Well-known local chef and director of the Eden School of Culinary Art, Carol Wicht and her friend, Lydia Barrett had a very narrow escape from the sea near Glentana after deciding against walking their dogs on the beach due to rough seas.

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South Africa's drinking water is among the best in the world, and the country remains one of few in which water can still be consumed from the tap, Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said at the release of the 2012 Blue Drop report.

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South Africans will move one step closer to having smart card IDs when the Department of Home Affairs launches the pilot of its smart ID project, which promises to speed up government services while cutting down on crime and corruption involving identity documents

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According to unconfirmed reports, three surfers narrowly escaped an attack by a Great While Shark, approximately four metres long, at Buffel's Bay yesterday afternoon (May 3).

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The 2012 Knysna Speed Festival, to be held from May 11 to 20, promises a week jam-packed with fast cars, classic cars, go-karts and even 4x4 adventures, to name but a few.

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Five start-up entrepreneurs from South Africa have received the prestigious SEED Award, founded by UNEP, UNDP and IUCN. These initiatives were selected from over 450 applications originating from 75 countries worldwide because of their innovation, their potential to scale up, and their ability to simultaneously create economic, social and environmental benefits and therefore to help meet sustainable development challenges in South Africa.

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Southern Africa's biggest tourism showcase, Indaba 2012, takes place at Durban's International Convention Centre from 12 to 15 May, with more than 13 000 delegates from around the world expected to attend.

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There is no formal policy on the use of cellphones at schools, but Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has welcomed the call to ban them.

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It was his love for the sea that lured him to the great big ocean, but his love for adventure that made him make the Merchant Marines his life, says Captain Pedro Alexander Catarino Montes Pinto, the Master of the luxury cruise liner, the MV Athena that anchored in the bay on Monday, 30 April.

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Former world record holder and South African champion freediver, Trevor Hutton, was joined by Knysna local, Simon Thomas for the first freedive at the Knysna Heads yesterday afternoon (May 3).

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Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has called on South Africans to explore their own country and experience the variety, beauty and world-class service that draws millions of international tourists here every year.

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Shaun Smith and Drikus Bruyns have both achieved their goals set for 2012, when the two members of the Ernie Els & Fancourt Foundation will represent SA in the All Africa Golf Tournament and then shortly after depart on a four week tour to Scotland.

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Table Mountain's status as one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature is official, following confirmation of the results of New7Wonders' global voting process by an international audit.

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President Jacob Zuma, in talks with visiting Indian President Pratibha Devisingh Patil on Wednesday, extended an invitation to the Asian nation to invest in South Africa's massive, state-led infrastructure drive.

Inset: South African President Jacob Zuma introduces Cabinet ministers to Indian President Pratibha Devisingh Patil at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, 2 May 2012 (Photo: GCIS)

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Facebook is on track to make its historic multi-billion-dollar debut on Wall Street on May 18, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

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As South Africans braced themselves for a petrol price increase of 28 cents per litre, Johannesburg motorists queued to fill up their cars on Tuesday evening.

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Nelson Mandela turns 94 on 18 July. A new project aims to honour the great man, and help realise his long-held dream of a proper education for every South African child, by coming to the aid of 94 schools in dire need of new or radically upgraded infrastructure.

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This year's Knysna Speed Festival, the fourth since its inception, was introduced to the media on Thursday, April 19 at a hands-on, pit-style event at the Bodge Engineering workshop.

Inset:  Knysna Tourism CEO, Shaun van Eck, shows his enthusiasm for this year’s Knysna Speed Festival in one of the many soap boxes which will be raced down the Simola Hill. (Photo: Elle Photography.)

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A successful South African educational programme which equips teenagers with maritime skills while they are still at school, has been shortlisted for an international award.

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Entertainment celebrities, from all over South Africa, attending the prestigious MTN Radio Awards in Johannesburg recently, probably did a double take when Plettenberg Bay's own 'Sainted Ozzy' - the hectic Mad Brad of Friday evenings' Rock & Roll Psycho Circus on Knysna FM and MC FM (Plettenberg Bay) - made his unmistakable entrance.

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