From late 2013, South Africa will host the most ambitious attempt yet made on the world land speed record. For the past two years, a team of 317 previously unemployed people have been clearing a desert track for a 1 000 mph car, in the process creating their own world record: the largest land mass cleared by hand.

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For the last three months, everybody at Knysna Elephant Park (KEP) has been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Thandi and Nandi’s calves.  The moment finally arrived in the early hours of Wednesday morning, March 6 when Thandi gave birth to a strong little girl, weighing in at a healthy 82kg.

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Pianist Lukas Vondracek will perform in Knysna on Wednesday, March 20 as part of the Knysna Plett Concert Series.  Born in the Czech Republic in 1986, Vondracek gave his first concert at the age of four. Since then he has visited over 27 countries, giving over 1 000 concerts. He has performed at various festivals in the UK and USA and at recitals at La Cite in Paris, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Tonhalle in Zurich.

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Additional funding required for the George Municipality's portion for the project for the widening of the N2/York Street flyover and pedestrian bridges was referred to the 2012/2013 adjustment budget.

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Facebook introduced a visually richer, mobile device-oriented “news feed” on Thursday, in the most significant changes to date for the social network's most recognisable feature.

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Some glorious George weather greeted visiting guests at the KeNako SA World Juniors on Sunday. Not all players and guests had arrived in George by Sunday morning, but guests from many countries of the world were in George and joined the Am-Am and the after golf festivities.

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Multi-award winning actor Liam Neeson has signed on to play a malevolent leopard in South African animated film Khumba, the second feature from the Cape Town-based producers of Adventures in Zambezia.

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South African mobile communications company Vodacom has joined the country's renewable energy drive by unveiling the largest array of solar panels on a single building in Africa at its offices in Cape Town.

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If recent enquiries – and the visit by a group of travel agents from India - are anything to go by, tourism to Mossel Bay is set to increase over the next few months.  "At the Beeld Holiday show, we had a lot more enquiries than usual from South Africans who said they normally go overseas or to the Indian Ocean islands for their holidays," said Fred Orban, a member of the board of Mossel Bay Tourism.

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Arrangements for Richard Cock's Songs of Praise on Sunday, 17 March are well underway. This is the 6th year Group Editors supports local charities by helping the local music society, school choirs and the South Cape Symphony orchestra to bring Songs of Praise to the Garden Route.

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Cyclist Erik Kleinhans (Team RE:CM), who started his cycling career in George, held off a strong field of local and international riders to claim victory in the 66km route of this year’s Cape Argus Pick n Pay Mountain Bike Challenge.

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Denmark has committed to help South Africa move towards a low-carbon economy by assisting in the growth of the country's renewable energy capacity, particularly in the field of wind-based electricity generation.

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After 23 years in captivity, an elephant from the Bloemfontein Zoo will soon be released back into the wild. Zoo officials decided to free the recently widowed 27-year-old Thandora following the death of her companion. She would soon be joining a herd of elephants in the Gondwana Game Reserve in the Western Cape.

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Preparations are well under way for the annual Discovery Plett Easter Games taking place over the Easter weekend from March 29 to April 1.   The weekend will see adventure-loving athletes competing in a diverse range of events including trail running, surf-ski paddling, mountain-biking, an open-water swim, a township run, a golf challenge and a Kids King of the Beach competition.

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A wide selection of indigenous plants and trees will be on sale during the Garden Route Botanical Garden's annual nursery autumn plant sale taking place on Friday, 5 April and Saturday 6 April.

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The University of Cape Town's Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3-D) is to collaborate with global pharmaceutical firm Novartis to narrow the gap between science and clinical research in order to develop medicines to treat patients in Africa.

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Octogenarian Mally Richards has been honoured with a certificate commemorating his "unprecedented world record in the sport of open water swimming". The 80-year-old, of Jeffreys Bay, completed his 60th Spar River Mile at the weekend, and in recognition of his achievement the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (IMSHF) awarded him the certificate.

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Companies in the Western Cape will get an opportunity to find out more about the opportunities created by South Africa's BRICS membership, and its hosting of the upcoming BRICS summit, at a special forum to be hosted by Brand South Africa and Frontier Advisory.

Inset: The heads of stock exchanges of the BRICS countries announce an alliance between their exchanges to boost emerging market investment on the sidelines of the World Federation of Exchanges annual meeting in Johannesburg, 12 October 2011 (Photo: JSE Limited)

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The Knysna Municipality launched its new website this month in an effort to better communicate the services of the municipality as well as fulfilling legal requirements regarding the Municipal Finance Management Act and the Municipal System Act.

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The proposed Sedgefield initiative to start The Living Cornerstone (TLC) Home for Alzheimer sufferers has received a wonderful donation of a four-bedroom house to provide for the needs of a growing community of people who need specialised care.

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