Media Release. Mossel Bay Tourism. 2 September 2010. [caption id="attachment_3214" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Members of the Dias Festival Joint Organising Committee (JOC) - from left: Dias Museum Complex manager Mbulelo Mrubata, Festival coordinator Juanita Pienaar, and Dias Museum Management Committee chairman, Harold Miller."][/caption] Juanita Pienaar to Coordinate Dias Fest Next year’s Dias Festival, which will be held in Mossel Bay from the 3rd to the 6th of February, will be coordinated by Juanita Pienaar. Ms. Pienaar recently also coordinated the Summer Festival at Santos Beach, and the Kraak-i-Mossel Festival at The Point. “Mossel ...read more

Media Release: 30 August 2010. Mossel Bay Tourism [caption id="attachment_3203" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="IMAGE: (From left) ISAF Trainer Rich Percy, schools sail training consultant Hannah Percy, ISAF Training and Development Manager Dan Jaspers, and South African Sailing’s National Training Manager, Mossel Bay-based Rob Holden."][/caption] IMAGE: (From left) ISAF Trainer Rich Percy, schools sail training consultant Hannah Percy, ISAF Training and Development Manager Dan Jaspers, and South African Sailing’s National Training Manager, Mossel Bay-based Rob Holden. ISAF Visits Mossel Bay to Train South African Sail Trainers Two of the International Sailing ...read more

Sussex Cricket Club is getting  readyfor their cricket season and is promising to be a team that you have  to be on the lookout for this year. They`re in great spirit and top form and thats`s why they`re doing a Season Opening party @Club LeTrax to give them that headed jump start. Proceeds of this event will go to Sussex Cricket Club and they call upon all their members and supporters to support their function. We looking forward 2 c u there. Where: Club LeTrax Cost: R20.00 per person Cell: +2782 400 3176 E-mail: club.letrax@gmail.com read more

Media Release. 26 August 2010. Mossel Bay Tourism. Mossel Bay Tourism Upset Over Closure of the Outeniqua Choo Tjoe Mossel Bay Tourism has expressed deep disappointment over Transnet’s decision to close the Outeniqua Choo Tjoe. The closure was announced in a statement released by Mboniso Sigonyela (Transnet’s External Communications Manager for Group Corporate and Public Affairs) on the 24th of August: “In 2007, Transnet Limited identified the Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe steam train service operating between George and Mossel Bay as one of its non-core assets. Following extensive studies and stakeholder consultation, the company decided to follow an open tender process to find a new ...read more

Mediavrystelling: 25 Augustus 2010. Mosselbaai Toerisme 2011 Diasfees: Organiseerders uitgenooi om deel te neem Volgende jaar se Diasfees sal van 3 tot 6 Februarie plaasvind – en organiseerders wat sportbyeenkomste, kulturele aanbiedings of vermaaklikheid wil aanbied word genooi om vir die program te registreer. “Die Dias-museum en Mosselbaai Toerisme sal die 2011 Diasfees koordineer maar ons sal nie die individuele items organiseer nie,” sê Dias-museum kompleksbestuurder Mbulelo Mrubata. “Ons hoop dat sportklubs en kultuurorganisasies, asook profesionele geleentheidsorganiseerders en individuele besighede soos restaurante en hotelle, met hulle eie idees vorendag sal kom en dan hulle items aan die fees sal verbind. “Die Suid-Afrikaanse Vloot het reeds ...read more

Media Release. 18 August 2010. Mossel Bay Tourism IMAGE: Bartolomeu Dias Museum Complex manager Mbulelo Mrubata at the pond below Dias’ Spring. Dias Museum’s 500-year-old Solution to Water Crisis The Dias Museum Complex in Mossel Bay boasts one of only a few Braille Trails in South Africa - so when the drought that’s currently gripping the Southern Cape began to threaten the plants in the Museum’s Ethno-botanic Garden (of which the Trail forms an integral part), manager Mbulelo Mrubata decided to look to the past ...read more

Media Release. 18 August 2010. Mossel Bay Tourism Record Price for Coffee at Mossel Bay Auction A recent auction in Mossel Bay in aid of a children’s cancer appeal appears to have fetched a record price for coffee. When master coffee roaster Aharon Baruch - known simply as Baruch to his friends - made a hasty, last-minute decision to donate ten, 200-gram presentation boxes of his own best blend to the Mark ‘E’ Winter Ball’s CANSA for KIDS auction, he expected they’d raise about a thousand rand ...read more

Media Release. 18 August 2010. Mossel Bay Tourism IMAGE: First meeting of the 2011 Dias Festival's Joint Organising Committee: (Back from left) Mossel Bay’s Port Manager Willem Roux; Friends of the Dias Museum chairman, Pierre le Roux; Mossel Bay Protea Hotel manager Karen Bus; the Dias Museum’s Brigitte von Schütz; Mossel Bay Tourism’s Louma Jansen; and PetroSA communications officer Nafeesah Abrahams. (Front) Harold Miller, chairman, Dias Museum Complex Management Committee; museum manager Mbulelo Mrubata, and Mossel Bay Tourism COO Marcia Holm. 2011 Dias Festival: Event Organisers Invited ...read more

IMAGE: The Hobie Tigers South African Championship was sailed in Mossel Bay last weekend. Picture: Jan Hoevers Mossel Bay to Bid for International Dart 18 Catamarans Sailing Championship Mossel Bay will submit its bid for the 2014 Dart 18 Catamaran world championship when members of its sailing club attend this year’s event in Weymouth, in England, later this month. “I’ve sailed around the world, and as far as I’m concerned, Mossel Bay has some of the best sailing grounds of any I’ve ever seen - ...read more

Media Release. Mossel Bay Tourism. 5 August 2010 Hobie Tiger Nationals Begin in Mossel Bay Mossel Bay - which has been described as one of the best sailing grounds in the world - will host the Hobie Tiger National Championships this weekend. “The Hobie Tiger is a very fast, high performance, two person catamaran, and the racing’s going to be hard and very competitive - and lovely to watch,” said South African Sailing’s National Training Manager, Mossel Bay-based Rob Holden. He said that the event would begin with a fun race at 13h00 today, Friday  the 6th of August, and that racing will start ...read more