Valentine’s Day and ultimately #ZumaExitDay was an auspicious day to have been chosen for the Strauss & Co Preview of its first ever dedicated Contemporary Art Auction, due to take place on Saturday. The Preview was held at the new Cape Town Cruise Liner Terminal in the Cape Town Harbour. Continue reading →
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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 30 May
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* The price of petrol is to drop by 22 cents a liter from Wednesday 4 June, in part due to a stronger Rand, good news for Tourism. (via Kfm news)
* Just when SA Tourism is looking to position South Africa’s tourism product more broadly than just as wildlife and safaris, the Lonely Planet has named our country as the world’s best Wildlife Destination for the third year running!
* The construction work on the expansion of the Cape Town International Convention Centre is going ahead, despite threatening legal action should it do so, the process of the allocation of the tender to the architect consortium being the issue at stake.
* Kamers with the Cape Craft & Design Initiative are joining forces to reflect the designs of Continue reading →
MyCiTi Bus Sweet and Sour Service Awards!
The Sweet Service Award goes to the Queens Beach station of MyCiTi Bus in Sea Point, for its patient offering of information about how the service operates, and in issuing the cards. Ikeraam Hendricks is the cashier at the station, and he arranged that I could enter the station, to check the timetable without the entry going off my card. He also offered us the Atlantic Sun wrap-around about the service, when we asked for information.
The Sour Service Award goes to the MyCiTi Bus service, its bosses at the City of Cape Town, and the Mayoral Committee member for Transport, Roads, and Stormwater Brett Herron, who could not explain why the new MyCiTi Bus stop sign names on Ocean View Drive had such bizarre names such as CPUT, Convention Centre, and Roodebloem Road! The Councillor is not good at replying to Tweets, Continue reading →
MyCiti Bus starts roll-out onto the Atlantic Seaboard this weekend!
The MyCiTi Bus route in Sea Point (connecting commuters to Fresnaye, the Civic Centre and the V&A Waterfront) will begin operating this weekend (via Beach Road and High Level Road), on 2 November. The long-awaited roll-out of the service to Camps Bay is on 30 November, about 18 months after its promised start date! By this weekend 83 MyCiTi Buses will be operating in Cape Town, increasing to 107 buses by the end of November.
News24 reports that the MyCiTi bus service will begin operating in Vredehoek, Oranjezicht, Sea Point, Melkbosstrand, and Duynefontein this coming Saturday. On 30 November the route from the new V&A Waterfront Silo (the previous Clocktower area) to the Civic Centre and Camps Bay via Kloofnek Road will commence. The planned introduction of the N2 Express from Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha, which was scheduled to be launched in December, appears to be Continue reading →