time since the prestigious awards were established in 1999, Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport (formerly known as Johannesburg International Airport) w ...
The Gugulethu Tenors CD review
The Gugulethu Tenors, it has a great ring to it don’t you think! Hailing from one of the townships just outside Cape Town, this group combines some Italian operatic classics with a few African favourites to create a self-titled debut album that is refreshing to the ear, especially with the twist of their African accents adding a depth to define them! They have indeed made the opera genre their own with thei ...
The secret to Spud’s success
The secret to Spud’s success
As the movie Spud continues to real in critical acclaim and fabulous reviews, its director Donavan Marsh says the spot-on casting of its lead actor Troye Sivan was one of the most important things that made this movie’s success.
Marsh told the UK arts and entertainment writer Pierre de Villiers that his movie would have lived or died by the quality of the actor playing Spud. ...
The Lion's Share...
Since Tribe After Tribe's move from South Africa in 1986, the band have become recognised internationally, as pioneers in the world of rock. Now based in California, they have been twice invited by rock peers Pearl Jam to open for them on two international tours of Europe and America.
They have also twice been voted as ‘best live band of the year’ by prominent rock magazine Rockhard, who also voted Trib ...
Taxi make a good turn!
The tale of an old man who tragically loses his wife in a car accident. Driven slightly demented by grief, he sets about inventing a time machine to take him back to the day of the accident so that he can change the past...
The Turn, Taxi Violence's latest music video offering, won two awards at the Wirral International Film Festival held in the UK in October - best director of music video 2010 (Ryan Kruge ...
The Cliff and Zuma showdown
South Africa’s Pop Idols judge and 5FM DJ Gareth Cliff’s passionate attack on the South African government scored him a lunch date with the president and made him a hero of about everybody who is critical of the ANC government.
In the letter titled “Dear Government” posted on his website Cliff calls Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande "ugly" and says Zuma's children, who were born out of wedlock, were ...
The Mother City of Entrepreneurship
The City of Cape Town has partnered with Spain's city of Barcelona to develop a long-term strategy to increase the number of entrepreneurs. Cape Town's economic director Mansoor Mohamed said that the aim was to set up an 'entrepreneurship ecosystem' in the city to make life easier for those starting small businesses.
An entrepreneur needs a simple way to access tools and services to be successful. That's w ...
The Arch and his desire to drink more Rooibos
Proudly South African, humble, open-minded, 79 and always smiling is a description that effortlessly captures this key facilitator of the new South Africa. It has also been said that he coined the term 'The rainbow nation'! Affectionately known as 'The Arch', Desmond Tutu has chosen today, his 79th birthday, to retire from public life.
And what a life of service he has lovingly shared and bestowed upon Sou ...
The countdown to Die Antwoord's interational album laun...
With less than a week til the launch of the album from SA zef rappers Die Antwoord, the hype is building once again! In the bottom left corner of their website is a countdown clock as the day of launch nears... And on the right hand side it says 'Parental advisory, explicit content!"
They've also shot a new video entitled Evil Boy in a similar style to Enter the Ninja, and have so far released a teaser tra ...
The Best of Barbarian Rugby on Sky Sports
The Best of Barbarian Rugby on Sky Sports
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Twenty20 Champions League knocks off
The eyes of the cricketing world will be on South Africa this month as the Twenty20 Champions League knocks off on our southern shores.
The Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, St. Georges Park in Port Elizabeth, Kingsmead Stadium in Durban and Centurion Park in Centurion will be the four host venues, which gets under way on Friday, September 10.
According to Twenty20 Champions League Chairman, Shashank ...
