Mossel Bay gears up for Dias Festival 2012
Mossel Bay’s annual Dias Festival promises to be bigger in 2012 than ever before.
“The coordination of the Festival has been taken under the wing of the Municipality of Mossel Bay and a committee chaired by local businessman Bertu Nel, who has deep experience of organising events,” said Mossel Bay Tourism’s Marcia Holm.
“The local community has come on board with huge enthusiasm, and, in fact, we’ve already had a few ‘practice runs’ - like the Downhill Dash in September, which was aimed at skate boarders and soap-box car racers, and was seen as a practice run for the ‘actual’ event, which will take place during the Dias Festival,” she said.
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A Freedom Banquet fund raiser will be held at the International Convention Centre in Durban in support of Red Light’s Anti Human Trafficking Awareness Programme on 3 June 2011 at 6 pm. Red Light is a Faith Based Organisation in Durban KZN. The purpose of the Banquet is to raise funds to deliver anti human trafficking awareness to schools and other venues. In accordance with the Bester Statistics 2006, Human Trafficking as an industry is worth R339 billion. 
Awesome SA, in conjunction with the Mutual Benefit Society, arranged an evening in February 2010 to support the placement of Zakhe Agricultural College students.
