Category Archives: this is south africa

Cape Town Stadium: Truly Magnificent

By 6000 | 6000 | January 24, 2010

As promised, I can say I was there at the first ever football match played at Cape Town’s 2010 World Cup stadium. And what an experience. As ever, a big football match in the Mother City brought out the true spirit of the Rainbow Nation – every colour, every age – all just there to [...]

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Here is the answer

By 6000 | 6000 | January 21, 2010

I debated long and hard about this post, but then I decided that although it goes against a lot of the rules that I have set on 6000 miles… , they were my rules anyway and it would be fine to bend them a little. If you’re me. This approach has worked for monarchies and [...]

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Don’t miss out

By 6000 | 6000 | January 20, 2010

It’s getting close to closing date for the third sales phase of World Cup 2010 tickets and you’d be silly to chance it and hope that you can buy them over the counter a bit later. Even though FIFA have promised to make it easy for South Africans to do just that, there’s a good [...]

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Another reason that South Africa can’t host the 2010 World Cup

By 6000 | 6000 | January 19, 2010

Forget the Angolans, the sharks and the naughty people with knives. Have you seen the number of flippin’ terrifying bugs there are out there? Even in my Cape Town garden (which is actually in Europe), there’s some nasty stuff about: And I haven’t even mentioned the killer bees and the moths, (which are probably, like, killer moths). Once the [...]

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Utter tosh

By 6000 | 6000 | January 15, 2010

But it’s not just the SA papers that write complete rubbish. Step forward our old favourite the Daily Mail – describing the shark attack at Fishhoek. Fiddling with his swimming goggles as he strolled across one of Cape Town’s most popular beaches, Lloyd Skinner did not notice anything amiss. With temperatures in the 90s, the sand was [...]

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