It has come to the attention of the Cape Point Chronicle that the residents of Capri are less than satisfied with the prospect of gaining SRA status for the area. The major resistance is the extra levy on their rates. In an attempt to make the proposal more appealing to all residents the committee is looking into the possibility of creating an independent state.
At present t...
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Author: Russell Hepworth
Homes wanted for four wonderful dogs
A good client of my furniture business is having to give up four of her dogs due to personal reasons. I have spent time at her house and can vouch for their loving and gentle nature, despite all four being rescued dogs. Anyone who is able to help out here should contact Jeanne-Marie on 082 371 2183 (phone or sms) or jeannemarieklopper@yahoo.com. Alternatively you can email me r...
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Fish Hoek Pre-Primary Schools- The Search Continues: Fledglings
In an earlier post I wrote about how our two year old daughter is in a great day care but that we are starting to look around for a pre-school for her. On Saturday we went to the open day at Fish Hoek Pre-Primary; today it was the turn of Fledglings.
Fledglings is not one of those businesses that shouts about their prescence. It is run from an unassuming property on Kommetji...
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Pre-Primary Schools in the Fish Hoek Valley: The Search Begins
My daughter turned two in January and is currently in a wonderful creche. It is small, run by 'Aunty' Jenny and we feel safe in the knowledge that between 8 in the morning and 3 in the afternoon our pride and joy is being looked after as well, if not better, than if she were at home.
It was not always the case. We originally had our daughter in a creche that I will not name ...
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Responsible Dog Walking In The Cape Point Peninsula
There has been a long going correspondence in the local free papers regarding the lack of responsibility among the far south's dog walkers- usually regarding not picking up the brown smelly stuff. I was particularly mobilized to write this post in response to a letter in Thursday's paper regarding the introduction of a 'dog walking club' on Fish Hoek playing fields. Under the p...
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Solar Flare Causing Dangerous Levels of UV in Cape Point Peninsula
A solar event, roughly 93 million miles from Earth will have long lasting effects on us in Southern Africa, the Western Cape and in particular the Cape Point Peninsula, if we don't take precautions over the coming months.
The Sun has spewed out billions of tons of radioactive material from its surface in an astrological event called a 'solar flare': think of it as the Sun ...
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A Cape Point Landmark in Poor Condition- Slangkop Lighthouse: TLC Required
The wind was howling from the South East, low clouds scudding over the top of the hills, white horses playing out to sea as I approached one of the Cape Peninsula’s most iconic landmarks- Slangkop Lighthouse.
Its hard not to be impressed by this symbol of man’s attempts to tame Cape Point. There are few better experiences of driving around the area than that of coming over t...
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Coastal Protection Zone By-Law: Cape Town Takes A Step In the Right Direction
The city of Cape Town has released a draft proposal for a new by-law, designed to protect what is left of our 230km of coastline from further development, and hopefully save the city some money in the process.
Several developments around the coast cost the city a small fortune to keep maintained, several of them are in the Cape Point Peninsula area (the railway to Simons T...
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Enhance your experience with an RSS feed
Whilst the Cape Point Peninsula may be in sight of the end of the world this is no reason not to keep up with world wide technology. If you visit a lot of information web sites (of which Cape Point Chronicle is one) you may find yourself clicking between a lot of different places on the web. You can let the technology do this work for you by using an RSS feed reader, and taking...
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Hout Bay and the Cape Point Peninsula Internet News Service
I enjoy doing things for Cape Point Chronicle, and I am flattered that anybody actually reads this stuff. So imagine my delight when I received a ping back that an article had been published on another site (with full credit for me of course).
Cape Point Chronicle was never devised to be a news service, I don't have the time or the inclination to make it one- the things on t...
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