NEDERBURG is pulling out all the stops to mark the 30th anniversary of its annual Auction of Rare Cape Wines with a celebrity-studded, interactive fashion cabaret in Paarl on April 3. 

The event that plans to transform fashion into performance art has been conceived and choreographed by producer/director supremo Jan Malan, the man who launched the Face of Africa in the late 1990s and who has since gone on to work in New York and Europe. 

Malan is planning what he terms a "fashion experience" in a surprise venue at Nederburg to entertain the strictly by-invitation-only guest list of local and international wine aficionados and high profile personalities attending the glittering post-harvest fixture on the wine and social calendar.

The cabaret will trace the 30 years of style and trends in South Africa from 1975, when Nederburg hosted the country's first wine auction to 2004, highlighting fashion as a social barometer. 

He will feature cabaret artists, professional models, "real people", as well as celebrities and other well-known personalities linked with major events in South Africa over the past three decades. Designers will include fresh young names, established and veteran talent.

The fashion event and exhibition of fashion, décor and beauty will be repeated for the public on Sunday 4 April at Nederburg. 

Tickets will be sold in aid of the South African Organ Donor Foundation at R200 each. Call 0800-226-611 for further details.

GRAWE vol humor en 'n demonstrasie van geskenke uit die tuin is op die program tydens 'n kuier later vandeesmaand in 'n Paarlse plaastuin.

Die motiveringspreker Daniël de Kock sal nuwe horisonne uitlig vir die huis, die tuin en die lewe.

"Tuinjubilasies" word op 26 Februarie om 09:00 in die pragtuin van Danie en Mildie Malan op die plaas Salomonsvlei aangebied, teen R40 elk.

Vir kaartjies, skakel Hermien Verster (872-2582/ 082-440-4001), Mildie Malan (863-2336), Aletta Jonker (872-4346), Heini Kriel (872-5842) of Ilze Mouton (872-2771).

Daar sal dié dag ook uitstallers wees wat tuinartikels te koop aanbied, soos ystermeubels en gazebos vir tuine, kwekeryplante, kreatiewe tafeldekor en 'n uitstalling van kers-en tafeldekorverhuring.

Daglelies en amaryllisaplante sal te koop aangebied word, asook meubels uit Bali.

Ledegeld (R35) vir die tuinbouvereniging kan die dag betaal word.