Cheese Food & Wine 2023 The most snackable weekend of the year heads to Rundle Park/Kadlitpina with a melting pot of cheesemakers, great food, drinks and dancing this November. CheeseFest is South Australia’s longest running and widely loved annual cheese-focussed culinary festival. Established in 2005 by festival director Kris Lloyd AM, CheeseFest was created to showcase South Australia’s cheese producers and has now matured to include a diverse range of local artisan food producers, restaurants, wineries, distilleries and breweries and musicians. CheeseFest is now the complete all-in-one alfresco foodie festival with a focus on ‘gouda’ curds and whey! Cheese Lovers…
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It may take time to determine what started an apartment fire in Johannesburg early Thursday morning and why more than 70 people died. But witness accounts, imagery of the blaze and a visit to the site in May indicate that the five-story building had a litany of major safety issues that made it vulnerable to a deadly fire.Preliminary evidence suggests the fire started on the ground floor, a local official said, and trapped many residents behind locked gates as it spread. While precise origin of the fire is unknown, some of the earliest flames were spotted in a courtyard behind…
Mutinous soldiers in Gabon proclaimed their republican guard chief as the country’s leader Wednesday after placing the just-reelected President Ali Bongo Ondimba under house arrest, alleging betrayal and massive embezzlement during his long-time rule over the oil-rich Central African nation. The coup leaders said in an announcement on Gabon’s state TV that Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema had been “unanimously” designated president of a transitional committee to lead the country.Oligui is a cousin of Bongo, who earlier Wednesday had been declared the winner of the country’s latest presidential election following 55 years of rule by him and his late father. Read…
Issued on: 31/08/2023 – 16:18Modified: 31/08/2023 – 18:12 01:47 South African firefighters and police officers try to put out a deadly fire in Johannesburg on August 31, 2023. © Michele Spatari, AFP More than 70 people were killed overnight when a fire raged through a run-down, five-storey Johannesburg apartment block, one of the worst such disasters in a city where poverty, household fires and homelessness are widespread. Read more on related topics:
Gabon will respect all its commitments at home and abroad, the junta pledged on Thursday, a day after the military overthrow of President Ali Bongo. The country’s main opposition alliance meanwhile urged coup leaders on Thursday to acknowledge it won the August 26 presidential election. Issued on: 31/08/2023 – 16:35Modified: 31/08/2023 – 16:39 2 min General Brice Oligui Nguema will “phase in transitional institutions”, Colonel Ulrich Manfoumbi Manfoumbi, spokesman for Gabon’s newly formed Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI) said on state TV on Thursday, a day after rebel officers overthrew President Ali Bongo.In a statement on…
Niger’s military junta said it revoked the diplomatic immunity of France’s ambassador and ordered police to expel him from the country, according to a statement. The French foreign ministry has said the junta, which seized power last month, has “no authority” to expel the French ambassador. Issued on: 31/08/2023 – 14:45 2 min The mutinous soldiers who ousted Niger’s president more than one month ago gave French Ambassador Sylvain Itte 48 hours to leave the country last week. The deadline expired on August 28 without France recalling Itte. The French government says it does not recognise the coup rulers as the…
Home » Spanish Vocabulary » Slang » Spanish Text Slang: 124 GR8 Texts 2 Send to Ur BFF hla amig@s Can’t understand what your Spanish friends are saying online? Learning to read and write in Spanish isn’t as easy as it used to be. In this world of tweets and text messages, you’ll need to learn Spanish text slang to follow what’s going on. Contents Download: This blog post is available as a convenient and portable PDF that you can take anywhere. Click here to get a copy. (Download) Common Spanish Text Slang Here’s a table of some of the…
Experience Lewis Carroll’s timeless classic live on stage at the Her Majesty’s Theatre this January. The internationally acclaimed theatrical masterpiece Alice in Wonderland is coming to Adelaide these summer school holidays. Don’t be late for these very important dates, or you will miss your chance to tumble down the rabbit hole and join Alice on her captivating and magical adventures! This glorious production features breathtaking costuming and puppetry, using ingenious stagecraft and limitless imagination, and will thrill children and adults alike. Meet the White Rabbit, the eccentric Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and of course the boisterous Queen of Hearts…
A fire consumed a crowded five-story building in downtown Johannesburg early on Thursday, tearing through an informal settlement of homeless people in what was being described as one of the deadliest blazes in South African history.Owned by the city, the building once provided emergency housing for women but had become home to a large squatter camp, a sign of the scarcity of affordable housing in South Africa’s most populous city.These are photographs from the scene.Residents with some of their belongings bundled up near the scene of the fire.Firefighters battling to extinguish the blaze. The authorities were working to determine the…
General Brice Oligui Nguema, who was named Gabon’s new leader in the hours following a military takeover on Wednesday, served the central African country’s long-time former president Omar Bongo before turning on his son, ousted leader Ali Bongo. Issued on: 31/08/2023 – 11:25Modified: 31/08/2023 – 11:49 3 min General Nguema has been chief of the republican guard, the country’s most powerful army unit, since 2019, with close sources describing him as charismatic and respected. The first statement announcing the coup was read out in the courtyard of the presidential palace, a fortress protected by his military unit.Said to be discreet and secretive,…