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Holiday highlights There’s so much more culturally, historically and visually to Durban than our Golden Mile’s glorious offering of sun, sea and surf WORDS: ANNE SCHAUFFER
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urban’s beaches and promenade are undoubtedly highlights of the city, and regulars will testify to the sense of pride and freedom felt as you cycle, run, walk, skateboard, or use any other non-motorised transport, from the Blue Lagoon/Umgeni River end to uShaka Marine World. In the not-too-distant future, of course, the promenade extension which began recently, will provide additional kilometres hugging the ever-changing vista of the harbour mouth and along the esplanade.
Better-known assets uShaka Marine World is one of the world’s top aquariums and uShaka Wet ’n Wild is an extensive water theme park to keep the little ones happy and busy. Take a two-minute SkyCar ride up the Moses Mabhida Stadium arch, step onto the platform and take in the unparalleled 360º views of Durban and beyond... or test your nerves on the Big Rush Big Swing, flinging yourself off in a 220m arc over the stadium.
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There are professional walking tours of inner-city Durban, incorporating Warwick Triangle, the Victoria Street and muti market, and other historically significant sites.
Irregular assets Durban is the art deco capital of Africa, with numerous sensational buildings. The Durban Art Deco Society offers walks, tours, or you can self-drive. If you’re in the mood to shop, there are ample markets to choose from. I Heart Market is held on the first Saturday of the month (every Saturday in December) on the lawn alongside Moses Mabhida and offers only Proudly South African goods and eats. Then there’s the Antique Fair at Windermere Centre on the first Saturday of every second month, and
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the Stables Lifestyle Market close to the rugby stadium in Jaco Jackson Drive, offering antiques and home decor. It’s open Wednesday and Friday evenings and Sundays from 10am until 5pm. The Wonder Market, in Chris Saunders Park, Umhlanga, is open every Sunday, and Shongweni Farmers Market, Outer West, every Saturday.
Lesser-known assets Denis Hurley Centre (DHC) is one of the city’s most astonishing success stories and beacons of hope in the heart of the city – situated between the imposing spires of the Emmanuel Cathedral and the minarets of the Juma Masjid Grey Street mosque, two of the most significant and revered spiritual institutions in the city. The DHC serves the needs of the poorest people of Durban through their clinic, feeding scheme, vocational training, educational and community support, and pastoral outreach. Volunteer to spend some time there, or visit them – Thembi Langa, their tour guide, will show you around, and get you involved in one of the city’s most hopeful places. The Phansi Museum in Glenwood is a fascinating little museum with a country-wide collection of traditional clothes, items and artwork. Curators are highly knowledgeable and friendly. The museum has a shop that sells local literature, jewellery and other traditional items. The African Art Centre has been showcasing and selling superb African art and crafts (now based in Station Drive) for over 50 years. Stainbank Nature Reserve is a 253ha protected area in the suburb of Yellowwood Park, Durban, with a network of trails totalling 15km, wildlife and over 200 birds. Kickstart Shows, a professional theatre company, stages four productions a year at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre on the UKZN campus: typically a festive season panto,
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a family-friendly production, a major musical, and a drama. Playhouse, the city’s mid-town theatre venue, is well worth a visit just for visuals. Explore the city with a sketch pad with the Urban Sketchers. Join a group of artists and sketchers – accomplished and hobbyists – as they paint, draw and sketch, monthly on Sunday afternoons around the city. Or join Beset Durban, which offers family-friendly walks through some of Durban’s forgotten spaces and best-kept secrets, every four to six weeks. Their mission is to “explore, educate, inform, occupy and share”.
Music
An inspired music support mechanism, Concerts SA is a joint South African and Norwegian live music development project housed within the Samro Foundation which works with musicians, promoters, venue owners, schools and audiences to nurture and develop live music throughout South Africa as far as the SADC countries. Catch fabulous, homegrown, crossover and multicultural live music, be it jazz, acoustic, contemporary, folk or world music, at venues in and around Durban.
The Chairman is a warm, stylish and schmaltzy weekend all-jazz venue (established and up and coming) with innovative cocktails, great eats, and a strict dress code, in Mahatma Gandhi Road, downtown. Jazzy Rainbow is Durban’s longest running jazz venue, found at 93 Smiso Nkwanyana Road. The KZN Philharmonic Orchestra is a magnificent full-time professional orchestra, with four formal symphony seasons a year – either in the Durban City Hall or the Playhouse Opera. Baroque 2000 hosts excellent, monthly baroque concerts in the beautiful St Mary’s Church at Marianhill Monastery, about 10min outside Durban. The Monastery, too, is historically magnificent.
Alternative assets Visit Station Drive, off Umgeni Road, and find eateries, small businesses, retail, craft beers and more and check out Florida Road in Morningside – it’s the vibey, mixeduse sector by day and night, with eateries, coffee shops and retail.
Art
KZNSA Gallery, which is over a century old, is one of the more contemporary art galleries. Others worth visiting are Tamasa Gallery (Overport), Elizabeth Gordon Gallery (Florida Road), Green Gallery (Mount Edgecombe), and Etchings Art Gallery (Umgeni Park).
Get active
For those keen to work up a sweat, there’s yoga on the beachfront – simply pay a drop-in fee and greet the sun. Or you can learn to surf with Xpression on the Beach (Addington beach). Price includes a coach, a surfboard and rash vest or wetsuit. You can hire a bike from Bike n Bean, or run or walk on the Durban beachfront.
Nature
Get in touch with nature at the Beachwood Mangroves Nature Reserve in Virginia, or visit Africa’s oldest botanical garden in Berea or the Mitchell and Jamieson parks in Morningside.
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hellain Dettmer turned her passion for tie-dyeing into a business and became the Tie Dye Lady, operating mainly from the Shongweni Farmers Market.
Tie-dye clothing is no longer reserved for hippies and has become a way of artistic expression for fashion-conscious people all over the world WORDS: TIVANIA MOODLEY
Q: How did your business start? A: I loved tie-dyeing for most of my life and started doing it for my family many years ago. In the last two years I decided to take my business to the Shongweni Farmers Market and it has taken off in leaps and bounds. My range has expanded, and I now tie-dye anything from babygrows to underpants, linen, tablecloths, wedding dresses and hoodies. I’ve also included a range of horse-riding shirts, numnahs and jodhpurs.
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Q: Why did you choose this area to do business? A: The Shongweni Farmers Market is well known and is a destination venue for everyone in South Africa. The new premises are conducive to any kind of weather which guarantees our sales and it’s close enough to travel to. Q: How did you find your premises? A: A friend recommended the market and I was fortunate to become a permanent stall holder. I also operate from my home in Ashburton, Pietermaritzburg on an appointment basis. Q: Why are they ideally suited to your business? A: The market is flourishing and
generates good traffic. It works really well for me as it’s always a hive of activity. Q: Who are your neighbours? A: My neighbours are two very talented men, one doing canvas prints, and the other doing custom-made furniture. Q: How many people do you do business with each day? A: I see about 20 clients per week at my home, and then on weekends at the market, I see about 100 people. On month-ends, traffic is a lot more. Q: Do you have any expansion plans? A: I hope to increase my wholesale side to retail shops. Q: Do you operate online as well? A: I have an active Facebook page (@ArtOn18) and am currently building a website. Q: What’s your most popular item? A: In winter it’s the hoodies, and in summer the girls love crop tops, dresses and bell-bottom pants. Our personalised baby items sell very well too, and the men’s boxers are a hit for Christmas.
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The Pearls Mall has created a festive shopping experience for everyone. Join us for our first Christmas Night Market on 17th December between 4pm – 9pm. Christmas shopping will be so much fun with live music throughout the mall from 22nd – 24th December. Be dazzled by Lungelo Gumede’s life-like statues of Nelson Mandela in his pop-up wax museum from 5th December. Enjoy festive cheer and a sizzling summer holiday at Pearls Mall. www.thepearls.co.za | facebook.com/thepearlsmall 800 parking spaces available | 45mins FREE parking | Ample secure parking close to the beach Festive Season trading (15th Dec until 2nd Jan) 09h00 – 20h00 Mon – Sat: 09h00 – 18h00 Sun & Public Holidays: 09h00 – 16h00
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Healthy retirement Moving into the retirement phase of life, each person has different concerns, budgets and priorities, particularly as to the medical or care aspect. That factor alone is likely to steer your course. WORDS: ANNE SCHAUFFER
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etirement developments fall largely in two different models – sectional title, or life rights. Sectional title is a familiar concept to South Africans, life rights being the preferred international model, but one which is increasingly claiming a footprint in South Africa.
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In a nutshell, sectional title gives the owner full ownership, can be sold at a market-related price, and will be willed to family. For life rights, the developer retains ownership of the unit (therefore has a vested interest in the upkeep of the development), while you and your spouse have the right to live there for your lifetime. On you or your spouse’s death, there will be a legal agreement in place, which entitles the developer to sell “your” unit, and pay out your heirs with something in the region of the original “purchase” price – this calculation varies, depending on the development or developer, but it’s a highly transparent process to which everybody is privy from the outset.
Medical or care facilities
Retirees always need to have one eye on future costs, but that’s tricky when you have no idea how long that future might be. At some stage, however, medical or care costs are very likely to be required, and there are a number of different care models. Full on-site, in-house care – sometimes two or three
tiers of such – is one model, and many retirees would choose this as first prize. Arthur Case, CEO, Evergreen, which operates on the life-rights model, says, “We develop care centres that cater to primary health care, home-based care, recuperative care, frail and palliative care, and soon we’ll include memory care facilities. In our large villages like Muizenberg and Broadacres, we have 2,000m² full-service care centres and in the smaller villages, clinics. All future villages will be large with care centres providing all levels of care, in other words, ‘continuous care’.” Regarding costs, there’s no cross subsidisation. Residents pay on a feefor-service basis when they need care. “Other than basic primary care services like blood pressure testing, care is not included in the basic levy, but provided on a fee-for-service basis. The care centres admit seniors from inside and outside the village. For 24/7 frail care, Evergreen residents pay approximately 20% less than non-residents,” says Case. Suzette du Preez, MD, TruCare Age Well Solutions Inc, Gauteng – known as MyCare in KwaZulu-Natal – believes, “Frail care, as we know it in South Africa, is an outdated model. The future of care is specialist facilities for conditions like Alzheimer’s, palliative care, and so on. On average,
only between 2% to 3% of residents living on an estate would require a higher level of care. That doesn’t warrant the high building cost and infrastructure of a frail care centre.” Du Preez is an exponent of the “ageing in place” philosophy which is increasingly the more popular global model. It makes more sense financially, and because it’s perceived as advantageous for today’s retiree. Receiving care in your own home is not only the choice of most, but it reduces the stress of the other partner who has to visit another section (often a distance from their own home) of the complex… and the isolation felt when home alone. By reducing the size of frail-care units or number of beds, and the numbers of permanent staff and facilities, a service is provided only when needed – a clinic provides all the basic services like blood pressure monitoring.
Outsourced medical?
Another smart option is not only outsourced care at a retirement village, but a freestanding medical centre with ageing-related illness specialists. Residents have this literally on their doorstep and can consult as they would any medical specialists and pay them independently of their accommodation.
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