The Sweet Service Award goes to Woolworths for removing all plastic shopping bags from its stores from 9 November. Shoppers will have to bring their own bags along when they go shopping from that date onwards, a commendable environmental step forward!
The Western Cape has 49 newly-awarded Blue Flag beaches, the province with the highest number out of the 84 Blue Flag beaches, marinas, and boats announced for all of our country in 2015. Grotto Beach in Hermanus won Gold Status this year.
The Western Cape government yesterday approved the expansion of the boundary of Cape Town, to allow the City of Cape Town to create the Wescape ‘mini city’ suburb between the N7 and the West Coast Road, and between Atlantis and Melkbosstrand, with 200000 houses, 800000 residents, and costing R140 billion to develop.
The land used for the development is currently farmland, and it will take 20 years for the Wescape development to be completed. The approval granted will only allow the expansion of the City’s ‘urban edge’, and does not automatically give the developers the right to go ahead, as further approvals will have to be applied for, such as environmental authorisation, rezoning, and subdivision of the land, according to the Cape Times.
The approval of the expansion of the city’s urban edge has met with mixed reaction, having Continue reading →
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* China is set to become the largest wine producer in the world in the next five years it is suggested.
* The majority of tourists doing Township Tours in Cape Town felt safe, a study conducted by UCT students in winter has found.
* Tourists travelling in Mpumalanga are being intimidated and fined excessively for alleged driving transgressions, and have to pay in cash for these, reported Getaway editor Cameron Ewart-Smith, based on feedback he received from tourists. He described the practice as ‘shocking’, and damaging to tourism in South Africa.
* The best time of the day to get the maximum energy benefit from a cup of coffee is between 9h30 – 11h30, research has shown. The least effective Continue reading →