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FlySafair

FlySafair opens ticket sales

The newest entrant to the low cost air travel market in South Africa, FlySafair, has launched ticket sales between Johannesburg and Cape Town, with its maiden flight scheduled for Thursday, 17 October. FlySafair is making it simple for customers to...
scan display

Scan Display for COP11

Scan Display was contracted by Conference Systems Namibia to build 2 600 m² of meeting rooms, 1 500 m² of office space and 600 m² of exhibition space for the 11th Conference of Parties to the Convention to Combat Desertification (COP11 UNCCD). The...

Locusts and carbon taxmen cometh

The gathering of people generates a great deal of environmental hazards.  Similar to a bunch of locusts: people travel to a venue, people arrive, people consume, people travel from a venue In most instances these short bursts of human ‘invaders’...

10 golden rules for event planners

Year-end function planning is as important, if not more so, as the many other company events throughout the year. Proper planning ensures high expectations going forward for the organisation’s number one asset – the employees. The MICE Academy...
Protea Hotel Saldanha Bay

Protea Hotel Saldanha Bay reopens

Protea Hotel Saldanha Bay has reopened following a winter refurbishment that is breathing new life into the public areas and bedrooms. All the public areas and a large block of rooms has already opened, with more rooms to be released in the next...
Gearhouse

Gearhouse supplies Sensation Innerspace

The Gearhouse Group of Companies recently provided comprehensive technical support, in the form of rigging, audio, lighting, trussing, structures and power, for the successful execution of the electronic dance production:  Sensation Innerspace,...
Marataba Suite Deck View

MORE for the Waterberg

Marataba Safari Lodge’s addition to the award-winning MORE portfolio launches a major new attraction in experiential game viewing and trail walking in South Africa. Located in the centre of Marakele Game Reserve in Limpopo’s historic Waterberg...