Tag Archives: Cape Town

Cape Town e-Toll Calculator

By 6000 | 6000 | February 10, 2011

As Gautengers gear up for hefty tolls on their new state of the art car parks roads, those lovely people at ensightnetworks have launched a handy e-Toll calculator so that you can see just how much extra it’s going to cost the Vaalies to sit in queues all day get from one place to another. [...]

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What more must they do?

By 6000 | 6000 | February 9, 2011

The dry-run of the dry-run for tomorrow’s Opening of Parliament and the State of the Nation Address was last night. Having two dry-runs means that any problems discovered in the first dry-run can be ironed out in the second dry-run and any problems discovered in the second dry-run might be ironed out by the time the real [...]

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M5 slip road madness

By 6000 | 6000 | February 7, 2011

OK – got to keep this one short, because I’m running out of battery and the pictures should really speak for themselves. Coming home this evening (just before 6pm), as usual, I took the Racecourse Road slip road off the M5 South and joined the traffic at the lights. However, not as usual, when the [...]

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Road Closures for the Opening of Parliament 2011

By 6000 | 6000 | February 7, 2011

Yes folks, it’s that time of year again when Parliament finally comes back to work after the summer break (noting that the rest of us have been back at least 5 weeks already) and JZ stands up and tells us how many jobs he intends to create this year. Then we can all laugh heartily [...]

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Big Boat coming

By 6000 | 6000 | February 4, 2011

If my sources are correct – and my sources are very rarely wrong – then at about lunchtime today, the Queen Mary 2 should be heading into Cape Town for a brief stop. This won’t be her first visit to the Mother City – she was here back in March last year. Although no longer [...]

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