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Puppy love – get even closer this February

To avoid a whiff of dog breath when your ‘best friend’ cuddles up, take your pet to the vet for a dental check-up. Stinky breath doesn’t only make it unpleasant to get close, it is a sign that your pet may have dental disease, a serious condition affecting dogs and cats. Dental disease is the […]

Musical ATKV-Oesfees is a Harvest Finale with ‘Gees’

Theuns Jordaan, Robbie Wessels, Loukmaan Adams and Karen Zoid are some of the headliners taking centre stage at South Africa’s most authentic harvest festival, the ATKV-Oesfees, to be held on Saturday, 22 March, 2014 at the Solms-Delta wine estate in the Franschhoek Valley. The seventh annual Oesfees, in association with RSG, kykNET, MyEdit and Wesgro, […]

Get in-between to freshen up

National Fresh Breath Week – 3 to 10 February 2014 For fresh breath confidence during February, the month of love, take a look at your oral hygiene habits; according to dental experts 90% of bad breath originates in the mouth. Cleaning in-between teeth is essential for healthy gums and fresh breath yet about two-thirds of […]

I ♥ Hill’s Foodie Bin

During February’s month of love Hill’s will be showing how much they care by giving you a gorgeous high-quality ‘I ♥ Hill’s’ foodie bin absolutely free when you buy two selected bags of Hill’s Science Plan. Buy two small (2.5 or 3kg) bags of Hill’s Science Plan Canine Mini or two medium (3.5kg, 4kg or […]

Childbirth Education Makes a Difference

Pregnancy Education Week – 15 to 23 February 2014   There are an estimated 100 million pregnant women in the world at any time and a new study* from the USA Yale School of Medicine has found that many lack key information regarding reproductive health. For example about half the women surveyed did not know […]

Kellogg Dishes Up 5 Million Breakfasts for South African Children

Nearly one-fifth of South African children are not eating breakfast before going to school. To help address this need, Kellogg is launching a large-scale Breakfast for Better Days™ Initiative, which will provide five million servings of breakfast to children throughout 2014, with 25 000 school children receiving breakfast every school day. With one in eight […]

Adonis Musati Project Event – February 2014

The Adonis Musati Project is an NPO in Cape Town that offers holistic assistance to vulnerable and disenfranchised refugees and asylum seekers. Amongst the most marginalized groups of people in South Africa, many have survived massive human rights violations in their home countries and in transit (e.g. sexual violence, gang rape, muggings, physical attacks, witnessing […]

Neethlingshof Wine Garden Live Music Wednesdays

Neethlingshof Wine Garden Live Music Wednesdays run throughout the summer season from Wednesday 30 October. Popular acoustic guitarist, Francois Haasbroek, will entertain with his sounds of folk, rock – and more – every Wednesday evening from 5pm to 7pm until end January (except for 25 December and 1 January). This Stellenbosch wine estate is the […]

Former heavyweight Hector wins 2013 Hill’s Pet Slimmer of the Year

Hector van Schalkwyk, a once rather rotund Rottweiler from Centurion, Pretoria is South Africa’s 2013 Hill’s Pet Slimmer of the Year, having shed an incredible 25kgs on a veterinary-supervised weight management programme. Hector (four years old) was one of ten finalists in the annual competition; the public could vote for their favourites based on their […]

Earthbound raises a glass to quaffing with a conscience

While eating and living with a conscience is becoming more and more mainstream, what about conscious quaffing? With this in mind, a new local wine, Earthbound, has been launched. With a range of five varietals, four of which are certified organically grown, the new wines have more depth to them than just complexity of character; […]