Category Archives: economic issues

Time on Shale Gas

By 6000 | 6000 | April 6, 2011

Another sensible article on shale gas, its value in the energy demands of the modern world and the environmental dangers of its extraction? Surely not. But yes, it is. Bryan Walsh gives us a few thousand words on the natural gas boom (poor choice of word, I guess), the need for alternative energy sources, the [...]

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Holiday home

By 6000 | 6000 | March 24, 2011

Ah… Yzerfontein. The jewel in the crown of SA’s West Coast. Although, Paternoster also has a reasonable argument for that title and plenty of hipsters will be shouting about Churchaven as well, so perhaps we’ll settle for “one of the jewels in the crown of SA’s West Coast” to prevent any fighting amongst the two [...]

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New Wine Tour

By 6000 | 6000 | March 15, 2011

Now this looks like a good plan. During the Christmas break, we took the kids (and ourselves) on the Cape  Town Sightseeing bus. We did the Waterfront, the CBD, Table Mountain and Camps Bay, before taking two exhausted, happy kids home. For some weird personal reasons, maybe you don’t believe me, so here are some [...]

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No boom boom

By 6000 | 6000 | March 14, 2011

After the recent events in Japan – most notably the er… “issues” at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility following the earthquake – the public in Cape Town and surrounds has been warned not to panic if they see steam apparently leaking from the Koeberg Power Station just up the road from the city. The public are [...]

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What’s the point of…?

By 6000 | 6000 | February 28, 2011

It struck me over the weekend that there are two questions I need answering. 1. What is the point of Somerset West? Yes, what is the point of Somerset West, exactly? Most Capetonians will know Somerset West as the place that ruins your weekend getaway plans by delaying you so much on Friday night that [...]

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