While several of Hermanus’ major hotels reported strong occupancy during the weekend’s annual Whale Festival, accommodation-sector feedback paints a more mixed picture.
I have always been suspicious of those wonderful snippets of animal information that turn up from time to time.
The Hermanus Frail Care Centre (Sofca) recently held its first team-building day at the Hermanus Cricket Club.
Overstrand Municipality's firefighters put their fitness and skills to the test at this year's Toughest Firefighter Alive (TFA) competition in George on the weekend.
Three men appeared in the Hermanus Magistrate’s Court on Monday in connection with the murder of a 28-year-old Hawston man.
There was great excitement in August when Ariane Groenewalt, a Grade 6 pupil at Laerskool Kleinmond, earned a place in the Western Cape primary schools’ team to compete in the South African Equestrian Schools Association (SANESA) national championships in Johannesburg during the recent September long weekend.
There’s no stopping Overstrand modern pentathlon ace Daniel Grové’s appetite for gold.
It came as no surprise to me to read in the media that out of 375 libraries, Hermanus Library again won the trophy for Public Library of the Year in the Western Cape, as well as the Best Friends of a Public Library award and runner-up in the Digital Literary Champion category.
The Overstrand is firmly gripped in property-boom fever.
The independent Waldorf School Hermanus in Sandbaai - mainly for primary school pupils from Zwelihle and Mount Pleasant - celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2024.
For the past three years, 14 dedicated Botrivier residents and associates have been working to bring quality skills education to the village and give young people an alternative to the traditional academic high-school route.
Spekboom (Portulacaria afra) is one of South Africa’s most remarkable plants.
We tend to think of the southern Cape as a land of fynbos, with proteas, ericas, and restios carpeting the mountains.
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