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The City of Cape Town has been named the Best Beach Destination in Africa in the prestigious 2012 World Travel Awards. This comes after Lonely Planet awarded the City second place for the World’s Ten Best Beach Cities in 2011. Cape Town was then described as ‘good-looking, fun-loving, sporty and sociable’. “Achieving this type of international recognition demonstrates that Cape …
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Great Whites attack whale in False Bay
A 30m southern right whale carcass has been spotted offshore near Capricorn beach in Cape Town, the city disaster risk management centre said on Sunday. “The whale carcass is approximately three kilometres past Sunrise Circle after Capricorn beach and can been seen from Baden Powell Drive,” said spokesperson Wilfred Solomons-Johannes. “It has been established that the whale has been bitten …
Read More »Sea Point Promenade comes alive in October
The City of Cape Town have opened Sea Point Promenade to cyclists, skateboarders and rollerbladers during Transport Month. The City of Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee Member for Transport, Roads and Stormwater, Councillor Brett Herron, has announced that as part of its efforts to build an Inclusive City, the City will be experimenting with lifting the prohibition on the use of bicycles, …
Read More »Cape Town shaping up as an entrepreneurial capital
The City of Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee Member for Economic, Environment and Spatial Planning, Alderman Belinda Walker, today launched the Cape Town Activa Web Portal. The portal boasts a vast array of online resources, tools and links for those who want to start and develop a business or secure employment support in Cape Town.Cape Town Activa is a City initiative …
Read More »Empty vessel makes most salvage sense
Picture and story by Herman R Gibbs The attempt to salvage the stranded Japanese fishing vessel, the Eihatsu Maru, will continue into Friday. The vessel ran aground on Clifton Beach in heavy fog early Saturday morning. The salvage team on Wednesday welded a bracket onto the vessel that can withstand the needed pull force, as well as transferring 90 – …
Read More »It’s a fog up. Fears of oil pollution
By Herman R Gibbs The Japanese fishing vessel that ran aground at Clifton in thick fog early on Saturday has raised fears of possible oil pollution. Efforts to re float the Eihatsu Maru, which is carrying bout 90 tons of fuel and 50 tons of fish, have proved fruitless so far. The 28-man crew and their dog Ally were stranded …
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