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Bridge for Africa Newsletter - October 2024
October 2024 Highlights: Updated Bridge Schedule / Club Results / Bridge Tips / Learning Bridge Online / Statistics This is the seventh newsletter of Bridge for Africa (BfA), a non-profit company which assists bridge players in Africa to play more and better bridge; you will find previous editions of our newsletters in the news section of the Bridge for Africa website where you will also find details of the services BfA provides to clubs and players. Congratulations to the aptly named Bridger team... read more...Friday, 01 November 2024 by Brian Paxton -
BfA Revised Online Bridge Offerings
We have updated our online bridge offering! Our Thursday online bridge session is now in the morning on RealBridge. Each week, you can join us as follows: Tuesday - 14.00 on BBO Thursday - 09.00 on RealBridge Saturday - 14.00 on RealBridge. Tuesday's Pairs session on BBO comprises 24 boards at 6 minutes a board and starts at 14.00. The cost is only $1.50. You can register on BBO from 2 hours, up to 10 minutes before the start time, by using this link: https://www.bridgebase.com/v3/login?cmd=tourneyList&style=hp:BFA or... read more...Sunday, 20 October 2024 by Brian Paxton -
Bedford Bridge Tournament Results
Congratulations to the aptly named Bridger team (John Bridger, Annelie Kachelhofer, Prue Gillespie, Esther Goosen) from Bloemfontein on winning the 2024 Bedford Teams tournament, pipping the Ponting Team (Toni Ponting, Ros Hulley-Miller, Sue Prior and Sugar Rhodes) from the Lowveld by fractions of a percent. The more local Patensie Team came third. David Girdwood and his committee, as well as tournament director Clive Harrison from St Francis Bay, are to be congratulated on an extremely efficiently... read more...Tuesday, 15 October 2024 by Brian Paxton -
Bridge at Constantia Bowling Club
Four sessions of bridge take place at the Constantia Bowling Club, Constantia, Cape Town each week. The Constantina Bridge Club meets on Mondays and Fridays at 09h15. Please contact Doreen Dawson 083 457-5231. The Village Bridge Club meets on Mondays at 13h15 and Thursdays at 09h15. Please contact Graham Spolander 065 893-6215. Visitors and swallows from overseas are most welcome. read more...Tuesday, 08 October 2024 by Brian Paxton -
Le Domaine Bridge Club joins Bridge for Africa
Durban's Le Domaine Bridge Club, the largest bridge club in KwaZulu Natal, is the latest club to join the BfA network of bridge clubs. With remote assistance from Neil Armitage of the Constantiaberg club in Cape Town and Victor Lesk, the developer of the BriAn app, in England, Louise Gibbon and her team methodically mastered the use of the BriAn cellphone scoring app to run their multisession weekly tournaments on Thursdays and Fridays at 09h00. Like other clubs around the country, Le Domaine suffered... read more...Wednesday, 02 October 2024 by Brian Paxton