Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: The oldest cake in South Africa: One of the first things Karoo Girl asked me when she heard I was going to visit her home town of Graaff-Reinet, was if I was going to go and see the oldest cake in the country. Now I know most of Graaff-Reinet's attractions, but the cake was a first for me. She directed me to aunty Ira's Antique Shop next to the Graaff-Reinet Tourism info office and that is where we headed on the Saturday … [Read more...] about The oldest cake in South Africa – Featured Blog
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PE in the news: Koeksisters’ Christmas cake fun
Koeksisters’ Christmas cake fun: The recipe they follow is the very one Nadene’s late mother, Doreen Hickson, who lived in Port Elizabeth all the years, used whenever she was baking for Nadene and her two brothers. “The recipe is all messed up and brown, but we still work from it ... Source: "Port Elizabeth" - BingNews. How the ruling party was sent packing in 2016: the ANC announced that President Jacob Zuma would launch the party’s manifesto before an expected crowd of 100 000 in the 46 … [Read more...] about PE in the news: Koeksisters’ Christmas cake fun
Cakes Councillor, I Suggest You Sell Them
It is with delicious anticipation that I wait for the next salvo from opposition parties and well meaning 'financial gurus' to throw yet more gripes against the staging of Afcon in Port Elizabeth at our Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. What astounds me is that these well intentioned letter writers still haven't learned one simple lesson - a politically sanctioned event will go ahead no matter how much the opposition to it. The escape clause in the Afcon agreement is just words on a piece of paper … [Read more...] about Cakes Councillor, I Suggest You Sell Them
