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One year ago

In grey and miserable conditions much like yesterday and today, this happened:   You may recall that then mayor, Dan Plato, pressed the button a little early and most people missed the big event. One year on, nothing has been done to the Athlone Power Station site, but it’s amazing to see how normal the [...]

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Damn! Missed!

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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Soon

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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