1. NEW RELEASE DEVELOPMENT
2. NEW RELEASE PROPERTY
3. GEORGE MUNICIPALITY
4. OCC AROUND THE CORNER
5. REACH THE HEART OF THE MATTER WITH HEARTLINES
6. DUBAI INVESTS IN SOUTH AFRICA
7. CPIX CONTINUES TO COOL
8. SOL PLANS A BIG PARTY
NEW RELEASE DEVELOPMENT
PIRATES CREEK - WILDERNESS
Situated in the heart of the Garden Route on the Touws River in Wilderness. The development has two restuarants, swimming pool and other recreational facilities.
Come and relax on the river and enjoy fishing, canoeing, hiking, bird watching, or a breath taking sundowner BBQ.
Log cabins for holiday or permanent residence from R1 400 000 on the river edge. Stands to build your home from R595 000.
From R595 000
ID3896
NEW RELEASE PROPERTY
GLENBARRIE - CLOSE TO GOLF COURSES
The ideal lock-up and go up market, quality finished home. Gourmet kitchen with granite finishes, patio, 3 bedrooms, study, lounge, dining room, 2 bathrooms and 2 garages.
R1 799 000
ID1834
KING GEORGE PARK - TRANQUIL AREA
3 Bedroom home with family room, lounge, kitchen, 2 garages and a sore room.
R1 026 000
ID3892
WILDERNESS - NATURE ON SEA
Secure estate with nature setting on the beach front. Lovely Thatch home with 3 bedrooms en-suite, 2 garages, 3 living areas, staff area with bathroom, patio and bar area.
R2 160 000
ID3906
WILDERNESS - BARGAIN BUY
Neat and solid 3 bedroom home, close to the main beach with kitchen, 2 living areas, garage and patio.
R1 399 000
ID3907
GEORGE MUNICIPALITY - SECOND MOST PRODUCTIVE
George Municipality - which has over 1000 employees - has been rated as one of the most productive in the B (medium size) category in the country by the magazine Service: Leadership in Local Government. George was placed second just after Saldanha Bay on the West Coast.
In the A-municipality category, Johannesburg was placed tops, followed by Tshwane (Pretoria) and Cape Town.
Municipal Manager, Cecil Africa said that this was a remarkable feat given that there are currently 200 posts that need to be filled. With George having the highest growth rate in the country, the municipality was therefore somewhat under-capacitated.
OCC AROUND THE CORNER
With the Outeniqua Wheelchair Challenge (OCC) only a few weeks away, the organisers are currently making the final arrangements for the big day on Saturday, l4 February.
"The athletes - and organisers - are all very excited," explains program director, Esther Watson. "We also feel very privileged as we have three entrants from the Transkei this year - a first for the OCC."
For awareness
"The OCC is a huge awareness event through which the committee would like to show George and the rest of South Africa that people with disabilities are simply differently able.”
Celebrities on the board
Well South –African Actor, Neels van Jaarsveld will be part of the action on Saturday, 14 February when he pushes a disabled child in a wheelchair.
Known for his role as Dr. Gideon Bason in the series Binnelanders and for a series of unique Klipdrift television advertisements (did anyone say Eish?), Neels is one of many local celebrities supporting this day.
REACH THE HEART OF THE MATTER WITH HEARTLINES
Heartlines will be presenting a breakfast at the George Museum on Wednesday, 11 February, two weeks prior to its second TV series called ‘Hopeville".
This series is most creative and will be screened weekly starting 24 February on SABC 2 at 19:30. It will focus on actually living out positive values in our daily lives and communities.
Heartlines is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that gained national attention through a TV series promoting values in 2006. This was screened on all SABC TV channels and the campaign branded "8 Weeks, 8 Values One National Conversation".
The objective of Heartlines is to help people live out their good values and to translate them into significant positive social action.
DUBAI INVESTS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Despite gloomy forecasts for the global property industry, Better Homes — the largest real estate agency in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — has bolstered confidence in South Africa by expanding their business to include a branch in Cape Town.
Double the size of its nearest competitor in the UAE, with an international workforce of 700, Better Homes was founded in Dubai over 20 years ago. Their expansion into other markets over the last three years has seen the company opening offices in Asia, Europe and now South Africa.
"Our connection with South Africa is extremely close — we have a large number of employees working in Dubai originally from South Africa," said Billy Rautenbach, Director of Operations for the Dubai office. "We are very excited about our new partnership with Brendon Miller and his team and we welcome them into the Better Homes family."
Following the trend set by the Dubai World consortium’s investments in Cape Town, and with a database of over a million investor clients, the entry of this estate agency to the market certainly bodes well for South Africa’s competitiveness on the global property stage.
"We look forward to offering our South African clients in Dubai an opportunity to invest in their home country," said Billy Rautenbach. "As well as our Middle Eastern clients who have shown a great interest in South Africa and the Western Cape in particular."
CPIX CONTINUES TO COOL
The increase in South Africa's consumer price index excluding mortgage rate changes (CPIX) for metro and other areas, which is used by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) for its inflation target, was up 10.3 percent year-on-year in December from 12.1 percent y/y in November, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Wednesday.
"It's a fairly encouraging number. To a large extent the market is looking to the January number that will be released in February. If anything it's going to solidify rate cut expectations.
"Looking ahead to next week, although inflation is coming down quite nicely, we're still looking at a rate cut of 50 basis points rather than 100 basis points cause of ongoing vulnerability on the currency."
Fanie Joubert, Efficient Group
"That is much better than expected. It shows that the cooling trend in inflation is continuing and that is definitely a positive sign.
"This provides more scope for more interest rate decreases in the near future."
Carmen Altenkirch, Nedbank
"Consumer inflation ended the year firmly on a downward trajectory. 2009 is expected to see inflation slowing sharply. The January figures should show a significant slowdown in inflation to about 7.4 percent."
SOL KERZENER PLANS A BIG PARTY
Three months after throwing “the party of the decade” a $20-million star-studded fiesta for the opening of his 1539-room hotel in Dubai South Africa’s Sun King, Sol Kerzner, is planning another.
The 73-year-old hotel and casino tycoon this week said the grand opening of the Tower Marina, a R1-billion hotel resort development at the marina on Cape Town’s Waterfront, was scheduled for April.
Completion of the development — which includes the Tower Marina’s 92 suites, linked by bridges to two man made islands that will house 40 villas and a 1200m² spa — is four months ahead of schedule.
Kerzner said his team had initially planned to complete construction and open for business in July.
“But, during my last visit over Christmas, we went through every detail at great length and agreed we could open ahead of schedule.
“I’m keen to open the resort while the weather is still perfect,” he said.
Kerzner, who serves as both chairman and chief executive of Kerzner International, said it was very unusual for a development of this size to be completed ahead of schedule.
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