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Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines

* Eskom remains a laugh-a-minute, its CEO Tshediso Matona saying yesterday to a meeting of 100 business and agriculture executives that ‘one unexpected event at any of its power stations can push the country to the total failure of the national electricity system that may take weeks to resolve’. Loadshedding was predicted for late last week, but did not take place. It has now been predicted for next week. Economists predict that Eskom’s ability to prevent loadshedding will influence the country’s economy. A shortage of diesel appears to be affecting electricity supply.

* The City of Cape Town plans to revise its loadshedding schedule, to make it more equitable and fair to all its residents from 1 February. This comes in response to the claim by COSATU Western Cape leader Tony Ehrenreich that the City’s current loadshedding schedule is ‘racist and unfair’, and plans to take the matter to the Human Rights Commission!

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The Sweet Service Award goes to the Hussar Grill in Camps Bay, for recently hosting the guest houses and hotel concierges in Camps Bay to a complimentary lunch, to thank them for business sent their way in the past year. The guest house lunch was an opportunity for the owners and managers of the accommodation establishments to connect, and to exchange notes about the season lying ahead. The restaurant is popular amongst tourists and locals, for its good value meat dishes, and parking availability. Each guest also received a ‘goodie box’, containing some treats with the menu update.

The Sour Service Award goes to COSATU provincial secretary Tony Ehrenreich, for allegedly telling striking farm workers in De Doorns: “There is already blood on the farm workers and unless it stops there will be blood on the farmers of these farms. We will grab the land and give it to the rightful owners”. The Freedom Front is to ask the Human Rights Commission to investigate his address for hate speech. Ehrenreich denies having made these comments, reports the Cape Times.

The WhaleTales Sweet & Sour Service Awards are presented every Friday on the WhaleTales blog. Nominations for the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be sent to Chris von Ulmenstein at info@whalecottage.com. Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog, and in the WhaleTales newsletters on the www.whalecottage.com website.