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Top spot for Le Pront, McNicol in Royal St Andrews Hotel SA Surfing Champs

MARK CARRELS and CRAIG JARVIS Le Pront, McNicol reign at Royal St Andrews SA Open Surfing Championships as Laverge puts in a serious shift Prolific title-winning SA women’s surfer, Louise Le Pront of KZN gave notice she would not be…

Bands on the Beach’s very big thank you for NSRI

Organisation made sure participants in the Port ALfred Easter Festival were safe in the water Port Alfred NSRi’s Station 11 received a R100-thousand shot-in-the-arm after the recent Bands at the Beach (BOB) Concert drummed up support for…

Smile, Port Alfred, you’re on TV!

Port Alfred Easter Festival presented by Port Alfred Tourism TV show premiers tonight The SuperSport production of the Port Alfred Easter Festival will premiere on TV tonight (April 23, 2024). It will feature the Rip Curl GromSearch and…

Explosive performances for final day of the Rip Curl Gromsearch presented by Royal St Andrews Hotel and Sea Harvest

All the winners All the winners © Louis Wulff While the Groms were bright-eyed and bushy-tailed on Sunday morning for day three of the Rip Curl GromSearch, some parents were less bright-eyed after the massive Bands At The Beach music…

Bands at the Beach music festival rocks Port Alfred

Arno Carstens thrilled the crowd at Bands at the Beach at the Port ALfred Easter Festival. Picture: Cally Taylor The Bands At The Beach Music Festival at Guido’s car park stage was an all-time party for Port Alfred. From Georgetown’s…

Action packed second day at the Port Alfred Easter Festival

It was a massive day in Port Alfred as the real action kicked in for many sporting events that make up the Port Alfred Easter Festival. (photos by Ed Gutsche, Sue Waugh, Louis Wulff, Chantal Emslie and others) In conditions that went from…

Exciting second day at Rip Curl GromSearch Port Alfred presented by Royal St Andrews Hotel

Josh Malherbe © Louis Wulff It was an exciting day of surfing for contestants in the Rip Curl GromSearch Port Alfred, presented by Royal St Andrews Hotel and supported by Sea Harvest, with two to three-foot onshore conditions proving…

Scintillating opening day for RipCurl Gromsearch Port Alfred presented by Royal St Andrews Hotel

Epic waves and red-hot surfing encapsulated the opening day of surfing at East Beach for the Rip Curl GromSearch Port Alfred, a junior Surfing South Africa surfing tournament presented by Royal St Andrews Hotel and supported by Sea…

Excitement all round as new Port Alfred Easter Festival launches

“We’re not just presenting the Port Alfred Easter Festival we are putting Port Alfred on the map as the place to be,” said Royal St Andrews Hotel director Justin Bekker at the festival launch at the hotel’s banquet hall on Thursday. The…