Events in September 2020
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September 9, 2020
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Women's DayBig Bay, Blouberg, Cape TownWomen's Day Swim 2018, brought to you by Mica Cape Swim Series, safety and hosting by Big Bay Events.
ENTRIES ARE OPEN, Go to www.bigbayevents.co.za to enter.
Venue: Big Bay Lifesaving Club
Registration: 8:30-9:30
Race Briefing: 09:45
Race Start: 10:00Cost:
1,600m R150 online before 08/08/2018 at 11:55 am
Late entry R200 -
September 24, 2020
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Heritage Day SwimOceana Power Boat Club, V&A WaterfrontHeritage Day Swim is brought to you by Mica Cape Swim Series, saftey and hosting by Big Bay Events.
Go to www.bigbayevents.co.za to register.
Venue: Oceana Power Boat Club
Regsistration: 08:00-:08:30
Race Start: 09:00Cost:
800m R100
1,600m R170
4,800m R225–
Freedom Swim Series - Heritage Day Swim
Oceana Power Boat ClubWaterfrontCape Town, 7448South Africa+27827705798The Freedom Swim Series is a succession of cold water Cape ocean swim races to promote swimming and to raise funds for good causes.
Each swim takes place on a public holiday specifically to celebrate these significant days and South Africa’s history and heritage. They aim to raise awareness of the significance of these public holidays and to give back by raising funds for causes which are related to these national public holidays.
Each swim in the series is detailed below.Some of the swims in the Freedom Swim Series are qualifiers for the Freedom Swim www.facebook.com/freedomswim
We will also you keep you posted about other Freedom Swim Qualifiers
even if they are not a part of the Swim Series.The Swims are as follows:
1. YOUTH DAY SWIM - 3km solo race
Date: June 16 each year
Venue: Camps Bay Beach
Time: 9am (registration), Race starts at 10am.Categories:
Males – open
Females – open
Males 40+
Females 40+Youth Day commemorates the uprising against Bantu Education in the mid 70s and the Youth Day Swim raises funds for the education of disadvantaged youths.
2. WOMEN'S DAY SWIM - 4km relay race
Date: 9 August each year
Venue: Camps Bay beach
Time: 9am (registration)
Race starts at 10amCategories: Relays
This day commemorates 9 August 1956 when women participated in a national march to petition against pass laws (legislation that required African persons to carry a document on them to ‘prove’ that they were allowed to enter a ‘white area’).
3. HERITAGE DAY SWIM - 2.5km / 5km solo race
Date: 24 September each year
Venue: Oceana Power Boat Club
Time: 9am (registration)
Race starts at 10amCategories:
5km Solo: (Qualifier for the Cadiz Freedom Swim 2010)
Male – open
Female – open
Male 40+
Female 40+2.5 km Solo:
Male - open
Female - open
Male 40+
Female 40+Heritage Day celebrates South African culture in the form of creative expression, our historical inheritance, language, the food we eat, the land in which we live, the sum total of wild life and scenic parks, sites of scientific or historical importance, national monuments, historic buildings, works of art, literature and music, oral traditions and museum collections together with their documentation.
4. HUMAN RIGHTS DAY SWIM - 2.5km solo race
Date: 21 March each year
Venue: Camps Bay Beach
Time: 8:45am (registration opposite Cafe Caprice, Victoria Road)
Briefing: 9:50am
Race starts at 10amCategories:
Males – open
Females – open
Males 40+
Females 40+Human Rights Day commemorates the gunning down of demonstrators by police in Sharpeville and aims at promoting respect for human rights, the protection, development and attainment of human rights, and to monitor and assess the observance of human rights in SA.
5. RECONCILIATION DAY SWIM - race
Date: 16 December each year
Venue: Clifton 3rd Beach
Time: 8: 45am for registration
Briefing: 9:50am
Race starts at 10am6. BRIAN CURTIS MILE - race
Venue: Elgin Country Club, Grabouw, Near Cape Town
see the Brian Curtis Mile Facebook pageFREEDOM DAY SWIM - extreme race
Freedom Day commemorates the first ever democratic elections held on 27 April 1994.Date: Close to Freedom Day every year (With contingency date)
Solo: 7.5km from Robben Island to Big Bay, Bloubergstrand
Time: Race starts at 10amCategories:
Solos – non wetsuit
Relays – wetsuit
Relays – non wetsuit
Relays – schools
Relays – corporatesBeneficiary: Vista Nova School for Children with Cerebral Palsy and/or other learning disorders.
Vista Nova School (http://www.vistanova.co.za/) cares for 400 children with special needs from all over the Cape Peninsula. Remedial education and therapies are provided to learners from the age of three to eighteen, spanning from nursery school right through to Grade 12. Many of the children have learning barriers, are physically challenged or have cerebral palsy. Teachers and therapists work together to ensure that all children are empowered to perform to the best of their abilities, leading happy and productive lives.
Swim Series - General Information:
Completing 3 out the 4 swims (ex Freedom swim) can act as a qualifier for Freedom Swim
Human Right Day swim will be a qualifying swim for Freedom Swim 2011First place in each category win prizes compliments of Speedo.
Wetsuit competitors are welcome but not eligible for prizesFriends and Family are welcome to attend and give support or bring a picnic basket or buckets and spades or whatever works for you, but don't forget to bring suntan cream!
