Tag Archives: Cape Argus

High & mighty prawn in town (just)

By 6000 | 6000 | March 9, 2010

Yes folks, it’s that time of year again when the months training done by cyclists on the local roads – free-wheeling through red robots, riding thirteen abreast, not bothering to buy lights, cycling along the freeways etc etc – come to fruition as they get some roads closed for a little while and then get [...]

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Cape Argus Gender Bending Drug Dealer Confusion

By 6000 | 6000 | January 8, 2010

I read this article in our local newspaper, then I read it again. In fact, I have now read it seventeen times and I am still none the wiser. Strip search turns out to be revealing 7 January 2010, 13:07 By Lavern De Vries Mitchells Plain police will on Thursday charge one of the area’s [...]

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Cyclists still at it

By 6000 | 6000 | February 23, 2009

As yet another cyclist was knocked off his bike in Fish Hoek this weekend: David Swingler was injured while cycling along Kommetjie Road in Fish Hoek late on Saturday morning. Police spokesperson Bernadine Steyn said Swingler and a white Toyota Quantum minibus taxi had been travelling in the same direction on the dual-lane road. They tried [...]

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Another cyclist killed

By 6000 | 6000 | February 16, 2009

With the Cape Argus Cycle Tour only 3 weeks away, another cyclist, Colin van Schalkwyk, died on Saturday after he was hit by a truck in Milnerton. Another terribly sad accident and another family man killed. News24 utilised a convenient if overly-dramatic soundbite for its report title: Cyclists fear for their lives. In there, two telling comments from [...]

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Not blameless

By 6000 | 6000 | November 26, 2008

The flyers for last night’s Cape Argus newspaper were still clinging to the streetlight poles in an act of abject defiance against the gusty south-easter as I crawled my way in to work this morning, decrying (amongst other stuff) another accident involving a city cyclist and a motor vehicle. Once again, in this rather unfair duel [...]

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