Four local boys - Luan Bester, Jean-Pierre van der Watt, Ben van Wyk and Norman Seaton - have secured their place in the 2013 Ernie Els SA Primary School Championships by shooting incredible medal round scores of 73, 77, 78 and 78 at the regional final held at Oubaai recently.

Inset: Luan Bester, Jean-Pierre van der Watt, Ben van Wyk and Norman Seaton who will be participating in the 2013 Ernie Els SA Primary School Championships. With them is Primary School League organiser Roelof Roeloffze (back). (Photo: George Herald)

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Last year, after the Sports Festival, the Consolidated Network for People with Disabilities (CNPD) was very upset that virtually no people with disabilities were involved in the annual Mossel Bay Sports Festival.

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Professor Cyril Karabus, who arrived at Cape Town International Airport on Friday following eight months' detention in the United Arab Emirates on charges of which he was finally acquitted, thanked South Africa for its support during his ordeal.

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Three Dutch tall ships, Tecla, Europa and Oosterschelde, were outside the Knysna Heads at about noon today on their voyage around the world along the trade routes of historic times.  A number of boats, including the Knysna NSRI and Ocean Odyssey welcomed the boats to Knysna.

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On Tuesday 4 June Danicka Riehl (20), a participant in the initial six months' Miss Earth South Africa leadership programme, will celebrate her 21st birthday just the way she wanted - by planting 21 trees.

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"The response we've had at the Eden District Municipality stand was simply phenomenal. The region is now really getting the attention it deserves as far as tourism is concerned," the overjoyed Tourism Co-ordinator, Fathima Hassain exclaimed from the Indaba tourism convention in Durban where she represented the Eden District Municipality.

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South Africa's wine industry has seen the biggest grape crop ever produced after a bumper 2013 harvest season and winemakers are predicting a high-quality crop, according to wine consultation organisation VinPro.

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In a significant milestone for South Africa's Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, the first scientific paper based on observations using the KAT-7 radio telescope has been accepted for publication by the prestigious journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomy Society.

Inset: Artist's impression of the Circinus X-1 double star system. When the two stars pass each other closest in their elliptical orbit, the smaller neutron star 'gobbles up' part of its companion star and then fires this matter out again in jets (the orange rays) that blast out at close to the speed of light, causing powerful flares in radio frequencies (Image: SKA South Africa)

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Last week 650 signboards proposing bus stop sites for the George Integrated Public Transport Network's (GIPTN) new transport service had most of George abuzz..

Inset: Ken and Bella Smith at the proposed bus stop site outside their home. The Smiths are great supporters of the GIPTN. (Photo: Myron Rabinowitz)

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The South African surfing team celebrated a superb double at the 2013 Reef ISA World Surfing Games in Panama on the weekend when they were crowned the ISA World Team Champions and captain Shaun Joubert clinched the ISA men's world champion title.

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Mossel Bay surfer, Shaun Joubert, led team South Africa to overall team honours on the final day of the 2013 ISA World Surfing Championship in Santa Catalina, Panama over the weekend.

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An Argentine family of six, traveling the world in a 1928 Graham Paige vintage car, are currently meandering through South Africa.

Inset: This travelling Argentine Zapp family visited Plett's Argentine family at Hola Café. Photographed here are (back, from left) eight-year-old Tehue (born in Argentina), Plett resident, Milagros Murchio and 44-year-old Herman Zapp. In front are 10-year-old Pampa (born in the USA) and 42-year-old Candelaria Zapp with five-year-old Paloma (born in Canada) and four-year-old Wallaby (born in Australia) atop the vehicle. (Photo: coutesy of Grace Harrison at Daron Chatz Photography.)

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South Africa's Bianca Buitendag achieved the best result of her fledgling professional surfing career when she placed third in the Colgate Plax Girls Rio Pro at Barra da Tijuca Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, the fifth stop on the 2013 ASP World Championship Tour (WCT).

Inset: Rising South African surfing star Bianca Buitendag finished third in the 2013 Colgate Plax Girls Rio Pro at Barra da Tijuca Beach in Rio de Janeiro on the elite ASP World Championship (Photo: Kristin Schultz, ASP World Tour)

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The South African Tourism Indaba should expand its platform by attracting even more exhibitors and buyers from the African continent and strengthening the continent's tourism industry, Tourism Minister Marthinus Van Schalkwyk said on Sunday

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South Africa has been voted the top dream destination by members of the world's largest travel and lifestyle social network, Where Are You Now? (WAYN), in the site's recent dream destination competition.

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The Eden to Addo Corridor Initiative (E2A) announced that the Western Cape Minister of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning, Anton Bredell, has signed a groundbreaking document, a request by E2A on behalf of landowners to begin the public participation process to declare the Robberg Coastal Corridor a protected environment.

Inset: Fundraising to purchase three properties between the Robberg Vlei and the Robberg Coastal Corridor continues. If secured, this could create a vital link between the wetland and the corridor and as such the vlei area could be declared a protected environment alongside the Robberg Coastal Corridor.

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South African financial services provider Nedbank is entering the Mozambique banking market through its acquisition of an initial 36% stake in Banco Unico worth US.4-million.

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Closer regional integration will be crucial for addressing underlying weaknesses in Africa's long-term competitiveness and ensuring that the continent delivers on its massive growth promise, according to the Africa Competitiveness Report 2013.

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A Leopard was caught on camera on Cairnbrogie Farm, Airport Road, Plettenberg Bay, in the early hours of Tuesday morning, May 7.  According to Andrew Hill, owner of Cairnbrogie Dairy, one of their Hefer cattle went missing on Sunday night, May 5, which alerted them to the possible presence of a predator.

Inset: This female leopard is alive, well and being celebrated by a new generation farmer, Andrew Hill, who values biodiversity, preferring to manage his livestock rather than culling predators.

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On what started as a cold and rainy day, but turned out to be great for racing purposes, 269 runners and 14 swimmers participated in the annual Two Lagoons race in Wildreness, presented by the Knysna Marathon Club, on Saturday, May 4.

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