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Post by Soutpeel on Jan 27, 2018 17:22:08 GMT 7
Have the people who live in Capetown all put flame throwers round the outside of their swimming pools? The flame throwers were banned by the Rozzers in the mid 90's, and super gluing fish hooks to the under side of your car radio/Cassette player was frowned upon, as was leaving a whiskey bottle on your kitchen counter witth half whiskey half weed killer in it...
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Post by rubl on Jan 27, 2018 18:25:51 GMT 7
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Post by siampolee on Jan 30, 2018 17:54:07 GMT 7
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Post by Soutpeel on Jan 31, 2018 7:01:12 GMT 7
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Post by rubl on Jan 31, 2018 8:55:18 GMT 7
I know little of Cape Town area (or S.A. for what it matters), but the article seems about 'white' S.A-ers. Might be the neighbourhood. I assume in more 'African' suburbs the situation is identical? When water gets real scares there may indeed be rising violence. Worse would be if the government would start looking for scapegoats and I'm afraid they have no problems in pointing (away from themselves).
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Post by Soutpeel on Jan 31, 2018 11:32:07 GMT 7
I know little of Cape Town area (or S.A. for what it matters), but the article seems about 'white' S.A-ers. Might be the neighbourhood. I assume in more 'African' suburbs the situation is identical? When water gets real scares there may indeed be rising violence. Worse would be if the government would start looking for scapegoats and I'm afraid they have no problems in pointing (away from themselves). Situation in the more "African" suburbs if the is such a thing in Cape Town, the suburb thing in Cape Town is vastly different to the rest of the country as it never had large scale mining which required vast numbers of black labour, ie Joburg...which spawned Soweto..etc upto the 1970's or so, Cape Town natives could live pretty much were they wanted...but the divide was along economic lines, therefore you had : Bo-kaap...Center of Cape Town = predominately muslim, AKA "Cape Coloured" descendants of the "indonesians,malaysians" the VOC brought over from "Batavia" District 6 - as above again just about City Center Woodstock - suburb of the city which housed more wealthy "Cape Coloureds" and poorer whites In the 1970s the National Party hoofed out all the residents of district 6 and moved them to the Cape Flats, and built a new Univerisity in district 6.. The rest of Cape Town outside the city center were "white suburbs" of varying wealth with the very rich living in the likes of Clifton, Constantia or Bishops court The only real "black township" to speak of was/is Langa..but very small in comparison with the likes of Soweto Mitchells Plain mentionedis in the Cape Flats Upto the 1970s Tableview never existed became a predominately white middle class suburb on the West coast in the 1980's/90,s... This is a very simplistic explanation of the suburbs in Cape Town..but these days pretty much based on how much money you have dictates where you live
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Post by AyG on Jan 31, 2018 12:07:10 GMT 7
"Will Cape Town be the first city to run out of water?"
No. There have been others before such as Fatehpur Sikri in India, Tikal in Guatemala, and Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka. Pretty sure there have been some in the rest of the African continent.
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Post by Soutpeel on Jan 31, 2018 13:48:35 GMT 7
"Will Cape Town be the first city to run out of water?" No. There have been others before such as Fatehpur Sikri in India, Tikal in Guatemala, and Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka. Pretty sure there have been some in the rest of the African continent. The actual article states "major city" "But it could also become famous for being the first major city in the world to run out of water" Cape Town population - 4.5 million or there abouts Fatehpur Sikr - estimates at 3.0 million Tikal - about 200k Anuradhapura about 1 million
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Post by smokie36 on Feb 1, 2018 16:54:50 GMT 7
Scotland is willing to take in 15 refugee rugby players.
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Post by Soutpeel on Feb 1, 2018 17:20:20 GMT 7
Scotland is willing to take in 15 refugee rugby players. Not the way the Springboks are playing these days you dont
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Post by rubl on Feb 1, 2018 17:52:05 GMT 7
Scotland is willing to take in 15 refugee rugby players. Not the way the Springboks are playing these days you dont Depends on how the Scots are currently playing themselves. Saturday against Wales I think.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2018 8:26:51 GMT 7
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Post by Soutpeel on Feb 12, 2018 9:12:13 GMT 7
8mm mate, too little too late....
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2018 9:33:22 GMT 7
Whatever happened to the good old rain dance?
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Post by smokie36 on Feb 14, 2018 15:12:43 GMT 7
Whatever happened to the good old rain dance? More sensationalist journalism. I haven't heard a peep out of Geldof or the Dublin Dwarf.
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