Tag Archives: crime

I needed that…

By 6000 | 6000 | July 29, 2012

Back to Cape Town and back home after a couple of days at the cottage and I have realised that I needed a break there to remind me that this is a good country to live in. Don’t get me wrong. SA is my home. My house is here, my wife and kids were born [...]

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Two front teeth

By 6000 | 6000 | July 2, 2012

Meanwhile in the Isle of Man… Things move slowly here. It’s like Cape Town slow and then some. Let me enlighten you as to the current to story over here on the IOMtoday website: Police are requesting for information regarding an assault which occurred in Willaston at around 11:30pm on Saturday. Officers want to speak [...]

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Ten Years

By 6000 | 6000 | October 7, 2011

I remember going and watching some comedy festival or other soon after I arrived in SA back in 2004. One of the British comics there was poking fun at the low cost of living here and the favourable exchange rate, tying it in to a sign he’d seen near Cape Town: Please Do Not Feed [...]

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Rabbit Riots

By 6000 | 6000 | August 20, 2011

With the UK riots just a distant memory now and the majority of the perpetrators safely behind bars already, I was shocked to find a family who appear to have got away almost scot-free; this despite documented evidence that they were part of the problems faced by Britain at that time. Rest assured that I have already passed on [...]

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Unlucky

By 6000 | 6000 | February 16, 2011

More blogworthy news from South Africa to share with the the world. A suspected robber, who has been on the run from police ever since they raided his Pretoria rental home two weeks ago, got the fright of his life when he was arrested as he unexpectedly sat down next to the officer investigating his [...]

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