Tulbagh Earthquake – 40 Years on

Forty years ago my dad woke me up and said I must go outside because there were elephants under my bed. Tsk.  South Africa had just experienced its worst earthquake:   6.3 on the Richter scale.  We were 90km away, and it was felt as far away as Durban (1175km).  Mr Muffin remembers he was watching [...]

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The Flip Side

I went to a rehearsal at 19h30 last night, and traffic cops prevented me from going onto Wynberg Hill, which had been the scene of a horrific accident. I stopped and asked for details, expecting to be shooed away. But the officer was very polite and told me that a truck had overturned, and both [...]

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