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Fire

By 6000 | 6000 | February 8, 2011

Quota video time and since there’s no decent football on tonight due to the plethora of international friendlies tomorrow, I thought that I would remind myself of the Premiership by giving you the theme tune of the international feed for that league, Kasabian’s Fire. There’s a South African link as well, since the video was [...]

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DLP 011 EC

By 6000 | 6000 | February 9, 2010

On a day when the South African Weather Service warned of a heat wave and the danger of runaway fires, the driver of this Ford Mondeo, registration plate DLP 011 EC – from the self-named “Friendly Province” – decided it was a good day to drop his lit cigarette butt out of the window. Obviously, I [...]

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What a difference a day made…

By 6000 | 6000 | March 18, 2009

Twenty-four little hours. Brought the smoke and the fires. Where there used to be green. Before and after – The Devils Peak Fire Houses in High Cape and Vredehoek (where I used to live) were evacuated at 1 o’clock this morning as high winds threatened drive the fire into residential areas. Spectacular iol pictures. Today, [...]

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