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Western Cape beachgoers converged at Muizenberg beach on Saturday, flouting Covid-19 regulations while demanding beaches be opened. Organisers claim between 400 and 500 protesters were at the beach; they were ordered to vacate by police. The City of Cape Town says it is  compelled by law to ensure the regulations are adhered to. Western Cape beachgoers have vowed to continue to violate Alert Level 3 lockdown regulations by occupying beaches across the province. On Saturday, scores of residents descended on Muizenberg beach to stage a protest, under the watch of law enforcement officers. They...

Deur Richard Roberts @Richardjohn_Rj 16 Desember 2020 07:22 Apart from The Alchemist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah is another favourite on the continent. (Alexander Spatari/ Getty Images) A well-known community project, the Booksie and Bookley free book exchange in Bothasig, was recently forced to stop operating following a complaint lodged against the initiative. The complaint was lodged at the City of Cape Town. The book exchange project which ran from two unused electrical boxes, was the brainchild of author and writer Denise Ridd...

Covered in sandy, nutrient-starved soils, scorched by fire, and pummelled by the prevailing gale-force southeaster in summer, the Cape Floral Kingdom has persisted as a land of extreme paradoxes for millenniums. Given the harsh conditions that assail life here, this world seems to have every reason not to be a botanical number cruncher’s wet dream: the untrained eye may hardly conceive that it gives refuge to nearly 20% of Africa’s flora on less than 0.5% of the continent’s surface. It seems implausible that some 9 000 plant species should thrive in these coastal extremities, 70% of whi...