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Unusually dry winter on the Cape Point Peninsula

Posted on by Russell Hepworth
Lewis Gay Dam, Cape Point Peninsula, Water Levels 19-8-2010
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

Posted on by Russell Hepworth
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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We Need To Be More Optimistic About The Cape Point Peninsula

Posted on by Russell Hepworth
I have just finished reading a wonderful blog post by a gentleman called Peter Carruthers (you can read the article by visiting www.petesweekly.com.) Peter is a marketing expert: although now living in Norway he originally hails from these fine shores. The article was written after one of his visits home (it reads like he was in Durban, but the sentiments are just as true fo...
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New look for Cape Point Chronicle

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If you are new to the site then don't worry about this article, just have a browse and enjoy the content. Returning readers will be wondering what is going on. I have decided to have a bit of a change. Recently I have realized that there is now a lot of information on the site. The previous layout didn't make this obvious. Visitors tended to visit one article and then leave ...
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Cape Point Peninsula National Park- Mountain Zebra Foal Born

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Mountain Zebra Foal Born In Cape Point National Park I read today with great interest that a Mountain Zebra foal was born in the park on Tuesday (19th July). More accurately the new arrival is a Cape Mountain Zebra [Equus zebra zebra], one of two species of mountain zebras (the other being the Hartmann's Mountain Zebra [Equus zebra hartmannea]). If you are ever confronted b...
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‘Current treatment of ADHD’- You are invited to a talk in Hout Bay

Posted on by Russell Hepworth
I was contacted by one the visitors to the site who has a very good cause to which they are associated. As someone who has a two and a half year old who is full of energy it is also one with which I can readily sympathize. The Hout Bay Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Support Group has organized a talk/lecture about the current treatments of the disorder. All the det...
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Apologies

Posted on by Russell Hepworth
If you tried to view the site this morning (Sunday, 10th July) and got a weird bunch of nonsense instead then please accept my sincere apologies- as you can see, things are up and running as normal again. I was updating the system I use for administering the site and the auto updater failed, resulting in the error messages. It then took me 3 hours to discover which file was ...
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Be careful where you pick mushrooms and flowers in the Cape Point Peninsula

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I have just received an email from a reader of the site who was fined R1500 at the weekend for picking mushrooms outside the Cape Point Nature Reserve. Whilst I personally think they have a case for not paying the fine please bear in mind that it is illigal to pick ANY flora in the National Parks. Further, the TMNP own huge amounts of land on the Peninsula, in fact more land is...
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Total Eclipse of the Moon- Cloud Over the Cape Point Peninsula Nearly Spoilt it.

Posted on by Russell Hepworth
The moon during an eclipse, showing just a thin sliver left
The clouds were scudding across the sky following one of the most violent thunderstorms we have had for a while. Fortunately it stopped raining and the strong south wester provided enough breaks in the clouds to allow fleeting glimpses of this centuries longest total eclipse of the moon. Although not as rare as a total eclipse of the sun, nor as spectacular it is a sight sti...
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Dassenberg Development- Lets start an email campaign

Posted on by Russell Hepworth
I have just submitted the following email through the DA web site to the leadership (I doubt Helen reads them all personally): Dear Mrs. Zille I considered reporting this as corruption, but then considered that the individuals involved should get the benifit of the doubt. http://www.iolproperty.co.za/roller/news/entry/dassenberg_property_development_in_the The Helen Zille a...
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