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Sixty security staff have been appointed to guard tourists in Table Mountain National Park, two weeks after a Russian tourist’s murder.

Tourism minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane met the 60 white-gloved guards on Thursday at Kloof Nek, in the shadow of Table Mountain’s northern face.

Their numbers will be boosted to 86 in October, and cameras and drones will join the anti-crime effort from December.

James Vos, Cape Town’s mayoral committee member for economic opportunities, said he was delighted by the deployment of the guards.

“Table Mountain is a leading tourist attraction on the African continent with local and global significance,” he said. “We need to make sure that we protect and promote our tourism sector. It is the backbone of our economy and job creation, with almost 300,000 Capetonians employed in this sector.”

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Women’s Day in South Africa is a different date to the rest of the world.  Women’s Day in South Africa marks the anniversary of the great women’s march of 1956, where women marched to the Union Buildings to protest against the carrying of pass books.

On 9 August 1956, about 20 000 women marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against legislation aimed at tightening the apartheid government’s control over the movement of black women in urban areas.

The earliest Women’s Day observance, called “National Woman’s Day,”was held on February 28, 1909, in New York, organised by the Socialist Party of America at the suggestion of activist Theresa Malkiel.

In August 1910, an International Socialist Women’s Conference was organised in Copenhagen, Denmark. Inspired in part by the American socialists, German Socialist Luise Zietz proposed the establishment of an annual Women’s Day although no date was specified at that conference. Delegates (100 women from 17 countries) agreed with the idea as a strategy to promote equal rights including suffrage for women.

The following year on March 19, 1911, IWD was marked for the first time, by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.  In the Austro-Hungarian Empire alone, there were 300 demonstrations. In Vienna, women paraded on the Ringstrasse and carried banners honouring the martyrs of the Paris Commune. Women demanded that they be given the right to vote and to hold public office. They also protested against employment sex discrimination.

The Americans continued to celebrate National Women’s Day on the last Sunday in February.

Chas Everitt Cape Town South pays tribute to the fact that the real estate industry remains one where so many women have not only been welcome but have excelled and in so many company’s have taken the lead.

This latest Inside Guide has the answers for cold winters!  With a stormy winter on the horizon, we’ve rounded up the cosiest restaurants in Cape Town, where fireplaces provide warmth and atmosphere.

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There’s always work to be done in the garden to keep green fingers busy – even in winter. Our June gardening guide is packed with tips, from keeping your garden healthy to which vegetables to grow in winter.

Spotlight on: Indoor projects for kids
Keep your children busy these winter holidays with fun indoor-garden projects:

• We love this eggshell succulent garden, and so will your kids. They’re easy to make and an effective way to teach the basics of gardening.
• Dress up ordinary flowerpots with these creative gumboot gardens. They are also the best way to upcycle your old boots!
• Transform an ordinary herb pot into a work of art with just two creative tools: blackboard paint and chalk. Simply paint the rim or base of your terracotta pots (whichever style you prefer) with blackboard paint, then label with the herb name in chalk when it’s dry.

ON YOUR TO-DO LIST FOR JUNE  

Plant and sow

• Plant cool-season bedding plants such as alyssum, calendula, dianthus, lobelia, nemesia, pansies, sweet peas and violas.
• Liliums, azaleas and camellias can be planted in dappled shade.
• Add Brussels sprouts, kale, radish, leeks, onions, turnips and members of the cabbage family (broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and spinach) to your vegetable garden.

Feed

• Feed lemon trees with a 2:3:2 general fertiliser.
• Remedy yellowing leaves with a micro-element mixture such as Trelmix.
• Feed bulbs with bulb food once every two weeks and water well.
• Winter- and spring-flowering seedlings require an organic fertiliser such as Nitrosol or Atlantic All-purpose fertiliser every two weeks with a weekly watering.
• Check the edges of sweet peas. If they’re brown and papery, feed with a 3:1:5 fertiliser.
• Feed indoor plants with Nitrosol weekly.

   Prune & Trim

• Remove side shoots on sweet peas to encourage strong upward growth.
• Trim autumn-flowering shrubs like pride of India, ribbon bush, wild dagga and barleria.
• Prune fruit trees such as peach, plum and apricot.
• Prune roses after transplanting.

 Pests

• Keep an eye out for leaf miner on cinerarias and spray with Bioneem.
• Use Bioneem on conifers to ward off aphids, or dissolve insecticide granules in water to pour at the base of the tree.
• Use organic snail bait for snails on clivias, daffodils and young seedlings.

  Thanks to Stodels for this article

The Best May Events in Cape Town 2019 as curated by The Inside Guide

The Mother of all cities is hotting up with a festive lineup of cool events! Here’s their pick of where to go and what to do in May 2019.

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