To celebrate National Parks Week SANParks are giving all South Africans free entry to Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve. The offer is from 12 to 16 September 2011 and all you need to do is turn up at the gate with a South African ID book.
This is a brilliant offer, especially if you are not a Wild Card owner, as the entry fee is a bit steep (if you are a fa...
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Month: August 2011
Education in Masiphumelele
Today I would pick up Education as issue in this community. Masiphumelele has one primary school, Ukhanyo Primary School and one high school, Masiphumelele High School. Both schools are doing their level best to produce the best quality learners for the community. Both schools are experiencing overcrowding. Each school is running well over 1300 learners with average of 50 learn...
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NSRI issue shark warning for False Bay coastline
The NSRI have issued their annual shark warning for False Bay. Generally the sharks are in False Bay all year round but tend to stay in the deeper water, patrolling areas around Seal Island.
Towards spring however the sharks can move inshore in larger numbers (you will always get the odd character patrolling inshore waters all year round). They are searching for fish and ray...
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Be Careful Where and When You Park in Fish Hoek
Recently there has been a big issue kicked up by a parking ticket given to a newspaper writer, for the local paper. He was given a fine for parking in a loading bay on a Sunday morning. Judging by the response in the paper, letters, and SMS's feelings are mixed between the driver being in the wrong and the police being over officious.
Personally, I think that if you do somet...
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Introducing Precious Mzuvukile- New Contributor to Cape Point Chronicle
As a way of starting to inform your audience about myself and Masiphumelele community; I am a resident and a community leader in Masiphumelele. To be a community leader in Masiphumelele means you are leading in organizing the community settlement, community welfare issues, socio-economic issues and educational issues. My leadership role also comes in during times of disasters; ...
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Postcards from Masiphumelele
A New Contributor Joins Cape Point Chronicle
On the Cape Point Peninsula there are two very distinct levels to our society, and although they are separated by nothing more than a road or two, they may as well be the dark side of the moon.
These two sides are typically the 'haves' and 'have-nots'. There may be shades of grey here and there, but it seems to me that in the are...
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Massive Water Waste at Zandvlei Caravan Park
Cape Point Peninsula Caravan Park wastes approximately '50 tonnes' of water a day!
So far this winter has been unusually dry and mild on the Cape Point Peninsula, we have had far below the average rainfall and if this continues our water reserves are likely to be dangerously low come the end of summer. We need to be very careful with our water usage and even then it seems like...
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Glad to be living in the civilized Cape Point Peninsula
If you are a regular reader of my drivel then you will know that I am a recent arrival to the beautiful shores of the Cape Point Peninsula. I moved here in September of 2005 and haven’t regretted the move once.
At the time a lot of friends (some of them from the Cape Point area) thought that I was mad. Why on earth would I want to live in a place like this when my alternative ...
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Unusually dry winter on the Cape Point Peninsula
We were very happy in our house today. It rained! Yes, we were happy that it rained. The garden was as dry as toast and you don’t need to be a climatologist to know that the nice winter weather we have been enjoying will lead to water shortages in the Cape Point Peninsula come the end of summer. In recent years we have been made increasingly aware of climatic problems such as g...
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Enjoy National Women’s Day
On August 9, 1956, 20,000 women marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against the proposed amendments to the Urban Areas Act (commonly known as the pass laws) of 1950.
The pass laws were the manifestation of the apartheid ideology and put the control of people’s movements in the hands of the authorities (whites). It made segregation legal and divided whole co...
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