For more info, contact Cathy at 0825715990

RAMfest is already a firm favourite on the music calendar of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg and its now being brought to Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth. So come and enjoy the extraordinary line-up of Fokofpolisiekar, Volume Conflict, Niskerone, Herotide plus many more.

Tickets available at the Ticket Break box office. Please note: Your festival ticket does not include camping, however camping is available but must be booked prior to your arrival directly with Hume Park management.

Venue: Hume Park
Contact: Audiomatik Events on +27 (0)21 883-3607 for more information.

Contact Bianca on +27 (0) 41 582 5150

Warmer Gardens, 118 Main Rd Walmer, Port Elizabeth

FNB NMMU centre Howard Mnisi says the team is confident they can secure a good win, having the home-ground advantage,”Obviously it was disappointing after the UJ game. We were on a high and then the next week we’re down again, but I think the guys are keen to play UCT. We are getting excited for it and I am sure we can win this one.” Said a positive Msini.

The FNB NMMU ‘Madibaz’ have previously won against Shimlas and then lost  against UJ in the leadup to the match that will be played this afternoon.

For more information on matches and news see the VasityCup Website

Howard Mnisi in action – image courtesy of http://varsitycup.co.za

His up coming events:

Black and White Dogs:

Saturday 25 Feb at Jesters, PE.

Friday 9 March at Raggies, East London.

Saturday 10 March, Grahamstown.

The Jack Rabbit Slims:

Friday, 2 March at The Music Kitchen, PE

The contest has been downgraded due to the financial difficulties of the Billabong company. The Australian surf-wear company announced earlier this month it was cutting jobs and shutting shops.

The event will be run as a six-star contest, the level below the main tour and will mean that the top professional surfers in the world will probably not come and surf the event anymore as it will now be just a qualifying event for the World Championship Tour.

Just what effect the downgrade of the Billabong Pro will have on Jeffreys Bay remains to be seen. Over the years July has seen a mini tourism boom as the town has filled up with people coming from all over South Africa and the world to watch the best surfers in the world take on the best right hand point break in the world.

The one positive will be the opportunity the downgrade will opens the event up  to South Africa’s aspiring pro surfers for the first time in 20 years.

“We agreed as a board that whilst very regrettable, the commercial realities are such that a pragmatic approach by ASP at this time seemed sensible,” said ASP chairman Richard Grellman.

Source http://www.iol.co.za

The area also boasts a significant amount of endemic species which are only found here and nowhere else in the world. In this way our very own city represents a large percentage of South Africa’s biological diversity in that such a concentration of biomes, particularly within a city, is unparalleled in the world and results in an extraordinary diversity of landscapes, plants and animals.

For more information on the areas where you can see the different Biomes our city and surrounds has to offer go to the NMBT Website

You have the opportunity to:

•    Meet a large number of writers from all over SA;
•    Establish contacts with publishers;
•    Attend seminars on books, writing workshops, storytelling & scriptwriting, poetry;
•    Be part of a focused exhibition on EC writers by the National English Literary Museum.

The fair is open to the public.

Date: 15 March 2012 – 18 March 2012

You are welcome to join us and participate in this exciting event in PE

The Mandela Bay Book Fair is organized by Imbizo Arts and Ikhwelo Writing Initiative (IWI) in Port Elizabeth.