Girls Get Out Festivals Return
The first of four exclusively female beach- and surf festivals covering the South Africa’s summer coastline gets underway on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast on the weekend of the 8-9 December, when the Billabong ‘Girls Get Out There’ Summer Surf Series starts in the tourist mecca of Margate.
Billabong Ramps Up Out There
The rapidly growing female surfing community in South African will receive a significant boost through the expansion of the third annual Billabong "Girls Get Out There" Surf Series, that runs from December to February along the coastline of the country.
Bowls Nationals Kicks Off
The Women’s National Bowls Championships (commonly known as “The Nationals”), hosted this year by Port Natal Bowls, started in and around Durban on Saturday.
Clark Scoops Final Billabong Event
Heather Clark made a triumphant return to SA surfing when she scored a narrow but deserved win in the Open division of the fourth and final Billabong ‘Girls Get Out There’ Surf Series event which finished in wind affected one metre waves at Tableview in Cape Town on Sunday.
Heather Clark in Get Out There Mix
After seven years competing at the highest levels of professional surfing globally, Heather Clark will make her first appearance in a domestic surfing event when she takes to the waves in the fourth and final leg of the Billabong ‘Girls Get Out There’ Surf Series on the Tableview beachfront in Cape Town this weekend.
Girls Get Out There Finale Looms
The northern beaches of Cape Town will host the first national surfing event on the 2007 SA calendar when the fourth and final leg of the Billabong ‘Girls Get Out There’ Surf Series takes to the water on the weekend 3 & 4 February.
Best Beach Clean-Up Ever
The 2006/2007 Vodacom Beach Clean Up campaign has surpassed expectations by clearing a total of 43, 914 bags of marine litter from the South African coastline over the festive season. The project started on December 16 and ran until January 8 at twenty-three selected beaches, and provided work for over 240 previously unemployed individuals.
Yebo Clean Beaches
Beach volleyball players, touch rugby and soccer enthusiasts, surfers, lifesavers and surf ski paddlers are looking forward to enjoying pristine playgrounds at selected beaches around the country during the Vodacom Beach Clean Up which takes place from 16 December 2006 until 8 January 2007.
J-Bay to host Billabong Surf Festival
The third leg of the four-event Billabong ‘Girls Get Out There’ Surf Series will be staged in the surfing Mecca of Jeffreys Bay on Sunday where girls can experience the joys of the beach lifestyle with loads of activities taking place at the Main Beach.
Tarryn Scoops 3rd Billabong Title
Tarryn Chudleigh continued her phenomenal run of success in Margate when she beat a host of the country’s top female surfers to win the open division of the Billabong “Girls Get Out There’ Surf Series event in testing one to 1.5 metre (3-5 foot) onshore surf on Tuesday.
Champs Defend ‘Out There’ Titles
All the champions from the inaugural event in the 2006 Billabong ‘Girls Get Out There’ Surf Series will be back to defend their titles when the second all girls festival of surf is staged in the holiday paradise of Margate on Tuesday and Wednesday, 5 & 6 December.
Margate for December Surf Festival
The second leg of the four-event Billabong ‘Girls Get Out There’ Summer Surf Series, scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, 5 & 6 December, takes the country’s most lucrative all-girls surfing series to the holiday venue of Margate on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast.