A Department of Health grant to the value of R45-million has been approved to fund the extension of the Knysna Provincial Hospital. In order of priority, the hospital will receive a new emergency centre, pharmacy, administration building, outpatient department and a new radiography department.

Inset: The Knysna Provincial Hospital Board members are excited about the recent approval of R45-million to extend the hospital. From left are Elizabeth van Huyssteen, Edna October, Georlene Wolmarans (Knysna’s executive mayor), Richard Dawson (speaker and chairman of the hospital board), Olwen Toms and Dina Arends (Photo: Knysna-Plett Herald).

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Mossel Bay-based Why Honey? has been named a winner in the SEED Awards for 2011.


Inset: Hastings Chikoko, Head of IUCN South Africa, and Head of Constituency Support and Communications for Eastern and Southern Africa, Why Honey? director Riaan Bosch, and Lucy Morassutti, national sales director for Hisense South Africa, at the SEED Awards conference in Johannesburg, where Why Honey? received its SEED Award for 2011.

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Didi Coertze, a former pupil of York High School, lost her battle with cancer on Saturday afternoon (14 April) at 16:15 after being admitted to hospital at 02:00 that same morning.

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South Africa has capitalised on the awareness generated by the 2010 World Cup, with international tourist arrivals growing by 3.3% last year with over 8 million tourists visiting South Africa last year, Minister of Tourism Martinus van Schalkwyk said on Thursday.

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The renowned New York-based Tribeca Film Festival will be coming to South African shores on a five-year franchise starting in 2013, creating a new platform for local and African film-makers.

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US Masters runner-up Louis Oosthuizen continued in strong vein by capturing the European Tour's Malaysian Open by three shots on Sunday. His performance highlighted an excellent tournament for South African golfers

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Most people will remember the Mainstay advertisement depicting a luxurious yacht complete with beautiful girls draping themselves on its deck: "You can stay as you are for the rest of your life, or you can change to Mainstay."

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Two people have died and one person is a serious condition following a single vehicle accident near the Garden Route's Sedgefield on the N2 in the Western Cape, paramedics said on Sunday.

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Already well loved by local and international tourists, the town of Wupperthal in the Cederberg mountains of the Western Cape now boasts a new, community-driven offering - the Cederberg Donkey Cart Route.

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Over eight-million tourists visited South Africa in 2011 - a 3.3% increase over the 2010 World Cup year that would, if football-specific arrivals were not counted, have amounted to a 7.4% increase over 2010, well ahead of the global average.

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In a last-ditch attempt to save the Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe, Western Cape Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Tourism, Allan Winde will be knocking on the door of Transnet CEO Brian Molefe for a final answer as to what his intentions are with regard to the Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe.

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The lives of Thembalethans will be changed for the better in more than one way when a new shopping complex, Thembalethu Square opens in their midst on 1 September. The building is already roof height.

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South Africa's track and field athletes have to compete in the Yellow Pages SA Senior Championships in Port Elizabeth this week to be considered for selection for the London Olympics. Expect a top-quality, action-packed competition!

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ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema and three others were ordered by the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday (10/04/2012) to file responding papers to a defamation case lodged by DA leader Helen Zille

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A team of researchers of the Mammal Research Institute (MRI) of the University of Pretoria began conducting research in Plettenberg Bay on Bryde's whales on April 2 and will continue to do so until April 21.

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South Africa already has one of the world's highest mobile banking user rates, and this is set to accelerate, thanks to a 100% mobile phone penetration rate and an innovative banking sector that is pushing hard to reach a large, still unbanked segment of the country's population.

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According to Winnie the Pooh, “You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes” - which is exactly what motivates the members of the Toys For Africa Charity Drive who’ll be visiting the Southern Cape during May.

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Milnerton High School head boy Jake Wootton has died in hospital after a car crashed into the group with which he was walking alongside Hermanus’s Main Road, where he was holidaying for Easter.

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Bubba Watson conjured a miraculous par from pine straw to become only the third left-hander to win the Masters with an emotional playoff victory over Louis Oosthuizen at Augusta National on Sunday.

Inset: Bubba Watson of the US (C) receives his green jacket from 2011 champion Charl Schwartzel of South Africa as Augusta National Golf Club Chairman William Porter Payne (R) applauds - after the 2012 Masters Golf Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, April 8, 2012.(Reuters)

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Roman Catholics and Protestants in the Holy Land are commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in Good Friday prayers and processions through Jerusalem's Old City.

Inset:  A man depicting Jesus holds a cross as he walks towards the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Good Friday in Jerusalem's Old City April 6, 2012. Christian worshippers retraced the route Jesus took along Via Dolorosa to his crucifixion in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

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