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  2. Cape Town water crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Cape Town water crisis in South Africa was a multi-year period in 2015–2020 of water shortage in the Western Cape region, most notably affecting the City of Cape Town. Dam water levels began decreasing in 2015 and the Cape Town water crisis peaked during mid-2017 to mid-2018 when water levels hovered between 14 and 29 percent of total dam ...

  3. Cape Town - Wikipedia

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    GMP per capita (2011) US$19,656 [8] Website. capetown.gov.za. Cape Town [a] is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. [11] It is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [12]

  4. Over 500 baby sea turtles washed ashore in a big storm off ...

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    GERALD IMRAY. May 1, 2024 at 1:21 AM. CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — An aquarium in South Africa is stretched beyond capacity after more than 500 baby sea turtles were washed up on beaches by a ...

  5. 2021 Cape Town taxi conflict - Wikipedia

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    The pink and blue CODETA logo is visible on the back of the vehicle to the left of the number plate. The 2021 Cape Town taxi conflict was a violent turf war between the minibus taxi operators Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association (CATA) and Congress of Democratic Taxi Association (CODETA) over lucrative taxi routes in Cape Town, South Africa.

  6. A ship carrying 19,000 cattle caused a big stink in the South ...

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    Authorities in Cape Town launched an investigation Monday after a foul stench swept over the South African city. City officials inspected sewage facilities for leaks and an environmental health ...

  7. 2021 Table Mountain fire - Wikipedia

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    The 2021 Table Mountain fire (also known as the Rhodes Memorial fire [2] or Cape Town fire [3] [4]) is a major fire that started on 18 April 2021 [5] in and around Table Mountain National Park and the neighbourhoods of Newlands, [2] Rosebank, Mowbray and Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa. The damage to sites in the Table Mountain area ...

  8. Murder of Anni Dewani - Wikipedia

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    Shrien Dewani. Anni Ninna Dewani ( née Hindocha; 12 March 1982 – 13 November 2010) was a Swedish woman of Indian origin who was murdered while on her honeymoon in South Africa after the taxi in which she and her husband Shrien Dewani were traveling was hijacked. Three arrests were made in the days following the crime; hijackers Mziwamadoda ...

  9. Cape Times - Wikipedia

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    The Cape Times is an English-language morning newspaper owned by Independent News & Media SA and published in Cape Town, South Africa . As of 2012 the newspaper had a daily readership of 261 000 [2] and a circulation of 34 523. [3] By the fourth quarter of 2014, circulation had declined to 31 930. [4]