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bolo'bolo - a new vegan restaurant in Muizenberg

Saturday, 03 March 2012 12:08 Written by Administrator

We're delighted to announce that Aragorn and Steffi, two of the directors of the South African Vegan Society, have opened a new vegan restaurant in Muizenberg Village, just outside of central Cape Town.

bolo'bolo is described as a cosy plant-based café and alternative bookstore. You can try a variety of delicious and well-priced light snacks, nourishing meals, sweet treats, organic Fairtrade coffee, organic teas, smoothies, shakes and freshly extracted juices there, all 100% animal-product free and all as local, organic and ethical as possible.

bolo'bolo also stock a lovely range of books, including a number of vegan cookbooks, animal rights literature and other titles on sustainable living, social justice and more.

If you live in the Cape Town area, or are popping through there on holiday, be sure to visit. As an added bonus, all paid-up SAVS members get a 10% discount on their bills!

Visit their website for more info: www.bolobolo.co.za

SAVS t-shirt design competition

Tuesday, 25 October 2011 21:18 Written by Matthew

Hello friends!

We have decided to hand the design of our new T-shirts over to you, our members/subscribers.

We invite you to come up with your own designs and submit them to the South African Vegan Society by sending us an email at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . We'll put it up to a vote and the winner will get a free T-shirt, a voucher worth R250 for either Closer in Cape Town or Greenside Cafe in Joburg, as well as having their design printed on a fresh batch of shirts. Anything goes so get creative!

Entries open on 15 October and will close on 1 January 2012.

PS: For our last run, we printed two different graphics in a few sizes of guy and girl cuts. We have also had some requests for different colours, and some bigger sizes, so please let us know if you have any suggestions regarding the T-shirts themselves.

We look forward to some great designs!

The SA Vegan Society and Health24

Friday, 27 May 2011 12:10 Last Updated on Friday, 05 August 2011 12:10 Written by Matthew

Recently Health24.com has published two articles about Veganism that we at the South African Vegan Society consider to have been totally misleading and indicative of a lack of understanding surrounding Veganism on their part.

The first article entitled "Vegans' elevated heart risk requires Omega-3s and B12" was published on April 8th 2011 but contradicts the study that it is based on.

The 2nd article published by Health24 on the 12th of April, which was alarmingly called "Do vegan diets endanger child health?" unfairly linked Veganism to the death of a French child. The Vegan Society released our own response to all the claims made in the article.

The South African Vegan Society was then given an opportunity to have a lengthy discussion about Veganism which you can read here. We encourage you to read the article and take part in the debate going on in the comments sections.

We would like to thank Health24 for allowing us to be heard again, and we hope that they will now be able to present the facts about Veganism to all of their readers.

Yet another response to Health24

Monday, 12 September 2011 12:31 Written by Administrator

'DietDoc' IV van Heerden has, once more, made a number of false and disparaging claims about veganism in her recent article, 'Protein facts for vegetarians' (http://www.health24.com/dietnfood/Vegetarian/15-3961,42728.asp). The article has a strong bias towards dairy and displays unwarranted prejudice towards veganism. One has to wonder where van Heerden is obtaining her dietary information - the 1952 Dairy Institute Guide to Nutrition or the Weston A. Price Foundation, perhaps? Either way, the South African Vegan Society is dismayed by Health24's persistently problematic misrepresentation of veganism; as we have observed in a number of previous critical responses to 'DietDoc' and other Health24 columnists, this essentially anti-vegan position is based on poor research and biased presentation of data, and seems curiously out of touch with contemporary research in the field of nutrition.

'Vegan Sunday' Buffet

Wednesday, 11 May 2011 14:23 Written by Matthew

Hey everyone,
You may have heard about the buffets going on in Linden, well this week our very own Aragorn will be the guest chef.

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