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Stellenbosch Municipality has launched a short-term programme to ensure a safer town
In a bid to ensure residents and visitors alike are safer, Stellenbosch Municipality, this week, launched a short-term safety-and-security programme, the Safety Monitor Initiative (SMI).
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Boschendal to host vital dialogues about role of regenerative farming in restoring natural ecosystems
Boschendal is hosting a critical discussion on 26 April to raise awareness and funds to support Africa’s leading role in the regeneration of nature.
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Plastic bottles to pencil bags
The Pick n Pay School Club team recently handed pencil bags over to Grade 4 learners at Groendal Primary and Wemmershoek Primary schools in Franschhoek. Made from recycled plastic bottles, the bags aim are a visual way of showing learners…
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Pick n Pay Wine & Food Festival brings Cape wines to consumers
Swirl, sniff and sip your way through the best of South Africa’s wines at the annual Pick n Pay Wine & Food Festival, which kicks off in Cape Town this month.
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Gesoek: Suid-Afrika se mees gesogte terroir-gedrewe wyne
Die SA Terroir-wynpryse word vanjaar die 18de keer uitgedeel en is nou reeds ’n toonaangewende instelling op die wynkalender – wat die geleentheid vir kundige wynmakers en wingerdboukundiges bied om die vele uitsoek grond- en klimaatsterreine in die
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Fairtree team does well at Lourensford
The Fairtree DP World Cannondale racing team completed their first race since the gruelling Cape Epic at the weekend and the results are impressive. Luyanda Tobigunya finished fifth in the Lourensford Classic with an impressive time of 2:27:04, while
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Paul Rowett of Toco turns local economic activity into environmental wealth
Local resident and businessman Paul Rowett, along with associates Joe Pretorius and Niel Schoeman, have found a solution for communities such as Stellenbosch’s to work together to reduce their carbon footprint by creating a currency called Toco. The
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World Earth Day: behavioural science can save us from mass extinction
With households responsible for 72% of global greenhouse gas emissions, Dr Jako Volshenk, senior lecturer in Strategy and Sustainability at Stellenbosch Business School, says on World Earth Day (22 April) it is time to stop waiting for governments to
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‘Hou jul hande van rektor af!’
’n Groep van sowat 50 personeellede van die Universiteit Stellenbosch het Maandagoggend (17 April) voor die Admin B-gebou ter ondersteuning van prof. Wim de Villiers, die rektor en visekanselier, vergader.
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