Category Archives: annoying people

City to frack CPD?

By 6000 | 6000 | March 14, 2012

Wow. This is huge. The contents of a previously confidential and completely fictitious City of Cape Town report which were revealed during routine business in the Western Cape High Court this morning look set to cause outrage across the city. The report, commissioned late last year, outlines details of plans to move the Cenotaph from its [...]

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6 months on…

By 6000 | 6000 | March 8, 2012

UPDATES in the comments section below. …and a day, because I forgot to post this yesterday. Remember this post, when I suggested that things are slowly but surely falling apart in the City of Cape Town. Well, here’s a good example – a pothole on a shared pavement/cycle path that I reported back on the 7th September last year. [...]

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ARGH!

By 6000 | 6000 | March 6, 2012

In today’s news: Religion forces science teacher to quit A science teacher at an upmarket Cape Town school has found herself at odds with senior staff over her desire to teach evolution in science lessons. She said that the teachers in the school’s science department were mainly Christian and that she was reprimanded over teaching the [...]

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When Fracking Goes Wrong…

By 6000 | 6000 | March 5, 2012

Saw this on twitter and had to share… When fracking goes wrong the environmental impacts aren’t as severe as when coal mining goes right. — Francois Fourie (@FrancoisFourie) March 5, 2012 This after an Econometrix report suggested that if estimates of the amount of shale gas under the Karoo were confirmed:  …it could provide the [...]

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Whose Fault Is It Anyway?

By 6000 | 6000 | February 28, 2012

Part – indeed much – of my journey home from work features the M5 and much of that journey is usually rather slow. It gives me a chance to have a look around at the fetid industrial heartland of Cape Town, before I head down into the leafier suburbs further south. As I’ve mentioned once [...]

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