Weekly News - 10 November 2008

CONTENTS
1. NEW FEATURED PROPERTIES
2. INTEREST RATE CUTS
3. 2010 WORLD CUP BID
4. TARGETING TOP SOCCER TEAMS
5. HEROLDS BAY FESTIVAL - 2008
6. WHEN GOD SPEAKS
7. ENGINEERING AWARDS CITY IS AMONGST THE BEST
8. SA VIEWERS GIVEN 3 YEARS DIGITAL TV MIGRATION
9. FANCOURT OFFERS BEST OF EVERYTHING

NEW FEATURED PROPERTIES

HERSHAM

SPACIOUS

A comfortable low maintenance clinker home, 500m from the Indian Ocean with a beautiful garden patio and balcony. 2 Living areas, dining room, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, open plan kitchen with thermofan oven and hallogen hob, double garages with office built above and Lapa to die for!

R2 000 000
ID3759

MOSSEL BAY

PANSY COVE - DIAZ BEACH

Bachelor apartment with under-floor heating, swimming and sitauted in a security complex.

R949 000
ID3776

MOSSEL BAY

LUXURY APARTMENT BLOCK - MOSSEL BAY BEACH FRONT

Live the life you'd love to live at Pansy Cove, on the beachfront at Mossel Bay's Dias Beach. Whether it's your year-round home or your holiday home-away-from-home, there is so much for you to enjoy. Watch the whales from your own private patio, sip sundowners as the sun sets over the Indian Ocean, fish, sail, swim or simply relax and savour the best that life has to offer.

- Luxurious 1,2,3 & 4 bedroom apartments and penthouses
- Spectacular sea and mountain views
- Granite and steel finishes
- State-of-the-art security in secure complex
- Private undercover parking
- Hotel, restaurants and shops nearby
- Private swimming pool

From R910 000
ID3774

ROOI RIVER RIFF

OPEN AND SPACIOUS

Open spacious sunny living areas, open plan kitchen, 3 large bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, covered BBQ/ patio area and 2 garages.

R1 300 000
ID3757

KINGSWOOD

GOLF ESTATE LUXURY

Unique security golf estate development. Your own exclusive luxury home in this prime Golf Estate. Situated in the most secretive position with magical views. 4 Bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3 living areas, BBQ room, patio, swimming pool, dressing room, kitchen, laundry and 2 garages.

R2 950 000
ID3770
GEORGE - SOUTH

CLOSE TO SCHOOLS

3 Bedroom, low maintenance home close to schools and town. Garage, lounge, dining room and kitchen.

R875 000
ID3749

INTEREST RATE CUTS

Events have marched on to a point where the first of a series of SARB rate cuts are coming into view, timing as always the prerogative of the SARB.
But do paint in a very high probability for December 2008 and a near certainty for February 2009 for the first cut.
In contrast, the consensus keeps looking well into 2009 for that first rate cut. I have maintained for some time that events may be moving much too fast for that. Expect rate cutting sooner rather than later.

2010 WORLD CUP BID
GEORGE MAYOR GIVES HIS FULL SUPPORT

George is the best suited town to host a 2010 World Cup soccer team at a base camp. It has the necessary in¬frastructure, airport, hotels and accom¬modation. Very lit¬tle will be required to get Outeniqua Stadium upgraded to get it in line with Fifa requirements. So said Mayor of George, Flip de Swardt during a re¬cent interview.

New parking areas are being created in readiness for the in¬ternational Sevens Rugby Tournament in December. Pavi¬lions will be en¬larged at Outeniqua Sports Stadium to accommodate more seats (eventually 20 000 seats by 2010).

"The town would also be geared to facilitate exhibition performance matches. Rosemore Sport Stadium could be upgraded for that purpose. Soccer has a bigger following locally than was originally thought." De Sward said¬

TARGETING TOP SOCCER TEAMS

"It pays to be optimistic and we may as well set our visor high by targeting the top 20 teams participating in the Soccer 2010 World Cup."

This is the opinion of Paul Hoffman who travelled to Germany in 2006 to attend the Soccer World Cup and who still feels optimistic that Eden has a good chance to be a host region.

It will only become clear at the end of 2009, which teams had made it to the finals and would be participating in the World Cup. Only then will it be announced where the teams will be staying - above sea level or below, and what their preferences are.

Public viewing facilities / fan parks must be able to seat tens of thousands of people and have a big screen and are costly venues to create - it could cost up to R10-million.

HEROLDS BAY FESTIVAL 17 – 20 DECEMBER '08
OUBAAI GOLF RESORT

Miss Bikini, flag sprinting, surfing, beach soccer, beach volleyball, touch rugby,.... these are but a few of the activities that can be expected to supply plenty of action during the 2008 Oubaai Heralds Bay festival.

If you haven't started putting your team together for the coming festival, maybe now is the time. Practice after work, during lunch time, tea time, weekends, anytime is fun time if you want to participate in these events. Being 16 years and older, has got you halfway there already.

Beach Soccer teams consists of 7 players per team of which 5 Is needed per game with 2 subs. Games last 7 minutes per side with a 3 mutate rest between the first and second halves.

Beach Volleyball will see 4 players per team battling it out for the honors and here fitness will definitely be an advantage as you will play until there is a winner by at least 2 points.

Touch Rugby traditionally played on Saturday, will work on the same basis as the soccer, with 7 players per team. 5 Playing a side with 2 subs ready to help out.

If you do not have a team and are a competitive individual, enter the MTN Service Centre Flag Sprinting championship where speed and agility will see you grabbing the flag before any of the other individuals. This exciting competition, based on the same exercise life savers need to master, is a popular crowd event with daily preliminary rounds leading up to the final on Saturday 20 December.

Also a huge crowd pleaser, especially under the male attendants, is the Miss Bikini competition where entrants between the ages of 16 and 25 stand a change of winning great prizes! If you have the body and self confidence to show it off, make sure to enter this very popular competition. Daily preliminary rounds will also build up to the finals and crowning of the t time Airline Miss Bikini winner on Saturday 20 December.

With all these hot bodies on the beach there will be plenty of eye candy for young and old. Entries are limited, so make sure you send us your info well in advance. For more information please contact Terra Firma Events on 044 874 2015 or e-mail helena@terrafirmaevents.com

WHEN GOD SPEAKS, RIGHT HEARTED HUMANS RESPOND

In September, The George Herald re¬ported on the Miracle Christian Centre which was opened in Thembalethu by the Department of Social Services earlier this year.

At the forefront of this centre is Pastor Richard Duruwe and a very supportive team who are striving to change society with their vision of transformation. This vision includes things such as empowering the unemployed, reaching out to orphans and HIV victims, educating youth and assisting the aged and poor.

The centre has enjoyed tremendous sup¬port from local businesses and well-doers thus far. Top Gear, Hartman Butcheries, Nissan and Lewis Stores have shown their support in various ways and Pastor Duruwe expressed his sincere appreciation when he visited the George Herald this week. "These generous donations are assisting us in fulfilling our vision," Past Duruwe said.

ENGINEERING AWARDS CITY IS AMONGST THE BEST

George municipality's engi¬neering directorate is now firm¬ly rated as being amongst the top in the country.

This comes in the wake of being awarded the first prize in the environmental category by the Consulting Engineers of South Africa for running the best engineers project, for the second year running.

In total, George has won 6 awards: one for having the best drinking water, best sewerage works, and last week was named by Municipal IQ, an Intelligence Company, and the sec¬ond most productive town in the Western Cape.

SA VIEWERS GIVEN 3 YEARS DIGITAL TV MIGRATION

As of Saturday, South African households are able to tune into high quality digital broadcast television with the brand new digital terrestrial television (DTT).

What is it?
DTT, also called digital terrestrial transmission, refers to modes of tele¬vision broadcasting which do not in¬volve satellite trans¬mission. Besides more pro¬gramming and tele¬vision channel choices, digital broadcasting will allow government to provide viewers with government services over tele-vision, special ser¬vices for the visu¬ally or hearing im¬paired and pro¬gramming in a mul¬tiplicity of lan¬guages.

Learn more
For more informa¬tion about South Africa's digital mi¬gration, feel to visit the SABC's website on www.sabc.co.za

FANCOURT OFFERS BEST OF EVERYTHING

You don't have to be a hotel guest at Fancourt to experience its five-star service. Voted the Golf Resort of the Year by the International Asso¬ciation of Golf Tour Operators in 2004, the estate has a wide range of quality facilities that are open to the public.

Find out more
For more information on any of the above facilities, please contact Fancourt on 044 -804 0000 or visit www.fancourt.com.