Happy New Year! Enjoy #101FUN
on the Cape West Coast this January with our top events:
Sunday Buffet at Thali Thali Game Lodge
Date: Every Sunday
Time: 12:00 – 15:00
Location: Thali Thali Game Lodge
Contact: 082 372 8637
Description: Bring the family along for an amazing Sunday lunch at the beautiful Thali Thali Game Lodge.
Prices from: R175 per adult and R90 for kids aged 5 – 12
Menus change every week, so be sure to check their Facebook page for new menus.
Sundowners at !Khwa ttu
Date: 6 January
Location: !Khwa ttu
Contact: 022 492 2998 | [email protected]
Description:
Join us for spectacular views, stunning sunsets, good food & wine
Wind down at the boma at !Khwa ttu
First Friday of each month through the summer
Sundowner snack platter R65 per person
Cash Bar available Strictly no BYO
Transport to and from Darling available
An audience with Pieter Dirk Eish!
Date: 7 January
Time: 14:00
Location: Evita se Perron, Darling
Part of the Culture Route | Darling
Description: Pick-a-Box or Kies-n-Doos?
Meet those in our Rainbow Nation who will help us laugh at our fear of an unchartered future. Pieter‑Dirk Uys presents a celebration of free speech, an orgy of laughing at sacred cows, an embrace of being in a relatively healthy young democracy. Come and enjoy it all while it lasts. Every box holds a familiar secret! Every laugh is truly South African! A different show each time, depending on the choices of the audience, might force future thought‑police to buy tickets for each show, just in case a State Secret is let out of a box!
PDU Unpowdered
Date: 7 & 21 January at 19:00 and 28 January at 14:00
Location: Evita se Perron, Darling
Contact: Book your Evita se Perron show +27 (0)22 492 2851
Part of the Culture Route | Darling
Description: Now in his 71st year, Pieter‑Dirk Uys looks back on a life fully lived and hints at the challenges ahead of making the impossible even more extraordinary.
Tannie Evita Praat Kaktus
Date: 8, 15 & 22 January
Time: 14:00
Location: Evita se Perron, Darling
Contact: Book your Evita se Perron show +27 (0)22 492 2851
Part of the Culture Route | Darling
Description: Our history as it should have been
A revisionist look at the history of white South Africa, from the arrival in 1652 of the Cactus of Separate Development on the Drommedaris, through the Great Trek, Blood River, the 1948 Election and the arrival of the National Party and official apartheid, through the birth of democracy and the reality of today. Tannie Evita, in English, takes you on a journey, a hilarious roller‑coaster ride to freedom of expression.
!Khwa ttu Kiddies Holiday Program
Date: 8 December – 10 January
Time: 09:00 – 10:30
Location: !Khwa ttu
Contact: 022 492 2998 | [email protected]
Description: Join in on the fun for daily adventure kids’ activities this holiday. Boys & girls between 6 & 12 years old. MTB cycling, games, bow & arrow, nature & much more! Bring your own mountain bike. Price R95 per child including drinks & refreshments.
!Khwa ttu Kiddies Treasure Hunt
Date: 8 December – 10 January
Time: 11:30 – 13:00
Location: !Khwa ttu
Contact: 022 492 2998 | [email protected]
Description: Boys & girls under 6 years. Organised kids treasure hunt with adventure, songs, games & fun. R95 per child including a picnic basket.
Brass on Presents a Night at the Cinema
Date: 6 January
Time: 19:30
Location: Darling Brew 48 Caledon Street, Darling
Contact: [email protected]
Description: Brass on presents a Night at the Cinema. Popular film music performed by the German brass band “Brass On” at Darling Brew. Adults R90, Pensioners & Students R50. All proceeds from the ticket sales go to the education initiative DMA Darling Music for All. Tickets at the door or make a reservation at [email protected]
Langebaan to Saldanha Downwind dash 2017
Date: 7 January
Time: 09:00 – 23:00
Location: Galjoenduin, 7357 Langebaan, Western Cape, South Africa
Contact: www.langebaandash.co.za
Description: The 31st running of the prestigious Langebaan to Saldanha Downwind Dash will be held over the week-end of the 7th/8th January 2017.
This challenge, which is open to windsurfers, kite boarders, hobie, sup, catamarans and sailing dinghies, is without doubt the largest gathering of water sport enthusiasts in Africa.
The race attracts leading international competitors, but is also an opportunity for all levels of expertise, juniors, family groups and leisure sailors to test their skills.
Tickets: https://www.quicket.co.za/events/22085-langebaan-to-saldanha-downwind-dash/#/
Jesse Clegg – One Night Only at Evita se Perron
Date: 13 January
Time: 20:00
Location: Evita se Perron
Contact: 022 492 3930 | [email protected]
Description: Book your spot for Jesse Clegg – One Night Only life at Evita se Perron. R130 per person
Adapt or fly at Evita se Perron
Date: 14 January
Time: 14:00
Location: Evita se Perron, Darling
Contact: Book your Evita se Perron show +27 (0)22 492 2851
Part of the Culture Route | Darling
Description:
From DF Malan to JG Zuma It is 30 years since Pieter‑Dirk Uys started his total onslaught on politics with Adapt or Dye in 1981. Everything has changed so radically that some issues have become the same! Julius Malema’s recent outbursts have led to some citizens enquiring about emigration. An ANC spokesman added fuel to the fire by suggesting that ‘all cowards can go if they can’t take the future here’. Adapt or Fly! 1981 and today rollick hand‑in‑hand through the ups and downs of South African politics. It’s even funnier now, while it also still chills to the bone.
An Evening with Evita Bezuidenhout
Date: 14 January
Time: 19:00
Location: Evita se Perron, Darling
Contact: Book your Evita se Perron show +27 (0)22 492 2851
Part of the Culture Route | Darling
Description: A Command Performance with the most famous white woman in South Africa as she gives her State of the Nation address
Kitechix 2017
Date: 20 – 22 January
Time: 16:00 – 18:00
Location: Langebaan
Contact: Facebook
Description: Yearly kitesurf event for women who want to learn kitesurfing and those who want to improve their tricks and techniques by means of clinics, given by kitesurf professionals.
From January 20-22, 2016 in kitesurfers’ paradise Langebaan, South Africa.
And then there was Madiba
Date: 21 January
Time: 14:00
Location: Evita se Perron, Darling
Contact: Book your Evita se Perron show +27 (0)22 492 2851
Part of the Culture Route | Darling
Description: A reminder of the good news
Pieter‑Dirk Uys pays tribute to Nelson Mandela in a show filled with characters close to the former president B his prison warder, his wife Winnie, Desmond Tutu, PW Botha, FW de Klerk, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma B as well as stories of his friendship with Evita Bezuidenhout.
Groote Post Country Market
Date: 29 January
Time: 10:00 – 15:00
Location: Groote Post, Darling
Contact: 022 451 2202
Details: A great way to spend a Sunday with family and friends!
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