A Day On The Beach 8

LOVELY, JuST RIGHT

Mandi is a day resort with excellent facilities, including a large freshwater pool with waterslides, landscaped lawns with playground apparatuses, picnic tables and braai sites, as well as long, sandy beaches that are good for walking and fishing. Lifesavers are on duty every day during Blue Flag season, December to March and keep watch over a stretch of beach that is safe for swimming in the warm water. This beach also offers scenic views of the Wolfgat Nature Reserve’s limestone cliffs.

Mandi was reserved for black people during the apartheid era. Its name can be translated as lovely, just right. A little way offshore is a rocky outcrop known as Kapteinsklip, which means ‘captain’s stone’. The resort was granted Blue Flag pilot status for the 2003 summer season and awarded full status a year later. It has maintained Blue Flag status ever since.

Bikini Beach lies east of Gordon’s Bay harbor and is rated one of Cape Town’s top beaches due to its excellent facilities, cleanliness and safety standards. It is sheltered from the wind and is especially popular among trendy teenagers and Stellenbosch students for sunbathing, swimming and socialising. The beach slope is steeper here than in the rest of Gordon’s Bay, dropping off quickly into deep water, so the waves are larger and more powerful, sometimes breaking as “dumpers’’ on the shore. Surfers ride the left-hand break off the harbour wall, ending up at the beach.

bIKINI beAcH

A GEM AT GORDON’S BAY

IT’S BEAuTIFuL AT THE BALLET 19 NoVember - 3 December

MEMORIES

1 - 4 December

JAZZ AND CLASSICAL

4 December

December

IT’S BEAUTIFUL AT THE BALLET

19 NOVEMBER - 3 DECEMBER

tHeatre on tHe Bay

The South African National Dance Trust is thrilled to announce the news of an inspiring and uplifting production. A program of short, joyful works by renowned South African choreographers, Veronica Paeper, Sean Bovim and Adele Blank.

This project has been especially created by SANDT to support and provide a professional opportunity to independent dancers, choreographers and theatre practitioners.

We look forward to sharing this wonderful evening of dance with you.

MEMORIEs

1 – 4 DECEMBER

Baxter tHeatre The 2021 Jazz & Classical Encounters Festival Vol 3 at Spier Amphitheatre, presented proudly in association with Ian Burgess Simpson Pianos and Fazioli, features some of the best South African jazz and classical artists in a feast of contemporary music.

The one-day festival promises to touch souls with a mix of jazz and classical icons for the next eight hours. This special edition of that must-see event, paying tribute to many artists who have passed on in the last 12 months and more specifically legendary soprano Mam Sibongile Khumalo and renowned Cape Town pianist Andre Petersen, includes refreshment breaks and a chance to absorb the exquisite atmosphere of the estate.

SCHALK BEzUIDENHOUT - FEELING GOOD

6 DECEMBER

kaLk Bay tHeatre

Memories is a dance show performed by students from Dance Co previously known as Viv Pullin School of Dance. It is a walk through the past including the best choreographies over the past 45 years. Dance performed will be modern, contemporary, musical theatre and hip hop.

An opening night will have guest studios from Cape Town performing and the audience can enjoy a feast of Dance

JAzz AND CLASSICAL ENCOUNTERS FESTIVAL VOL 3

Our favourite Afrikaans comedian that speaks broken English is back! Stronger, funnier, and with a thicker snor. When we say ‘stronger’ we mean mentally. Physically he still has the body of a very tall grade 5. Schalk had a lot of free time during the lockdown. What did he do with all this free time? He wrote a show.

A very, very funny show (we haven’t personally seen it, but Schalk gave us his word). So come join Schalk for an hour and a half… ag, who are we kidding? You know that Schalk always ends up having too much fun and does 2 hours!