Blouberg, Blaauwberg, Cape Town – South Africa

The manager of a Table View Spar, who did not wish to be named, said the suspension of the Lotto had affected business to a certain extent.
“We used to have queues of people here on a Saturday night to buy the Lotto but now we have none,” she said.
Pick ‘n Pay in Plumstead said the [...]

Cape Town – Top South African long distance swimmer and Olympic Games hopeful Tyron Venter, 21, has beaten his closest rival by 14 minutes to win the 7.5km swim from Robben Island to Big Bay, Bloubergstrand.Braving a water temperature of 14 degrees, 3m ocean swells and scores of jellyfish, Venter made the crossing in a [...]

After two days of rain, the Weather Office says another frontal system heading for Cape Town is expected by Monday.
On Friday city municipal workers and disaster management members cleared away the aftermath of rock falls and mudslides left behind from the cold front that hit the Western Cape on Friday.
The city’s Disaster and Risk Management [...]

While this might not have too much to do with a blog related to Blouberg, it does have something to do with the company behind the blog. Circular Hosting – a web hosting company operating from Table View has launched a new product to their range of services, TagsPage – TagsPage allows you to add [...]

An “extreme swim” race between Robben Island and Bloubergstrand with 82 entrants was postponed on Friday due to heavy ocean swells.
The Cadiz Vista Nova Freedom Swim was rescheduled to Saturday at 10.15am, if conditions improved.
A cold front over the Cape Peninsula had brought heavy rain and big swells and difficult swimming conditions, said Robert Thompson, [...]

Netcare was also expanding its core hospital business in coastal markets, areas in which the group has not traditionally had as strong a presence as its rivals, said Nkosi, from the company’s newest facility in Blaauwberg.
The 100-bed hospital was officially opened this week, hard on the heels of Netcare’s new 100-bed Alberlito hospital in Ballito, [...]

Veteran Cape Town long distance swimmer Theodore Yach is gearing up for his 50th swim from Robben Island across icy Table Bay to Bloubergstrand, which could place him in the Guinness Book of Records.Yach, chairman of the Cape Town Central City Improvement District, said that since his first swim in November 1981 his goal had [...]

Killarney motor racing circuit near Table View, outside Cape Town, will host the second round of the Mr Price Supermoto National championship on the 30th of April.This will be the first time a Supermoto event comes to Killarney, and a new, challenging, 1.3 km combined tar and dirt track awaits the record field of nearly [...]

It is alleged he previously moved around in the Durbanville area, but now operates in Table View and travels in a white Opel Corsa Bakkie and a blue BMW.
Perhaps the following article would be worth the read considering the above quote.
Police have released a photograph of a man in connection with the murder [...]

Since Henry Charteris Hooper became the first man to complete the swim from Robben Island to the old Cape Town harbour in 1909, less than 300 people have made the crossing. However, on 27 April, Freedom Day, about 100 swimmers are expected to make the crossing from the former penal colony to Bloubergstrand.
They’ll be taking [...]

The Russian owner of a Cape Town strip club and a Bulgarian club employee have appeared in the Cape Town magistrate’s court in connection with allegations of conspiracy to kidnap, possession of illegal firearms and drugs, and other offences.Yuri Ulianitski, 33 – also known as “Yuri the Russian” – of Blouberg Strand, and Ilian Fishkin, [...]

Police arrested two men at the V&A Waterfront on Friday in a major breakthrough into organised crime in the Western Cape.
A 33-year-old man from Blaauwberg Strand and a 39-year-old man from Tableview are facing charges of conspiracy to commit statutory offences.
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The two are said to have links to Russia and Bulgaria. More charges could [...]