The Final Countdown to get your Jazz on

There are just 2 days left until the beginning of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival.

The festival is known as Africa's Grandest Gathering and will kick off on Friday 03 April and continue until Saturday 04 April. Since it's inception in 2000, the festival has drawn crowds of over 30 000 people each year and this year will most likely see a swell in those numbers as people flock to see over 40 African and International performers.

Some of the more popular artists to be performing will be Freshly Ground, Goldfish, Kyle Eastwood, Incognito and the Stylistics.

For more information about the festival visit the Cape Town International Jazz Festival website or go down to your local Computicket or Shoprite Checkers outlet and buy your tickets now for the event of the year!

Convention Centre is putting their Green foot forward

For the past few months the Cape Town International Convention Centre has been making an effort to reduce its carbon footprint on our fair planet.

The CTICC created themselves a 'green team' which was asked to implement some environmentally sustainable initiatives. Their initiatives seem to be working because according to Rashid Toefy, CTICC chief executive, the centre has seen a drop in their energy consumption from almost 400 thousand Rand in December 2007 to 250 thousand Rand in December 2008.

That's a fantastic result and hopefully they can keep it up!