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Steve Kretzmann

Diesel on down the road

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A diesel is dirty, smelly, powerful, and leaks oil when it puts a few hundered k’s on the clock. But the thing is they do put a few hundred k’s on the clock, and just keep clocking on.

While there’s undeniably a thrill to the acceleration and speed of the petrol racehorses that can weave in and out of traffic, a journey in an old diesel allows you to check out our incredible landscape, take a sho’t left off the beaten track, and get into the flow of the road.… Read more

New policy for street people

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The City is developing a new strategy to reduce homelessness, and help people living on the street, but lack of data is a drawback

In its new policy on homelessness currently being developed, the City of Cape Town acknowledges a lack of accurate data on the number of homeless people in the city.… Read more

Strandfontein development could push butterfly into extinction

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The only colony of one of the world’s most endangered butterflies is within sight of an ambitious new urban coastal node

A large, multi-storey development proposed at Strandfontein could put one of the rarest butterflies in the world at even greater risk of extinction, and decrease endangered biodiversity for which Cape Town is famous.… Read more

Foot’s Othello reroutes the question of barbarity

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Othello is in essence a soap opera. It lacks the regicide, fratricide, witchery, and mysticism of many of his other works. What we do have, though, is uxoricide, horrifyingly common in South Africa. The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice,is also arguably racist in its stereotype of the black man easily manipulated by the Machivellian European, Iago, although there are counter-arguments.… Read more

December gig guide

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Summer is here. Work is a drag, drag, drag but the holiday – that most bourgeois concept – beckons. Whatever! Life is about to get lekka, and we’re spoilt for choice when it comes to jols. Be wys.

Music festivals

If you are desperate to get out of the city this weekend (2 and 3 December) we strongly suggest the Shifty Oppie Weskus Koppie music festival.… Read more

Bays of sewage: Public hearings begin

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Environment minister criticises City’s previous lack of engagement

After it was ordered to do so by the environment minister, the City of Cape Town has now started public hearings on three marine outfalls it operates. These pump about 28 million litres of sewage out to sea every day, according to reports commissioned by the City.… Read more

Gig guide: Into october

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So ja, the weather came and klapped us. This is what happens, and it’s gonna happen again, and more often, because we’ve taken most of the carbon the planet spent aeons accumulating and storing underground and then just released it back into the atmosphere in the eye blink that is 200 years.
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​Everyone dies: No gauche debutante

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​Not thinking about death – our own and that of the people we love – is probably a mechanism of the mind that prevents us from being paralysed by its inevitability. Although, paradoxically, death can provide the impetus to enjoy life while we have it, and to find the kind of perspective that allows us to gracefully deal with the daily frustrations and irritations that accompany a beating heart.… Read more