There are few places in South Africa, and the world, more beautiful than the Cape Peninsula. This slice of heaven is the perfect place to stay in a holiday home. Incredible natural beauty and brilliant attractions will ensure an unforgettable holiday experience.
Comfort and style
A holiday home in the Cape Peninsula offers you all the comforts of home while situating ...
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General information
Letter to the Department of Community Safety in the Western Cape Government
This is an email that I have sent to the Department of Community Safety in the Western Cape Government asking them if there is any way that we can legally keep up to date with investigations into very serious crimes in our area.
Recently we have had a spate of knife attacks in the peninsula area. Some have turned fatal, and whilst there is a big surge of outrage and media ...
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Education choices in the Cape Point Peninsula
I recently ran into someone who's daughter went to pre-school with my daughter. Whilst my daughter went to do grade R at Fish Hoek Primary her friend went to a different school. After a few "how's it going" type subjects we got onto how the girls were doing at school. From there we actually ended up in a very heated discussion about education, and the role that schools need to ...
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Great White Sharks Season- the best time to go Cage Diving
False Bay is home to perhaps the worlds premium apex predator, the Great White Shark.
Great White Sharks are present in False Bay throughout the year. Their behaviour and location is fairly regular and predictable, being mainly dictated by the habits and availability of prey. This level of predictability makes it easier to determine when are the best times to go and see thes...
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Moving to Fish Hoek – 10 years on
It's hard to believe looking back that it is ten years since our permanent move to Fish Hoek, South Africa. Not being from South Africa it was a big move, there were visas to sort out and other legal issues, not to mention the constant barrage of "South Africa? Really? Is it safe?" from family and friends.
We should have been terrified by the move, but we simply weren't. For...
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KIDS Educare wins a victory for road safety
For some time this web site has been involved in the fight to have the Fish Hoek side of Kommetjie Road made safer. A series of fatal accidents on the road led to an upsurge in community activism. Eventually the road was upgraded, with new safety measures implemented at several accident hotspots.
Whilst this was a huge success for the community (and at Cape Point Chronicle w...
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Illegal Sand Miners Caught by “Green Scorpions”
In a fantastic coup for the Western Cape environmental agencies a syndicate of illegal sand miners has been successfully identified and shut down by the "Green Scorpions". Although this happened outside the jurisdiction of Cape Point Chronicle, the action was initiated by a tip of from a member of the public.
There have been numerous reports in local publications, mainly rea...
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The Black South Easter!
On the Cape Point Peninsula we have two prevailing weather patterns- the south easter and the south wester. Usually these two winds can be catagorized by the south wester being the prevailing wind in Cape Points winter season and the south easter being the norm for summer.
South wester is a strong indicator that bad weather is on the way, it normally blows before and after c...
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Big Walk- Road Closures and Expected Delays
Sunday 10th November 2013 sees the annual Big Walk talking place along Main Road. The walk is taking place between Mowbray and Simon's Town and due to the volume of people taking part some roads will be affected.
This is the official organizers schedule of road closures:
Main Road from Simon's Town to Lower Main Road, Observatory-expect delays due to large volumes of ped...
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The Cape Point Chronicle Guide to Selling Your Stuff on Gumtree
In the past couple of weeks we have been going through a consolidation of household goods at Cape Point Chronicle HQ. Through my Father-in-law selling his house in Durban and sending his house contents to us we had a lot of stuff to get rid of if we wanted to get into our house.
We sold some items at Cash Crusaders in Long Beach Mall- namely a gas heater and a humidifier- bu...
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