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Peter Delmar – Greed killing our World Cup prospects

By 6000 | 6000 | February 4, 2010

Following on from my Ashanti Lodge post (and their manager’s “charmless reply“), this from Peter Delmar in The Times yesterday: You can stay at the two-star B&B for under R600 a night per room, including breakfast, which is about as much as it’s worth. But, the proprietor told me, she was doubling the price for the [...]

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Busy Day

By 6000 | 6000 | January 23, 2010

Today always promised to be a hectic day – from appointments in the morning, lunch with football friends and an afternoon at the Stadium through to the fancy dress party in the evening. Hence I am utilising the somewhat risky, but very helpful “scheduled post” option on WordPress. And I’m giving you a quota photo of the all-new, [...]

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Don’t miss out

By 6000 | 6000 | January 20, 2010

It’s getting close to closing date for the third sales phase of World Cup 2010 tickets and you’d be silly to chance it and hope that you can buy them over the counter a bit later. Even though FIFA have promised to make it easy for South Africans to do just that, there’s a good [...]

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Another reason that South Africa can’t host the 2010 World Cup

By 6000 | 6000 | January 19, 2010

Forget the Angolans, the sharks and the naughty people with knives. Have you seen the number of flippin’ terrifying bugs there are out there? Even in my Cape Town garden (which is actually in Europe), there’s some nasty stuff about: And I haven’t even mentioned the killer bees and the moths, (which are probably, like, killer moths). Once the [...]

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Utter tosh

By 6000 | 6000 | January 15, 2010

But it’s not just the SA papers that write complete rubbish. Step forward our old favourite the Daily Mail – describing the shark attack at Fishhoek. Fiddling with his swimming goggles as he strolled across one of Cape Town’s most popular beaches, Lloyd Skinner did not notice anything amiss. With temperatures in the 90s, the sand was [...]

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