Tag Archives: athlone

Damn! Missed!

By 6000 | 6000 | August 23, 2010

As did virtually everyone else. That’s what happens when Dan Plato gets a touch of Premature Eradication and implodes the cooling towers 4 minutes early. Fortunately, there are a great many videos and pictures of the event around, like these from Times Live and Life Quest, for example. Everyone at my “secret” location (Public Parking at [...]

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Dan’s PR disaster

By 6000 | 6000 | August 20, 2010

With the second biggest event of the year due to take place in Cape Town this weekend (remember that World Cup thing we did?) and following on from his extraordinary comments over the Makhaza toilet saga, City Mayor Dan Plato has lurched into yet another PR disaster.  Helen Zille was always going to be a hard [...]

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Soon

By 6000 | 6000 | August 17, 2010

The implosion of “Athlone’s Two Old Ladies” as the Cape Times described them recently (thus terrifying half the elderly population of that suburb) will take place at noon on Sunday. These “Two Old Ladies” in question are the cooling towers at the now defunct Athlone Power Station which are in a poor state of repair [...]

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Not much longer

By 6000 | 6000 | March 27, 2010

Not feeling great today, so quick quota photo taken from the Elton John concert the other night. Those are Cape Town’s Northern Suburbs in the sun, Goodwood through to Bellville. And in the foreground, in the shadow of the mountain, Newlands Stadium. Somewhere between the two (towards the right) is the Athlone Power Station, whose two iconic [...]

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