I’m currently doing a Tour Guiding course, and am learning so much more about our City, both in theory teaching as well as practical tours of our city and outlying areas. Yesterday we did a tour of the city centre, and I learnt a lot more about the eminent Capetonians who are honored with statues in the city centre. Continue reading →
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Portuguese slave shipwreck found off Camps Bay!
It sounded like an April Fool’s Day story, but it appears to be true. Just as I was departing on holiday, the news broke that a Portuguese slave ship has been found off the coast of Camp Bay, which sank more than 200 years ago. The New York Times was the first to break the story!
In 1794 the São José-Paquete de Africa ship left Mocambique for Brazil Continue reading →
Marketing Cape Town and Western Cape: get out of ‘silos’, urges Andrew Boraine!
Western Cape Economic Development Partnership (EDP) CEO Andrew Boraine addressed The Institute for Public Relations & Communication Management Western Cape at its AGM at the Bantry Bay Hotel last night, talking about communication and its impact on the economic development of Cape Town and the Western Cape.
Boraine shed light on an interesting topic before load shedding hit the Atlantic Continue reading →
Cape of Storms could get stormier
The extreme heat in Cape Town and the Western Cape in the past week will have made one aware that climate change can affect our region too. Record-high temperatures, touching 40C in Cape Town and 48C in Franschhoek, have affected every citizen.
The City of Cape Town’s head of environmental policy, Gregg Oelofse, has warned Capetonians that climate change will make itself felt locally, as the average temperature increase is estimated at 2-3C, “placing our coastal vulnerability as a very real concern that holds multiple implications for our city. The risks associated with sea-level rise events can no longer be viewed as something to be addressed into the future, but must be considered as a priority in our immediate planning and management”, reports The Times.
The City’s report identifies Blouberg, Camps Bay, Kommetjie, Glencairn and the Strand to be “highly vulnerable” to a rise in sea level due to climate change.
Oelofse predicts that the Western Cape is destined to become drier, and that rain is less likely to be over a longer period of time and gentle, but shorter and more intense storms will bring the rain. “The bigger the storm, the higher the wind velocity, and the higher the ocean swell that the wind pushes up against the coastline”.
The City is evaluating what it needs to do to protect the identified coastal areas against the rising sea levels. It manages 307 km of coastline.
Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com