One of the best tennis players of all time, Roger Federer arrived in the Mother City to play his first fully-fledged tennis match in his mom, Lynette’s birthplace. 38-year-old Federer, who has won 20 Grand Slam titles, will play in a charity match against Spaniard Rafael Nadal tomorrow in the Cape Town Stadium. The two will try to break the world record for most people at a tennis match. Federer, who has given back to
Reigning Miss Universe Zozibini Tunzi will return to South Africa for her official homecoming celebration this Saturday since taking the title on December 8 in Atlanta, Georgia, in the US. As the 68th Miss Universe winner, Tunzi will embark on a week-long festivity that includes visits to Johannesburg, Cape Town, Mthatha and the two villages she grew up in – Tsolo and Dutywa in the Eastern Cape. Tunzi says she is thrilled to be coming
Oceans-advocate and endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh became the first person to swim underneath an Antarctic Ice sheet on Jan. 23. He did it to highlight the effects of climate change. Pugh, 50, swam one kilometre in a supra-glacial lake, which forms when meltwater from a glacier collects on the surface of an ice sheet. He says he was shocked by the amount of water he saw down there. “What is happening in East Antarctica now
South African Plastics Pact welcomed
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The City of Cape Town has become the first municipality, not only in Africa, but also the World, to sign up to the Plastics Pact. Spearheaded by the World Wide Fund for Nature, the pact aims to change the way plastic products and packaging are designed, used and re-used, to prevent plastics from ending up in the environment. The pact will see a boost in cross-border collaboration to fight plastic-pollution, between South Africa and its
The Western Cape Government and the City of Cape Town has taken the first crucial steps in implementing the Western Cape Safety Plan as the first 500 Learner Law Enforcement Officers signed their employment contracts with the City of Cape Town. The first 500 Officers have been deployed to the communities where they are needed most. In their first few months of deployment the officers will receive an induction which includes in-field training to orientate
