Port Alfred surfer Carl Wiersma and fellow South African Leah Lepront will compete at the 2026 Rip Curl GromSearch International Final covered by Sun Bum. The prestigious event will take place in Narrabeen, Australia, from 7 to 10…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
A total of R4 400 was raised for the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) at the Kowie River Swim on Thursday December 28 was R4400. Included in that amount were the winnings of two swimmers who chose to donate their prize money to the…
In an extraordinary tribute to the vision of Royal St Andrew’s Hotel founder, Martin Bekker, his family recently announced a R400000 sponsorship for the Royal St Andrew’s Hotel Amanzi Challenge. The event, founded in 2017, will take place…
Port Alfred Tennis Club officially announced the Port Alfred Corporate Tennis Cup at a special sponsors’ evening and media launch hosted at the Royal St Andrew’s Hotel recently. Participating teams are named after their sponsors, BS…
Put on your best Casablanca outfit on November 26 and join fellow wine lovers at the Thistle Restaurant where Geoff Applewhite will introduce patrons to the wines of Gabriëlskloof. Matched to a sumptuous menu which promises to showcase…
Stenden South Africa held a combined graduation ceremony for the classes of 2019 and 2020 at the Royal St Andrews Hotel on October 22 to make up for the lack of a such a function last year. There were 30 hospitality management graduates…
ROB KNOWLES, TK MTIKI and JON HOUZET Nelson Mandela Day was on Sunday July 18, where businesses, organisations and individuals contributed 67 minutes more in service to their community. Locally, Mandela Day activities seemed fewer than in…
From Talk of the Town, April 22 The student parliament of the University of Fort Hare descended on Port Alfred this weekend to hold its Institutional Student Parliament (ISP) at the Royal St Andrews Hotel. With 83 students and guests in…
A touching tribute from KELLY WICKS FERREIRA, former guest relations at the Fish River Sun Hotel and Country Club Resort At the beginning of 2008 I was fresh out of university and eager to find a job so that I too could be part of the…
Celebrity Aleit Swanepoel will motivate his audience at his talk at the Royal St Andrews Hotel on Saturday November 7. Swanepoel is the founder and owner of the Aleit Group, responsible for planning some of the biggest social events in…
