A heart transplant performed 27 years ago has given rise to a 23-year long love story. It also gave a home to a little orphaned girl. Hendrika and Hendrik van Wyk would never have met and married were it not for Hendrika’s donor heart that gave her a new lease on life. Hendrika’s second chance at life also helped to provide a home to 16-year-old Riká Marie, their much cherished adopted daughter who completes the van Wyk family circle.

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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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Knysna's municipal budget for the financial year 2012/ 13 is the first full Democratic Alliance budget for Knysna. This budget, now called the Medium Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework (MTREF) is valid until 2014/2015.

Inset:  Knysna’s muncipal director of financial services, Grant Easton, explained that the 2012/13 budget depicts the direction in which Knysna’s new DA government wishes to move.

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This year's Sedgefield Slow Festival (April 5 - 9) promises to be another action-packed festival, including wholesome goodness, the great outdoors, lots of fun and lovely food to share with family and friends.

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The winning images from Mossel Bay’s first Responsible Tourism Photo Safari - which took place on Saturday the 18th of February - will be announced at a cocktail function and exhibition next Tuesday, the 10th of April.

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A cheetah released into the wild four years ago at Mossel Bay’s Garden Route Game Lodge has given birth to four healthy cubs.

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Academics of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Free State made history in Africa once again last week, with the implant of a special pulmonary heart valve.

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South Africa's economy is expected to grow by 3 percent in 2012 - higher than previously forecast - on the back of a favourable global outlook, says Reserve Bank governor Gill Marcus.

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With hefty fuel price hikes set to kick in on Wednesday, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters has urged South Africans to be economical in their fuel use - and creative in finding ways to ease the impact of the increases.

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South Africa's Burry Stander and Swiss star Christoph Sauser successfully defended their Absa Cape Epic title on Sunday after dominating the eight-day, seven-stage event from start to finish. The all-South African duo of Kevin Evans and David George placed second

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The number of foreign buyers of South African residential property is once more on the increase, according to FNB Property Barometer figures - this time, with a significant proportion of buyers from Africa.

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A record field of over 25 000 runners will line up for South Africa's Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon on Saturday. The half-marathon has attracted the biggest field in the event's history, with over 16 000 participants, more than half of whom are women

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In association with José Cuervo Tequila and MK Saturday 7 April 2012 sees the revival of a festival favourite, Kaktus Op Die Vlaktes, at its new venue, Jam Street Amphitheatre just outside Oudtshoorn.

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Marchers are invited to take to the streets this afternoon at 16:30, in Vrede Street in Oudtshoorn to take part in the Absa KKNK Anti Rhino Poaching campaign march to protest against the constant butchering of rhinos - this while there is no proven healing properties in their horns.

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Knysna orthopaedic and spine surgeon, Dr Michael Verrier is a man of diverse passions. When he isn't performing surgery, the 1.94m tall Verrier is pushing the limits in his racing car on the track at Killarney in Cape Town, and sometimes at other race tracks around in the country.

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The South African Reserve Bank has left its key repo rate unchanged at 5.5% following the second meeting of its monetary policy committee (MPC) this year.

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The Absa KKNK, which will be presented for the eighteenth time from 31 March to 7 April 2012 in Oudtshoorn, once again celebrates the variety within the arts, inter alia with major drama highlights that will grip the imagination.

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Join millions of people across the globe who will turn off their lights in solidarity for Earth Hour.  Earth Hour is a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) organised global event that sees people and organisations from all walks of life turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour, to raise awareness about the need to take action on climate change.

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For a long time, South African Golf Development Board students have looked to the likes Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, Charl Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen for inspiration. Now they have a new idol - and he is one of their own.

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The new Nelson Mandela Digital Archive is now live on the web, giving the global public - along with historians, educationalists, researchers and activists from around the world - free access to extensive information about the life and legacy of this extraordinary African statesman

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