Tag Archives: Cape Town

Just doing your job?

By 6000 | 6000 | August 26, 2010

Or: “Why you need to be nice to people in Cape Town“. This is a bit of a personal story, but there’s an important message in it (I think), so I’m going to bore you with it anyway. A few months back, the company I worked for closed its doors “for operational reasons”, meaning that [...]

8 Comments Also tagged lawyers, retrenchment, south africa |Posted in annoying people, learning curve, positive thoughts, this is south africa

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 [...]

4 Comments Also tagged athlone, dan plato, helen zille |Posted in annoying people, politics, this is south africa

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 [...]

| 1 Comment Also tagged athlone, cooling towers, demolition |Posted in this is south africa

Gentlemen prefer Blonde?

By 6000 | 6000 | August 1, 2010

Ah yes – the Blonde review that I promised and then never did. Well, when there are other things to do like braai’ing and drinking beer, making a biltong drier with your son and watching a somewhat implausible yet rather amusing film featuring Morgan Freeman and Christopher Walken, restaurant reviews understandably take a back seat. [...]

5 Comments Also tagged blonde, blondedining.co.za, review |Posted in this is south africa

4-0

By 6000 | 6000 | July 3, 2010

Just back from the Argentina v Germany quarter final, slightly drunk and hugely disappointed with the South American capitulation. This sums it up nicely. More photos to be uploaded tomorrow. Watch this space. (Or one very similar to it),

| 1 Comment Also tagged argentina, germany, tschuess maradona, World Cup 2010 |Posted in World Cup 2010, flickr, quota photo

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