From charcuterie and Cabernet to velskoens, beer boeps and a disco, there really is something for everyone in Bathurst this weekend at the Bathurst Country Affair from the afternoon of Friday August 11 to Sunday August 13. From upmarket, hand-picked exhibitors, to craft beer and wine tastings and hilarious competitions, live shows and music, the festival of food and fun spans the length and breadth of the village, as well as ages and tastes.
If you’re easily overwhelmed by places and choices, the good news is the programme’s made for you.
“We’ve designed the programme so that if you wanted to, you could fit in just about everything,” says co-organiser, Tanya Schenk.
Schenk dreamed up the first Bathurst...
South African junior international Lily Heny of Port Alfred might not have ended up on the podium at the 2024 World Surf League (WSL) World Junior Championships that finished earlier this week at Urbiztondo Beach in the Philippines, but says the experience was well worth the effort.
Forty-eight of the world’s best u21 junior surfers from 14 countries converged on the coastal province of La Union, Philippines, to compete for the top prize in junior girls and boys international surfing.
Seventeen-year-old Heny ended top of the WSL Africa Junior rankings despite losing out to SA surfing champion Anastasia Venter at the Nelson Mandela Bay Pro Junior (JQS) 1,000 finals at Gqeberha’s Pollok Beach in September and secured...