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Twitch by Robert Fridjhon is a wicked new comedy about birdwatching.

The play revolves around two twitchers — one bull-headed and bullying and the other uptight and obsessive ­­— and their long-suffering wives trapped in a bird hide in the Kruger National Park. Ostensibly they are competing in a birding competition but there are dark undercurrents beneath the civil atmosphere. The cast includes Michael Richard and Louise Saint-Claire.

Cape Town Traffic ©City of Cape Town, Bruce Sutherland

New vehicle technology is constantly being developed spurring innovations from how we power our vehicles to managing infotainment systems inside the cockpit.

General Motors are the first automaker among 40 U.S. corporations to sign a new climate declaration, asserting that responding to climate change is good business campaign. The campaign is organized by the sustainable business advocacy group Ceres and its Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy, or BICEP, coalition.

Fish Farm ©City of Cape Town, Kevin Craig Newman

The South African National Cabinet has approved the National Aquaculture Policy Framework (NAPF).

Acting Cabinet spokesperson Phumla Williams relayed this message on Thursday: “This policy provides a unified framework for the establishment and development of an industry that contributes towards sustainable job creation and increased investment”.  The NAPF was developed against the backdrop of a global aquaculture sector that has seen an increased demand for

Girls playing soccer ©City of Cape Town

Cape Town’s Sport, Recreation and Amenities Department together with Philips, launched a ‘Community Light Centre’ at the City’s YMO St. Lukes Sports Fields in Walmer Estate

A ‘Community Light Centre’ which is an area of around 1 000m2, is lit using the very latest Philips solar powered LED lighting technology.

To celebrate Freedom Day, artists from the bead project Monkeybiz, created a special guest doodle for google.co.za, aiming to capture the spirit of a “united fun day” for all South Africans.

“Due to confidentiality in the US with Google I was unable to send you an email for Freedom Day in South Africa, ” confides Joan Krupp of Monkeybiz.  So there was no prior warning of this exciting design scoop that would be seen on the Google Doodle page on Saturday, 27th April 2013.

The bus strike is over - MyCiTi will resume services from today, Tuesday 14 May.

“We are very excited by the news and eager to get our buses on the road again,” said Councillor Brett Herron, Mayoral Committee member for Transport, Roads and Stormwater, after hearing that the strike had been called off. 

Edith Stephens Wetland Park

Edith Stephens was a botanist  working  at the University of Cape Town who after she retired,  raised money to buy 3.7 hectares of land with a seasonal wetland in Philippi which she gave to Kirstenbosch to look after.

In 2000, the City of Cape Town added the surrounding conservation-worthy land to extend the wetland park and named the park after Ms Stephens. The vegetation type at the Edith Stephens Nature Reserve is a transition from Cape Dune Strandveld to Cape Flats Sand Fynbos, both of which are highly threatened.

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Space tourism could provide a cleaner service with minimal environmental impacts.

The British billionaire Sir Richard Branson said on Monday that the rocket-powered space tourism flights by his firm Virgin Galactic would have a minor impact on climate change. "We have reduced the (carbon emission) cost of somebody going into space from something like two weeks of New York's electricity supply...

Brown haze from urban pollution across Cape Town, South Africa © Adam West

According to a recent study, climate change is likely to have a significant impact globally on plant and animal species.

More than half of common species of plants and a third of animal species are likely to see their living space halved by 2080 on current trends of carbon emissions. Current output of man-made greenhouse gases is putting the planet on track for 4°C of warming by 2100 compared with the pre-industrial 18th century.

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Illegal dumping is a dangerous and costly activity that severely affects residents in all parts of the City and has been identified as a major cause of environmental degradation.

The perpetrators of these unlawful activities, whether individuals or companies, display a flagrant disregard for the law and the impact of their actions on others. Especially children playing amongst waste that has been illegally dumped are often exposed to toxins and dangerous objects that may result in severe injury or even worse.