Festivals & EVENTS In January    

National Art Exhibition
Where: Strydom Gallery, George, Western Cape

KIRSTENBOSCH SUMMER SUNSET CONCERTS
Where: Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town

Nedbank Summer Concerts
Where: Josephine's Mill, Cape Town

FESTIVALS & EVENTS IN FEBRUARY    

KIRSTENBOSCH SUMMER SUNSET CONCERTS
Where: Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town

Community Chest Carnival
Where: Maynardville, Wynberg

Winelands Jazz Festival
Where: Franschhoek

J&B Met
Where: Kenilworth Race Course

Opening of parliament
Where: Cape Town CBD

FESTIVALS & EVENTS IN MARCH    

KIRSTENBOSCH SUMMER SUNSET CONCERTS
Where: Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town

The Life Cycle Expo
Where: Good Hope Centre, Cape Town

Cape Argus/Pick 'n Pay Cycle Tour
Where: Cape Town

Cape Town Jazz Festival
Where: Cape Town, Western Cape
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Cape Town International Jazz takes the stage every year on the last weekend in March. It's a two-day festival featuring some 40 international and African acts performing on five stages to an audience of 15 000. The jazz is accompanied by photographic and other exhibitions.

Lambert's Bay Kreeffees
Where: Lambert's Bay, West Coast, Western Cape
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Kreef is Afrikaans for crayfish, and a fees can be both festival and feast. At the Kreeffees, held every March in the West Coast town of Lambert's Bay, you'll feast on fresh crayfish and get festive at rock concerts by some of South Africa's favourite musicians. There's also bungee jumping, aerial displays, a half-marathon, beer tents and more.

FESTIVALS & EVENTS IN APRIL    

Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon
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Clanwilliam Agricutural Show
Where: Clanwilliam
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Klein Karoo Nationale Kunstefees
Where: Oudtshoorn, Western Cape
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The Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees in Oudtshoorn features well-known and young up-and-coming artists in dance and theatre. Started as an Afrikaans alternative to the mainly English National Arts Festival, KKNK has 200 different shows on three different stages.

South African National Belly Dance Festival
Where: Cape Town, Western Cape
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This annual festival, a highlight of the year for the South African belly dance community, is presented by Marocca Belly Dance Studios and offers workshops, dance performances and sales of belly dance accessories. Held at the end of April, it aims to bring together performers and teachers from across the country and to promote a better image of belly dancing in South Africa.

FESTIVALS & EVENTS IN MAY    

Five Roses Cederberg Festival
Where: Clanwilliam
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Gourmet Festival
Where: CTICC & other venues
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Prince Albert Olive, Food & Wine Festival
Where: Prince Albert, Western Cape
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The two-day Prince Albert Food and Wine Festival, held in the Swartberg region of the Western Cape in May, offers a whole lot more than just the region's famous olives and wine. There's an art exhibition, beer tents, live music, witblits tastings, crafts for kids, historic tours, a cycle race, an olive pip-spitting competition, culinary demonstrations, a midnight ghost walk, stalls, cabaret, a dance and more.

Pink Loerie Mardi Gras
Where: Knysna, Western Cape
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The Knysna loerie is a green bird, but the Pink Loerie Mardi Gras is different. A gay festival held in the beautiful coastal town of Knysna in May, the Mardi Gras offers four days of non-stop entertainment for anyone who enjoys a party.

Riebeek Kasteel Olive Festival
Where: Riebeek Kasteel, Western Cape
WEBSITE
The Riebeek Kasteel Olive Festival takes place in the Swartland area of the Western Cape in May. A feast of wine and the best olives in SA, the festival also has an art competition, live entertainment, stalls and lots of food.

FESTIVALS & EVENTS IN JUNE    

Swartland Food & Wine Festival
Where: Malmesbury

(durbanville) WINTER WINE FESTIVAL
Kaapse Wyn/Cape Wine & Cuisine will present their 3rd Winter Wine Festival together with Highstreet Shopping Village on the 23rd & 24th June 2006.
WEBSITE link to follow shortly

FESTIVALS & EVENTS IN JULY    

Knysna Oyster Festival
Where: Knysna, Western Cape
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The coastal town of Knysna is famous for its oysters, and increasingly famous for the July festival that celebrates them. In addition to oyster braais, oyster tasting, oyster-eating competitions and other molluscular activities, there's live entertainment and lots of sporting events - cycling, running, canoeing, downhill racing and sailing.

Berg River Canoe Marathon
Where: Paarl to Velddrif

Bastille Festival
Where: Franschhoek
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Calitzdorp Port Festival
Where: Calitzdorp, Western Cape
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The Klein Karoo town of Calitzdorp is the port-wine capital of South Africa. Its annual port festival, held over a weekend in July, was inaugurated by the SA Port Producers Association in 1992 and showcases the top 15 South African port makers. There's a blind port tasting judged by SA's top wine critics, a potjiekos competition and ostrich farm tours, as well as the annual South African boules championships.

Gansbaai Winter Fynbos Show
Where: Gansbaai

FESTIVALS & EVENTS IN AUGUST    

Hantam Vleisfees
Where: Calvinia, Northern Cape
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Calvinia in the Northern Cape is sheep country, and this festival celebrates meat. There's meat braaied, stewed, curried, in pita, on sosaties, in potjies - you can even pick up a done-to-perfection sheep's head for a mere R30. First held in 1989, the three-day Hantam Vleisfees has a music concert, street party, vintage car rally and, a highlight for many, the Miss Vleisfees competition - a glittering affair with dinner and dancing.

P.P.C Riebeek Marathon
Where: Riebeek Valley

FESTIVALS & EVENTS IN SEPTEMBER    

Arts Alive
When: September 2006
Where: Johannesburg, Gauteng
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Arts Alive, held every September since 1992, features a heady mix of dance, visual art, poetry and music at venues in the Joburg inner city. The main concert, held at the Johannesburg Stadium, headlines international superstars such as 50 Cent and Busta Rhymes. Over 600 artists perform during the four-day festival, with most shows at various venues in Newtown. The ever-popular Jazz on the Lake is held on the final day.

Hermanus Whale Festival
Where: Hermanus, Western Cape
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Every year, southern right whales travel thousands of miles to the Cape south coast to mate and calve in the bays. Join the villagers of Hermanus for an entertainment-packed festival, in the town with the best land-based whale watching in the world.

Knysna Gastronomica
Where: Knysna, Western Cape
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A new addition to South Africa's festival circuit, the Knysna Gastronomica is a celebration of good food, wine and culture in the coastal town of Knysna.

Prince Albert Agricultural Show
Where: Prince Albert, Western Cape
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Join the people of Prince Albert as they celebrate their agricultural heritage in September. The show offers homecrafts, art and flowers, horses on show, motorbike obstacle route, sheep and angora goat competitions, local products, delicious food, bar facilities and entertainment for young and old. The farm breakfast and steak braai are a must.

Laingsburg Ultra Marathon
Where: Laingsburg

International Kite Festival
Where: Zandvlei, Muizenberg

Harvest Festival of the Sea
Where: Saldanha

FESTIVALS & EVENTS IN OCTOBER    

Cape Times FNB Big Walk
Where: Hartleyvale Stadium, Cape Town

Foot of Africa
Where: Napier to Bredasdorp

Stellenbosch Spring Festival
Where: Stellenbosch

FESTIVALS & EVENTS IN NOVEMBER    

Stellenbosch Winelands Marathon
Where: Stellenbosch

FESTIVALS & EVENTS IN DECEMBER    

Spier Summer Festival
Where: Stellenbosch, Western Cape
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In the lush winelands of the Western Cape, at the amphitheatre on the Spier Estate, the annual Spier Summer Festival offers four months of music, opera, dance, stand-up comedy and theatre. First held in 1995, the festival runs from December to March.

Community Chest Twilight Fun Run
Where: Cape Town CBD

Rothmans Week Sailing Regatta

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