Blouberg, Blaauwberg, Cape Town – South Africa

Celebrated SA athlete overcame rough seas, spirited male competition and a record field to take victory in the gruelling 7.5km Cadiz Vista Nova Freedom Swim from Robben Island to Blouberg on Sunday.
Du Toit, 24, who swam a winning time of 1hr55min5sec, has now won the women’s division of this extreme event in seven successive [...]

Construction is under way on Aquarius, a 14-storey residential and commercial building that will form part of the vision of an architectural portal to the Table View/Blouberg beachfront.The building at the junction of Blaauwberg Road and the shoreline road, Otto du Plessis Drive, rises from a 2 000 square metre site next to Horizon Bay, [...]

A Big Bay, Bloubergstrand resident has come under fire in his home early on Friday when he confronted armed intruders who had managed to break through electric fencing to gain access to a security complex.
The burglars broke into the house in Sandown Estate in a smash-and-grab style raid at about 3am.A neighbour said the robbers [...]

He allegedly robbed a woman of her cellphone, made her withdraw R1 000 from an ATM and forced oral sex on her in Table View on December 1.
Yep.. you read right. He now awaits bail.
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“The shark then began swimming away. Glen (Brown) said he continued to monitor the shark as it moved away until it was out of sight and lost beneath the sea surface,” said Lambinon.The honeymoon couple, Johan and Candice Fouche from Tableview in Cape Town who also happen to be professional photographers, took pictures of the [...]

Mother’s Day for some
A young organisation, not all the members of SAWISE will be on the receiving end of Mother’s Day, obviously. Some of them are new to motherhood.
Diane Wilcox, a UCT mathematician and prominent SAWISE member, will be celebrating her first Mother’s Day. Her son Aidan is seven months old. Diane was in the [...]

Last month the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) made a surprise bid to buy out CBS Property, the highly rated Cape-based property fund. The PIC, which basically represents the Government Employees Pension Fund, already holds 13% of CBS.If the deal is successful it will follow hard on the heels of a host of similar deals, most [...]

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 10 May, 2007 : – – Big Bay at Bloubergstrand will be the venue for South Africa’s most prestigious junior surfing series when the third stop on the five-event, R220 000 Billabong Junior Series is staged there next week. While the spectacular backdrop of Table Mountain and the fun beach break [...]

AN internet technology student from Blouberg has caused a stir in academic circles by achieving his Master’s degree cum laude only a year after receiving his BTech degree cum laude, which followed the year after completing the National Diploma in IT cum laude.
This hat trick could be the first of its kind at the Cape [...]

Medium-term planning for improving infrastructure between the Cape Town International Airport and the central business district did not include a proposed over-rail link running on the N2 at present, Western Cape Transport MEC Marius Fransman said.
But the MEC said government was not saying that this was “a no-no”.
Fransman, speaking at the Cape Town Press Club, [...]

SHOP owners and businesses at the Boy de Goede Circle in Blouberg Road are losing customers and patience. Nobody wants to listen to their problems, they say. Their business prospects are being destroyed and they are now at their wits’ end.
Commensurate with unemployment in the area, conditions at Boy de Goede has steadily grown worse. [...]

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 [...]