You don’t want to be found in the back of one of these vans. former Fidentia boss — accused of theft and fraud involving hundreds of millions of rands — suffered an “extremely humiliating” sexual assault in a jam-packed prison van taking him from the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court to Pollsmoor … yu can read the article here
Utumishi kwa wote
South Africa Police Service
Totally unrelated: A recent police study found that you’re much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run
Helderberg,
Somerset West
Contrast my earlier post with this … is my apart too small or too large?!
During the Apartheid Era blacks were evicted from properties that were in areas designated as “white only” and forced to move into segregated townships. Separate townships were established for each of the three designated non-white race groups (blacks, coloureds and Indians)
Most South African towns and cities will have at least one township associated with them. Today they are often viewed as just one of the many suburbs that an urban area might have
Forced removal from city centres to townships has continued in post-apartheid South Africa. The difference is that under apartheid all black people faced forced removals to townships while now it is only the poor living in shack settlements that face eviction to townships on the peripheries of cities. In Cape Town and Durban this has given rise to mass resistance.
Khayelitsha: located on the Cape Flats in the City of Cape Town. The name is Xhosa for New Home. It is reputed to be the largest and fastest growing township in South Africa
Around 70% of residents still live in shacks and one in three people has to walk 200 meters or further to access water
crime rates remain very high and that only a small portion of residents see improvements as a result of infrastructure and welfare interventions
Somewhere between Cape Town and Mosselbay
Western Cape
Somewhere between Cape Town and Mosselbay
Western Cape
South Africa’s beautiful suburb on the Western Cape Coast that is home to luxury houses of Cape Town’s wealthiest residents. Residents here enjoy beautifully designed homes with panoramic views of the Ocean and beach and ofcourse the most beautiful sunsets!! Local life is casual and in the evening residents and holiday makers can be found enjoying sundowners at the many chic sidewalk cafés on the beachfront.
Glen beach Villas,
Camps Bay
Taken from Camps Bay beach
Wescamp Villa,
Camps Bay
These were taken in 2005 Dec with a canon powershot!
213 days ago I married the most wonderful person. I have since learnt to love and to be loved. I have known to dream, hope and share little moments and life has added meaning and purpose and I have experienced the joy of a shared life!
Todays post is dedicated to the woman I love; sweetheart, many women do noble things, but you surpass them all. I have full confidence in you, and I lack nothing of value.
This here is my view to and from work everyday. See I work next to the Cape Town harbour and having grown up in Nairobi am amazed by the sea, sea life and everything that has to do with the sea and shipping. This gigantic cranes load and offload containers on a daily basis in and out of Cape Town … An sure alot of engineering work went into this …
“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone—
“Who shut up the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb,
when I made the clouds its garment
and wrapped it in thick darkness,
when I fixed limits for it
and set its doors and bars in place,
when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;
here is where your proud waves halt’?
“Have you ever given orders to the morning,
or shown the dawn its place,
that it might take the earth by the edges …
Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?
Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
Camps Bay & 12 Apostles
Cape Town
Table Mountain,
Cape Town
This little red car park outside our gate … the background wasn’t so great and so I decided to give it … well no background
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