Friday 13 June 2025

Village News:

St Francis Bay Beyond the Garden Route – A Really Cool Visitor’s Video Featuring All The Locals.

The Hopeless Romantics Rock n Roll duo, St Francis parkrun, St Francis Market, Andrew Buckland, and Ejay  – St Francis Tourism letting us know what’s on this weekend.

You’ve Stopped Working – But Your Money Shouldn’t: The Human Side Of Money Presented By Client Care

A Lighthouse Storm Was Brewing – Lighthouse Photo Of The Day by Clive Wright

Friday 13th – What Could Go Wrong?A Brief and Unreliable History of Paraskevidekatriaphobia, from the editor

Naked, legless torso playing a broken organ in the forestJigsaw puzzle, 100 pieces, simple, but complex.

ST FRANCIS TIDES:

High 04:42 am (1.7m)

Low 10:56 am (0.35m)

High 05:09 pm (1.7m)

Low 11:14 pm (0.47m)

Regional:

Street sweep initiative makes waves in JBay –  Since Jan 2025, a dynamic street cleaning initiative led by KLM has been breathing fresh life into JBay’s streets and sidewalks.

SA & Africa News:

Major pain about to hit South African households Households across the country need to brace for significant electricity price hikes to hit from 1 July.

HARVEY

Tech:

‘They went too far’: Musk says he regrets some of his posts about TrumpTesla share price rises as former Doge head seems to retreat from feud and president welcomes apparent apology.

Kouga Local Municipality

Kouga engineer earns MBA, working on PhD proposal  – earning his Master of Business Administration from Durban University of Technology, at 39 years old.

International:

British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports sayA man survived the Air India crash that killed at least 260 people, a police chief has told an Indian news agency.

HARVEY

Environment:

North West officials evade responsibility for Madikwe elephant crisis, say MPsMore than 1,000 starving elephants may have to be culled.

Politics:

NPA secures major State Capture win: Gupta associates and Free State officials face retrialoverturned acquittals of Iqbal Sharma, Ronica Ragavan, and senior officials in the R24.9m Nulane fraud case.

Crime:

Big questions about fibre cables getting stolen and “smoked” in South Africafibre optic cables are being stolen to mix with illicit drugs in South Africa.

St Francis Bay Beyond the Garden Route – A Really Cool Visitor’s Video Featuring All The Locals

St Francis Bay Beyond the Garden Route See video below Becky & Brandon from Morris to See recently spent time exploring the greater St Francis...

Street sweep initiative makes waves in Jeffreys Bay

Jeffreys Bay – Jeffreys Bay is getting a glow-up, one sweep at a time. Since January 2025, a dynamic street cleaning initiative led by Kouga Local...

Kouga engineer earns MBA, working on PhD proposal 

Kouga – At 39 years old, Ndumiso Nongcaula, and employee at Kouga Local Municipality, has achieved a significant academic milestone – earning his...

Friday 13th – What Could Go Wrong?

A Brief and Unreliable History of Friday the 13th No one really knows when Friday the 13th got its reputation, but like most superstitions, it crept...

A Storm Was Brewing – Lighthouse Photo Of The Day by Clive Wright

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Surfing Today:

Surf fans cry foul after Filipe Toledo pulverised by Griffin Colapinto at Lexus Trestles Pro“I honestly think that WSL is making an effort to end the Brazilian storm.”

Food and Drink:

Three renowned CT eateries on 2025 World’s Best Restaurants listCape Town continues to assert itself as a global culinary capital with three of its most acclaimed restaurants earning coveted spots on the 2025 World’s Best Restaurants list.

Business:

South African cabinet members spent R202 million of taxpayer money on travel in one yearOpposition party ActionSA, citing official parliamentary replies, confirmed that R202,589,406 has been spent in less than a year.

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