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Another Tradgic Killing on Kommetjie Road- One readers account

Posted on June 10, 2011June 10, 2011 by Russell Hepworth

Road accident at Kommetjie Rd Quarry Rd intersection

Following the death of Gaby Bouwer it seems that little was done to actually decrease the risk of death and injury on Kommetjie Road, now statistics have caught up with us again and someone else has had to pay the ultimate price for a) the general negligence of drivers and b) the ineptitude of authorities to do something about it. I was going to write my own piece about this ki...

Developments in the Cape Point Peninsula- how can you have your say?

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Russell Hepworth

New developments pop up like mushrooms in the Cape Point Peninsula, and one wonders where they are all going to go. Recently the City gave up its legal battle against the development at Dassenberg, which got the community up in arms, but this is by no means the only property project on the go at the moment in the Deep South, nor will it be the last. Recently plans were appr...

Top class football entertainment right here on the Cape Point Penninsula

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Russell Hepworth

A passionate crowd, three goals, a fight, two yellow cards and a sending off- and I only saw the last 15 minutes. Was this a European game on pay TV or a PSL game on SABC? No, it was Fish Hoek versus Camps Bay on Fish Hoek Sports Field, all seats were sold out and it was standing room only. For those of you who follow the beautiful game it was no festival of silky skills but...

Longbeach Mall- Why all the empty units?

Posted on April 25, 2011April 25, 2011 by Russell Hepworth

I don't often go to the mall, for me it is the most effective waste of my time imaginable. However, occasionally I have a need for something and have to drag myself there. Many times I just walk from the eastern entrance up to pick and pay. On Sunday I was with D and it was raining heavily so we parked in the underground. We needed to go to Pick and Pay and the photo shop on th...

Dassenburg Development- What Is Going On Here?

Posted on April 19, 2011July 16, 2011 by Russell Hepworth

The general area of the proposed development- image thanks to Google EarthWork has begun on the new housing development at the foot of the Dassenberg Mountain (at the base of Ou Kaapse Weg). Clearing began last week so it seems unlikely that the development will not happen, unless the developers go out of business.This makes one question what kind of a process has been gone thr...

Jupiter Returns to the Cape Point Evenings

Posted on September 2, 2010September 2, 2010 by Russell Hepworth

For the first time in a while the skies are relatively clear tonight and I noticed that Jupiter has returned to our late evening skies. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system and many believe that it is a failed star. It has all the elements in it to make a star, it just falls short of creating enough pressure to cause a chain reaction as in the Sun. Jupiter is a ga...

Cape Point Chronicle- what it is all about?

Posted on August 18, 2010August 18, 2010 by Russell Hepworth

This is my first post to this new resource for the Cape Peninsula and I would like to take a few moments to explain to you what this site is all about. I love living in this area, and actually start to feel homesick if I spend too much time on the other side of the mountain: and I have every right to feel that way since I chose this area to live in, having not being born any...