Heartening news for restaurants which have closed down or face this dilemma as a Covid Third Wave threatens is that the Rupert Family Fund and Remgro will make R100 million available to ‘struggling restaurants’, reports Fin24.
The monies have been made available in partnership with FEDHASA, the Hospitality industry association. The R100 million is money left over from Rupert’s R1 billion Sukuma Fund, which Johann Rupert pledged at the start of the Covid-19 Lockdown in March 2020.
Tuesday 25 May 2021, Day 86 of Level 1 😷
Corona Gratitude 🙏
#Gratitude for a day which started out with mist after the rain last night, and cleared this afternoon to lovely sunshine; for a busy working day; for a walk to Woolworths, getting some steps, bumping into Thomas and Haakon, the German swallows whom I haven’t seen in ages, catching up on our restaurant adventures; for a lovely dinner with Greg Loyd, whom I had not yet met, the co-owner of Villa Rosa Guest House in Sea Point, dining at Utopia, arriving as the moon moved over the city centre, a day before Full Moon; and for being happy, healthy, and free. Continue reading →
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* Nando’s, Prince Harry’s and Beyonce’s favourite chicken take-out in London, will be opening its first store at Gatwick airport.
* Heathrow needs a third runway to deal with the estimated doubling of traffic by 2030. One plan is to build a floating runway on an estuary of the Thames, instead of demolishing houses in a village close to Heathrow.
* Wide-spread flooding hit Somerset West, Franschhoek, Hermanus/Stanford, Strand, and Cape Town on Friday evening. The Franschhoek Pass, Chapman’s Peak, Betty’s Bay/Gordon’s Bay road, and Victoria Road* between Camps Bay and Hout Bay are still closed.
* Eben Sadie of The Sadie Family Wines is the winemaker featured in the weekly Terroirist blog interview!
* Not only is Stellenbosch famous for its many wine estates producing excellent Continue reading →