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Sunshine Holiday 2022 Edition

Please feel free to download and share our FREE Sunshine Holiday 2022 Edition. It is also available throughout Ndlambe at various retailers and businesses. So get your copy today! It has great information about the Ndlambe area as well as…

Sunshine Holiday 2021 Edition

Please feel free to download and share our FREE Sunshine Holiday 2021 Edition. It is also available throughout Ndlambe at various retailers and businesses. So get your copy today! It has great information about the Ndlambe area as well as…

Glaring double standards

South Africa is still reeling from the shocking and horrific scenes of violent rioting, looting, arson and other destruction of property in mostly KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. Most of the videos and pictures came via social media, the…

Sunshine Holiday 2020 Edition

Please feel free to download and share our FREE Sunshine Holiday 2020 Edition. It is also available throughout Ndlambe at various retailers and businesses. So get your copy today! It has great information about the Ndlambe area as well as…

Crushing effects of lockdown clear to see

Eating out at a local restaurant last Friday night, it was pitiful seeing our table was the only one occupied in the entire restaurant, and there were only three of us. It was evidence of how the prohibition on alcohol sales has hurt…

Local restaurants protest against lockdown restrictions

Owners and staff of Port Alfred restaurants and tour operators staged a protest today against lockdown restrictions, including the prohibition on the sale of alcohol, which have been been severely damaging to their businesses, resulting…

A Western Cape restaurant manager has been fined for breaking the curfew by minutes.Image: Thinkstock

Western Cape restaurant manager fined R1,500 for breaking curfew by 7 minutes

The manager of the popular Michael Collins Irish Pub & Restaurant in Struisbaai, in the Western Cape, was left bewildered after being served with a fine for breaking lockdown regulations by seven minutes. According to the restaurant, the…

The Restaurant Association of SA has welcomed the country’s move to lockdown level 1.Image: 123RF/STAS WALENGA

Restaurant association and liquor traders ask to meet president as protest is set to start

The Restaurant Association of SA (Rasa) and liquor traders will on Wednesday meet tourism minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane to hand over a memorandum. The meeting forms part of the association’s nationwide “Million Seats on the Streets”…

Restaurants cannot survive if they are not allowed to serve alcohol with meals, a group led by Cape Town-based Chefs Warehouse argued in court papers filed on Wednesday.Image: 123RF/Andrey Bayda

Restaurants take government to court over ‘absurd’ alcohol, social distancing rules

A group of restaurants is heading to court to force the government to allow their patrons to drink alcohol with their meals. Led by Cape Town-based Chefs Warehouse restaurants, the group said in court papers filed on Wednesday that it…

The Restaurant Association of SA has welcomed the country’s move to lockdown level 1.Image: 123RF/STAS WALENGA

Restaurants trading massively down one week after reopening due to alcohol ban

Restaurant owners have doubts about their ability to turn any profits, or pay off huge debts accumulated in the past few months, given the lockdown restrictions on alcohol consumption. This is the view of the Restaurant Collective. The…

Restaurants will be allowed to operate again from Monday under strict health guidelines, the tourism ministry said on Friday. Image: Edvard Nalbantjan/123rf.com

You will not be allowed to drink alcohol at restaurants when they reopen

Eateries can open for sit-down meals from Monday You can sit down for dinner at your favourite restaurant from Monday, but only if you — and the eatery — follow strict Covid-19 rules and regulations. But you will not be allowed to buy and…

NO SHOW: Like most other events in the area, the 2020 Bathurst Agricultural Show, one of the most prestigious shows of its kind in the country, was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. and businesses in the area were closed with no hope of recovering lost income

An initiative to help save our favourite Bathurst entertainment spots

Save my Spot is an initiative of the Bathurst Development Trust and was born out of the realisation that without some cash flow many restaurants, pubs, hotels, hairdressers and other locked-down businesses that employ and uplift a great…

COVID-19 LIVE UPDATES | Restaurants, takeaways can deliver food under level 4 but no alcohol sales

April 25 2020 – 15:55 ‘Worshippers’ arrested for contravening lockdown regulations A group of worshippers were arrested in Pretoria on Friday afternoon for contravening the lockdown regulations, police said. National police spokesperson…

Sunshine Holiday 2019 Edition

Please feel free to download and share our FREE Sunshine Holiday 2019 Edition – It has great information about the Ndlambe area as well as a comprehensive Diary with events to keep you entertained while you enjoy your stay with us at the…

Sunshine Holiday 2018 Edition

Please feel free to download and share our FREE Sunshine Holiday 2018 Edition – It has great information about the Ndlambe area as well as a comprehensive Diary with events to keep you entertained while you enjoy your stay with us at the…