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Stephen’s Scribbles – Burn Baby Burn.
I’ve no doubt many community members have been to Afrika Burn....

Burn Baby Burn I've no doubt many community members have been to Afrika Burn. It's a one-week festival held every Autumn in the desert near Sutherland

A brief history of G-Land, Java, Indonesia.

Surfing Today with Rip Curl - A Brief History Of Grajagan – St Francis Today St Francis Today

Ben Trovato in excellent form.

A Walk On The Wild Side With Ben Trovato, and some White South Africans White South Africans, much like white sharks, are the most misunderstood animals on the planet. A Walk On The Wild Side with Ben Trovato

R20 Million Worth Of Co***ne Washes Up At Supertubes, Jeffrey's Bay – St Francis Today St Francis Today

Ramaphosa tests positive, Verstappen wins F1, Anne Rice dies, and a lamb raffle. https://stfrancistoday.com/

A sneaky lineup shot, from the https://stfrancistoday.com/ newsletter.

Cooking With Conrad Gallagher – This week we chat menus, meat, and beef marrow truffle sauce with the St Francis-based Michelin Star Chef.
https://stfrancistoday.com/cooking-with-conrad-gallagher-this-week-we-chat-menus-meat-and-beef-marrow-truffle-sauce/

Cooking With Conrad Gallagher – This week we chat menus, meat, and beef marrow truffle sauce with the St Francis-based Michelin Star Chef.

https://stfrancistoday.com/cooking-with-conrad-gallagher-this-week-we-chat-menus-meat-and-beef-marrow-truffle-sauce/

Craft Beer and Travel and surf art by Dodds Blom. All pretty cool.

The West Wind Issue 10 ART feature DODDS BLOM It was a chilly July morning mid-lockdown the day I first encountered the serenity of a Dodds Blom work. Trade Wind had opened for take-

Bilou Beach Villas are open!

Bilou Beach Villas, Mentawais, Are Open! Bilou Beach is open for business Over in the Mentawais, Bilou Beach Villa is trading as usual. They are filling up for 2022, Taking bookings for 2023. There are

Surf spots on our west coast are getting fu**ed up by Australian mining companies. Mike Schlebach and the crew at Protect The West Coast are on it.

West Coast Surf Spot Under Seige - Issuu On 19 April 2021, a group of activists from the environmental group Protect The West Coast (PTWC) conducted a peaceful protest to challenge the mining of beaches at the Tormin mine near Brand se Baai on the Cape West Coast.

Gangbusters Surfing Magazine Issue 2 Out Now
https://issuu.com/gangbustersmag/docs/gangbusters2
South Africa – Gangbusters Surf Magazine issue 2 is out now and is getting excellent traction and feedback online. With a wide array of inclusive content, the local surfer community and a fair number of international readers have all expressed their enjoyment at the style and breadth of the coverage inside the magazine.
In this issue, we have a photo feature by the legendary Nic Bothma, who currently works as a photographer for European Press-photo Agency. Nic has been shooting surfing, mainly in Cape Town, for the last 30 years, and was first to document the guys surfing Dungeons in 1999. He also shot the session at Madiba’s Left on Robben Island.
We look at two surf industry members doing their own thing and ‘on the move.’. Mat Marais from MAT Surfboards tells us about the satisfaction of mowing foam, and Stephen Price describes bringing a new apparel label, NOAH, into the industry. Both hard-working kind of guys, their respective businesses are set to take off.
We also have a squizz at two surfers who are ‘new talent’. Ntokozo ‘Surprise’ Maphumo from Durban and Brian Furcy from Mauritius are two such surfers who are focused on competitive surfing and determined to make their mark on the South African surf scene as well as the global stage. We document their thoughts and ideas at this relatively early stage of their careers.
There is an intimate reveal of facing a 10-foot wave at The Bay Of Plenty in 1978. First published in Shaun Tomson’s book, The Surfer’s Code, the 1977 World Champion talks us through the terror of a 10-footer smashing on the Bay sandbank, the thrill of making it out alive, and the discordance of surviving the wave of a lifetime with no spectators, no cameras, and no contest announcers. It is gripping stuff.
There is also all the latest news, gossip, rumours, and a few letters to the editor, covered in 72 digital surf action pages. Special mention to Dave Lindemann for the sick cover.

Letters to the editor – [email protected]

Issue 2 of Gangbusters online surf mag, going great guns. Click on the link, have a look, tell us what you think.

Gangbusters Surfing Magazine Issue 2 Gangbusters is a digital surfing magazine, focussing on South African surfers and South African waves.

Talented Cape Town photographer Nic Bothma is featured in issue 2 of Gangbusters Magazine.
https://issuu.com/gangbustersmag/docs/gangbusters2

Surfing Photo Feature with Nic Bothma Nic has been working as a photojournalist and surf photographer for the past 30 years, 18 of those as the Africa chief photographer for global news agency European