Why you should visit Elgin – the home to South Africa’s elegant cool-climate wines

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• Why you should visit Elgin – the home to South Africa’s elegant cool-climate wines: Elgin is the country’s coldest wine-growing region and a mere one-hour drive from Cape Town. From our home base at Wildekrans Country House, a few friends and I visited three of the farms that are …: “Cape Town” – BingNews
  
• Sri Lanka score 144/6 on day 2 against New Zealand before rain plays spoilsport: Cape Town [South Africa], Aug 23 (ANI): Former South Africa all-rounder Lance Klusener, who will be the assistant batting coach for India tour, said that bringing back the passion in players to play …: “Cape Town” – BingNews
  
• Proteas netball team receive R500k bonus from Sport Ministry: (Photo by Nathan Stirk/Getty Images) South Africa will host the 2023 edition of the Netball World with Cape Town selected as the city that will stage the event. The South African delegation attended …: “Cape Town” – BingNews
  
• Transform Your Room With a Feature Window Treatment: Cape Town-based design studio, OKHA has relaunched a classic – the Volt dining chair. The elegant dining chair has a… ARCHISCENE is a daily online journal, focusing on groundbreaking projects, as …: “Cape Town” – BingNews
  

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Quick Cape Town Fact: Cape Town has a ‘second New Year’ – Every year at the 2nd of January as many as 13,000 minstrels take to the streets garbed in bright colours, either carrying colourful umbrellas or playing an array of musical instruments. The minstrels are self organised into klopse (“clubs” in Kaaps Afrikaans, but more accurately translated as troupes in English). The Kaapse Klopse (or simply ‘Klopse’), as it is called, is also referred to as the Tweede Nuwe Jaar (meaning ‘second New Year’).