Archive for August, 2011

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 [read more]

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 [read more]

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 [read more]

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 [read more]

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 [read more]

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. [read more]

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 [read more]

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 [read more]

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 [read more]

On August 9, 1956, 20,000 women marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria, now we get a day of work to celebrate. This event may have happened 55 years ago but the relevance of their actions resonates as strongly today as it did then. They walked for equality, and would probably feel the need to do so again today. [read more]