Cape Town sur Twitter : "You Cannot Kill Ideas - South African cartoonist @Zapiro | original: #PressFreedom #UnityMarch. 150111st - Extremists Can't Kill Charlie Hebdo's Ideas. Published in Sunday Times on 11 Jan 2015 150111st - Extremists Can't Kill Charlie Hebdo's Ideas Description & Background Masked men armed with rifles stormed the headquarters of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in the heart of Paris and killed 12 people. The dead included four political cartoonists, editor in chief Stéphane “Charb” Charbonnier and two police officers. Charbonnier received numerous death threats from Islamic extremists. The attack appears to have been in response to the magazine’s frequent publication of cartoons mocking the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
People in the cartoon Tags Je Suis Charlie / Charlie Hebdo / Extremists / Freedom of expression / France / Paris / Protest Text in the cartoon Links Related Zapiro cartoons Related cartoons from other cartoonists. A Goodbye, in Photographs, to Cape Town’s Cooling Towers (Plus: Videos) | BOOK Southern Africa. By Ben - Editor on Aug 23rd, 2010 Many a Capetonian shed a tear on Sunday when our famed Athlone cooling towers were demolished. The towers played the city’s Voortrekker Monument – squat and ugly, yet so permanently there as to make a case for themselves – to its Union Buildings, Table Mountain, and now they are gone.
How, the joke goes, will we ever find Pinelands again? The vanishing of the towers points us, in a sense, to the final vanishing of the city itself: Cape Town’s 20th Century identity, wrought out of a central business district connected to its near townships and District Six, is the stuff of memories now. The city is devolving, devolved: the trilingual Cape Flats, exurbs like Pinelands and Claremont, and the ivy-like spread of the northern suburbs have pulled it thin. There is no “Cape Town”, except in the legal sense: we’re not a town, we’re not a city, we’re only a metro area. Saturday, 21 August 2010 The in-bound approach to the cooling towers on the N2 “Before” and “After” The South African - NEWS FOR GLOBAL SOUTH AFRICANS. News24 Athlone Towers No More. Kalahari.com Cape Town The story told in these pages is both immensely readable and endlessly interesting, and is sure to...
Now R399.00 buy now Cape Town - Cape Town's landmark Athlone cooling towers are no more. The towers, known by many as the Athlone towers, were demolished at 11:56 - four minutes before the scheduled time. The ten-second implosion of the two concrete structures was witnessed by thousands, despite wind and rain. The one tower imploded faster than the other, leaving a cloud of dust and a new landscape to the residents of Cape Town. After the blast major road networks were closed until 13:00, which left many people stuck in traffic after leaving the main viewing area at Pinelands Sports club. M&G Reduced to Rubble. The Daily Maverick :: Mayor's premature detonation catches Cape Town by surprise. Capetonians turned out in their thousands to watch their salt-and-pepper shakers, the old Athlone cooling towers, imploded. Low-hanging mist foiled those who had planned to watch the explosion from the top or higher slopes of Table Mountain, but the two official viewing sites were packed, and crowds of all ages thronged the University of Cape Town campus and nearby bridges and overpasses with good views.
Only to walk away alternating between cursing and praising Cape Town mayor Dan Plato and his early detonation. Watch: Athlone cooling towers demolition from Zoopy: Though scheduled for noon precisely, the implosion actually came a couple of minutes early. Which would probably have universally annoyed everyone in attendance – the photographers still setting up, the mothers still distracting their toddlers, those focussed on their portable radios or sending SMSes to their friends.
By Phillip de Wet Photos: The Daily Maverick. Sa news D-day for cooling towers. More than 400 disaster management and law enforcement officers were on standby for the demolition of the Athlone cooling towers at noon on Sunday. For safety reasons, no one is allowed within 300 metres of the towers. A slight tremor is expected when about 21 600 tons of concrete will fall to the ground Disaster management's Wilfred Solomans Johannes said, "The air restriction is for two nautical miles and that?
S four kilometres. That's the circumference around the towers and no aircraft will be allowed near the towers. " Four thousand people are expected to flock to the Pinelands Soccer Grounds which city officials have opened as a public viewing area. The city? Zoopy will also be covering the event, as it happens via live streaming. Eyewitness New. Zapiro The Two Towers.