Tag Archives: south africa

RESPONSE TO MISLEADING COMMUNIQUE ON CENSUS 2011

By 6000 | 6000 | October 10, 2011

Sorry for the shouting in the title above. The perils of cut and paste. I thought that I’d share this info with my South African readers who may or may not (this being SA) be aware that the 2011 Census began today. And it seems that there may be some confusion over who will be [...]

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Wild Life

By 6000 | 6000 | October 10, 2011

Wow. I need a weekend to recover from the weekend I just had. The hard work and investment of time, effort and money just seems so worth it after a fantastic family weekend which we shared with tortoises, goose barnacles, caterpillars (Cape Lappet moth and TBI Pine emperor moth), stick insects and even a puff [...]

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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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QR codes at Stodels

By 6000 | 6000 | October 5, 2011

On Sunday morning, I was told in no uncertain terms by my 5 year old son that it was time to plant some more veg in the vegetable patch, so I took the kids down the road to Stodels to buy some seedlings. And it was while we was there that we came across this: Alex [...]

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Coldplay in Cape Town: transport & event details

By 6000 | 6000 | October 3, 2011

This sort of information is always done to death on the local interwebs, but even after numerous big events there still remains a subsection of the stadium-visiting public who reckon they should be able to drive up to the stadium gates, park by the turnstiles and simply pop in – and then get pissed off and [...]

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