Category Archives: in the news

$aving

By 6000 | 6000 | January 22, 2012

A couple of weeks ago, Eskom warned us that we were once teetering on the edge of load-shedding (aka “rolling blackouts”) and that we must try to save as much electricity as possible to prevent this. People see this as counter-intuitive coming from the people who generate our electricity and therefore make more money when [...]

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Red Hot Chili Peppers in South Africa in 2013

By 6000 | 6000 | January 20, 2012

Yes, apparently this time the rumours might be true: The Red Hot Chili Peppers are set to tour South Africa (ie. visit Joburg and Cape Town) in 2013. We’ve all heard that the Chilis will be playing in South Africa in 2010 before the World Cup and in 2010 after the World Cup and that [...]

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CSI lies

By 6000 | 6000 | January 18, 2012

I’m hugely busy and I note that James still has’t published anything beyond his salad, so I’m just going to share this article I read in the Grauniad last night on “CSI Oxford” – or rather LGC Forensics, the private company who deal with the science side of many of the high profile criminal cases [...]

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The Dangers of Raw Fennel & Almond Salad

By 6000 | 6000 | January 16, 2012

Tune into James Lech’s blog today and there is a recipe for a Raw Fennel & Almond Salad. James, lest we forget, is not only ”Africa’s #1 Dog Whisperer”, with powers that don’t include stopping his dogs from attacking young children, he also follows a vegan diet (as do his dogs). While there’s plenty of evidence [...]

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Political Soundbite(s) of the Day

By 6000 | 6000 | January 11, 2012

Here’s Alex Perry (you may remember him from such articles as “Why Cape Town’s Woodstock Rocks“) in Time Magazine with a scathing piece detailing “How The ANC Lost Its Way“. To be honest, there’s not a lot of new stuff here for the local audience – we are used to the cut and thrust of [...]

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