Disney’s The Lion King is making its premiere at the AsiaWorld-Expo Arena for the first time ever in Hong Kong. This one-of-a-kind spectacular features an international cast from all over the world, including South Africa and Zimbabwe.  

Kevin Fraser Live in Hong Kong 

South African comedian Kevin Fraser is returning to Hong Kong on his Leave the World Behind Asia tour on 4 October 2019. Tickets and more information will be posted on his website and Facebook soon. 

COBA Foods & Lifestyle Hong Kong’s mission is to provide clients with quality products, free of harmful ingredients or effects. They also provide products which meet very high consumer protection standards and this brought them to the Lotus Grill, an almost smoke-free BBQ which can be used on a balcony, yacht, indoors, on the beach or at a picnic. The Lotus Grill extremely convenient and easy to clean. SAAHK members qualify for a 10% discount on the Lotus Grill and / or accessories purchased online.

Recipe of the Month - Curry Pea Salad

Owner of of Coba Foods & Lifestyle, Alison Wright, shares a quick and easy salad recipe with us this month. This simple salad can be whipped up in minutes and is a delicious side dish for a braai.

400 g Tinned peas

3- 4 T Low fat mayonnaise or Miracle Whip

Mild curry powder to taste

Salt and pepper to taste

Fresh coriander (optional garnish)

Preheat the tinned peas (do not boil). Drain the water and allow to cool. Mix all the ingredients together and you will have a delicious salad in minutes.

Note: A good curry taste is required. Use mild curry powder as hot curry powder will make it very hot.

From Cape to Cairo: SA teens fly in self-made airplane

An airplane built by South African teenagers has successfully landed in Egypt three weeks after it set off from Cape Town.

20 South African students are over the moon after an aircraft they assembled successfully landed in Cairo, Egypt. The customised four-seater Sling plane touched down in Egypt three weeks after it left Cape Town where the students built it.

Sparked by her passion to make a difference, teen pilot, author and motivational speaker Megan Werner founded U-Dream Global to inspire her peers to follow their dreams. U-Dream Global’s Cape to Cairo Programme is an ambitious aviation outreach initiative that fosters visionary thinking, inspiring young people to pursue their dreams while promoting and supporting innovation, technology and entrepreneurship as necessary key drivers for Africa’s development and transformation. The programme creates safe real-world experiences, specifically designed to discover young people’s strengths and accelerate their growth. Through effective training, U Dream Global equipped the youth with success tools and methods, forming a solid foundation which enables them to create a powerful future.

In 2018, U-Dream Global selected twenty inexperienced teenagers from various backgrounds across South Africa and provided them with hands-on experience in engineering and building an aircraft. Under the guidance and supervision from The Airplane Factory, U-Dream mentors and five team leaders from Denel Aviation, the teenagers built the Sling-4 aircraft in a highly controlled environment in just three weeks in June 2018.

Following final inspections and flight certifications, Megan and five other teen co-pilots obtained their pilot’s licences and then plotted and planned to fly the light aircraft from Cape Town to Cairo, visiting several African countries along the way.

“The plan was to impact the continent and uplift, empower and transform the lives of thousands of youth throughout Africa and the world by dreaming and achieving the impossible together, and to succeed beyond expectations.”

The team left Cape Town three weeks ago and landed in Namibia, Malawi, Ethiopia, Zanzibar, Tanzania and Uganda before the final touch down in Cairo during the 12,000km trip. This is a great achievement, and they are all proud to represent South Africa.

(Adapted from the original article by Brent Lindque, source: goodthingsguy.com)