Leadwood - a place of dreams

Located in Hoedspruit, Limpopo - Leadwood Big Game Estate is 984 hectares in size and

offers ownership in the form of 94 one hectare freehold title stands as well as a 32-bed lodge site.


An awesome place where you can get 100% home loans from Wizard midrand



Watch TopBilling Tomorrow at 8:30, to see Miss USA Nana Meriwethers visit to South Africa


Well fone folks for a magnificent new estate.

Why stay at a hotel when you can stay at Three Rivers Lodge

If you are looking for the best hotel in the Vaal Triangle look for one that will be able to host a wedding, a private birthday party, Bar mitzvah or But mitzvah, a business conference or all those other once-in-a-lifetime occasions you need to find a venue for; it is, of course, a good idea to find somewhere that is close enough to where you live yet far away to get that home-away-from-home vibe. A hotel in Vereeniging that will satisfy all these needs and plenty more – perhaps one of the best-kept secrets, is the Three Rivers Lodge and Villa Anna Sofia which is beautifully appointed and spread along the banks of the Vaal River, offering lush gardens and surroundings that will guarantee the best memories that will be frozen in time immemorial. 

You will be pardoned for thinking that you have gate-crashed the Magic Kingdom as the gardens that surround the lodge are breathtakingly, lushly manicured plus the army of well-trained staff will ensure that your every need is catered for.

Package deals for conferencing can be tailor-made to suit all business needs whether the occasion is big or small; our breakfast deals, lunch packages and cocktails functions are all tailored to perfection, plus a bit of free technology is added to ensure your affair runs smoothly from beginning to end.

For those seeking a touch of class and a moment of luxury, far from the madding crowd, look no further than the lavish Villa Anna Sophia for those special moments where stunning cuisine fit for a lord or lady will be served to perfection. Villa Anna Sophia offers the discerning traveler an opulent experience; nice to know is that all the rooms are equipped with air-conditioning units, private lounge, access to ensure privacy and a plethora of other bits and pieces to ensure you leave with a suitcase jammed with memories.

Should you be looking for the best hotel in Vereeniging to ensure your occasion is one that will be remembered long after the last drop of champagne has been sipped, then look no further than the sophisticated, well-placed Three Rivers Lodge, where indeed a river runs (almost) through it.

Bushveld competitions

If you register with one of the numerous South African group websites, you will no longer have to wait for your magazines to arrive every month or every fortnight so that you can enter into one of the numerous competitions on offer in South Africa every day. Group websites and online competitions enable you to enter into a South African competition every single day which is really nice for those competition enthusiasts.

Instead of logging onto Facebook every morning, people are visiting the group sites for deals and competitions every day.

Try to win that mouth-watering car that you have been drooling over for months and which could be yours with a mere click of your mouse, or perhaps you dream of travelling somewhere exotic but instead you are obligated to pay all your bills before you can even consider this. The best and the easiest way to win all these wonderful prizes is by registering, entering, and then hoping and dreaming for that special prize.

The more times you enter the more chances you have to win a prize in a South African competition. This is a numbers game, therefore it is wise to enter often for a better chance to win.

There are so many things that you can win, and they don’t only include holidays and cars. You will be able to win crates of wine, cosmetics, perfumes, chocolate hampers, jewellery, spa days and so much more by entering a South African competition every single day.

First motor cars

First Motor Cars

Many Patents Later the Motor Car Is Born

It literally took decades and many patents to create the car as it is today. The first man to have built a car that could move using its own power is Frenchman Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot.

·         Cugnot built two tractors that were powered by steam, and these tractors in turn were utilised by the army to haul heavy artillery.

·         Richard Trevithick who was a British inventor improved on the steam driven tractor and the steam-propelled engine by making it a little lighter, smaller and stronger.

·         In 1801 Trevithick made a more compact engine called the Puffing Devil, and was the first carriage that was not driven by horses.

·         These were the first designs towards building the modern-day motor car.

The next logical step was to produce a combustion engine, as the steam engine lost power along the way as the steam could not be maintained for long periods of time. The invention of the combustion engine soon turned this around. The result was that less fuel was utilised as combustion engines use fuel that is burnt within cylinders and vessels. Two French brothers created the combustion engine but chose to use this combustion engine to power a vessel and used moss spores, coal dust and resin to power the engine of the boat.

Francoise Isaac de Rivaz of Switzerland built combustion engines for a motor car but the engine was weak as he used O2 and hydrogen to power this engine, as was the case with other combustion engines designed by other inventors at the time.

The first electric carriage was developed by Scottish creator Robert Anderson in 1839, but the car had to be stopped regularly and re-energized which was hardly user-friendly.

The first contemporary car which was a petrol-driven, 4-stroke combustion engine and which converted fuel into motion, was the ancestor of the modern motor car that we drive in the world of today.

·         German engineer Karl Benz became the very first person to build a modern motor car in 1885.

The first car by Benz was called the Motorwagen and was driven by a four-stroke cycle petrol engine.

There were other engineers and inventors working on petrol-driven motor vehicles at the same time, but Benz was the first to get exclusive rights his engine.

On the 29^th January 1886, Benz was granted the copyright for his very first motorcar which was a three wheeler and made him the originator of the car as it is today.

In the year 1891 the first four wheeled car was build which was affordable and by the year 1900 Benz & Cie was the world’s largest producer of the motor car.

Of special interest in the Mercedes Benz museum in  Stuttgart, Germany where you will be able to see the progress of the first motor car right up to today’s stunning modern vehicles.

Travelling to Durban

Last week I had to take a quick trip to Durban, it was kind of scary cause I had no place to buy tickets and I had very little time and the problem was I need:

1. To book a quick cheap flights
2. To book a car rental

Well, I searched for cheap flights on my phone and came across a great site called Fly.co.za. It was so easy and quick to book a flight that even in my little BLOG post I hope to reach one or two people that will use these guys. So if you want to book flights from Cape Town to Durban, use Fly.co.za.

I also managed to book my car rental through them as well. A total pleasure. Thank you guys.