Following a fire over two days early this month, the Parliament Buildings have become unusable for the presentation of the President’s State of the Nation Address on 10 February, and the debate which follows.
The ceremonial gilted key which was used for the inauguration of the City Hall 117 years ago was handed to the representative of Parliament, its Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula today.
Friday 21 January 2022 Day 113 of Level 1 😷
Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏
#grateful for a more relaxed day, giving myself some me-time; for a beautiful day, with no wind, at 29C; for starting the day with a Breakfast for the committee of the Camps Bay & Clifton Ratepayers Association at Himitsu at the Camps Bay Retreat; for getting work done; for a lovely slow drive to Hout Bay on this beautiful day, meeting the very gentle Renate there, a Pearl restringer, with 6 bracelets to be done (accumulated over Lockdown to date) and a ring to be fixed, a great discovery Continue reading →
Sunday 9 January 2022, Day 101 of Level 1 😷
Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏
#grateful for a much cooler day at 24C, the rain still not having arrived, and fewer picnickers and hence less litter; for the City of Cape Town trying to catch up on litter cleaning today which they didn’t do overnight as they have done before, even running out of garbage bags, I discovered when I did a ‘litter inspection’ in Camps Bay and Bakoven, getting me close to my goal steps by lunchtime Continue reading →
Sunday 2 January 2022, Day 94 of Level 1 😷
Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏
#grateful for a very relaxed day, trying to catch up on sleep, sadly hard to do as the lift in the apartment building running up and down all day long, mainly the clients of apartment 202 belonging to Magsli Seguillon, I keeping record of 16 up and downs in one hour 😱😱😱; for a walk to Bakoven; for Gift coming to clean today, in Bakoven and at the Tidal Pool this afternoon; for a Community volunteer team of eleven clean up from 19h00, filling 40 garbage bags with litter; and for being happy, healthy and free. 🙏💙 Continue reading →