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PistoriusBalls 5

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Friday! Maybe they’ll be knocking off a bit earlier today. Hardly worth turning up in that case.
But thankfully, everyone has turned up anyway. Let’s get the latest from our intrepid team.

Maybe he’s reading your stuff, Lucy. Is he an Android man? No. No, he’s not.

 

Eww.
Meanwhile, “murder accused appears unhappy” shocker:

Perhaps he should have had some tissues to hand. White ones.

 


Is this what we’re paying State attorneys to do? To sparkle?

Meanwhile, whimsical tweets are sometimes not enough. Rebecca Davis has taken things one thing further with a whimsical out-of-office message too:

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But back to the courtroom journo love-in:

Beautiful.

PistoriusBalls 4

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Day three and four of the trial and all it’s getting a bit dull, what with all this evidence and cross-examining and stuff. Fortunately, there are still some other things going on though:

Smashing shoes:

 

Winner: No Shit, Sherlock Award 2014

 

It’s all too much for some:

 


Brave move with his brother in the place.


MOAR WHIMSY!!!!

Cape Town Load-Shedding Schedules 2014

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*** THIS IS NOW UPDATED FOR 2015 – CLICK HERE ***

Load-shedding is back and it is already happening in Cape Town:

This is the first time the City has experienced Level 3 shedding, and according to Eskom, it’s likely that load-shedding – due to ongoing supply problems and exacerbated by the bad weather up north – will continue through into the weekend.

If you’re in Cape Town, here is the City page with the load-shedding schedules.

*NOTE that this is the schedule for Stage 2 load shedding. i.e. it will be this, PLUS SOME MORE. The City does not appear to have a Stage 3 schedule available at the moment.

Yes, I know it reads 2013, but it’s apparently still in force.

Meanwhile: if you are elsewhere and supplied (or not supplied, I suppose) directly by Eskom, you will need to visit THIS PAGE.

UPDATE: CAPE TOWN STAGE THREE LOAD SHEDDING SCHEDULES NOW AVAILABLE:

The City has given us this update, although at the time of posting, their website is down – no electricity or too much… er… load?

The City of Cape Town was informed this morning by the National Eskom Control Centre that they are initiating and have already started implementing Stage 3 load shedding. Stage 3 is the highest level of load shedding possible.

Click here for a list of the main stations, and for a list of suburbs and times that are scheduled for load shedding, click here. The City will keep residents and business informed of any updates.

If those links above aren’t working, I have saved those Main Stations and Suburbs and Times sheets on here too.

PistoriusBalls 3

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The fascinating updates keep coming:


And ahead of this next one, a reminder that we’ve had 2 days – two days – of the trial so far, amounting to about 8 hours of courtroom time.

 

Well done.

Man waves arms:

See? Like I said: whimsical.

PistoriusBalls 2

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I’m not saying or promising that this is going to be a daily feature, but the journalists at Oscar Pistorius’ murder trial continue to amaze us with their insight and their desperation to “set the scene”, by tweeting the mundane, the more mundane and the really mundane. (Although, SA is gradually getting the idea that courtroom drama, simply isn’t dramatic.)
 

It’s not the cough that carries you off; it’s the coffin they carry you off in.

Disclaimer: Looking at her timeline, it could be that Daily Maverick reporter Rebecca Davis has been asked to cover the trial in some sort of whimsical way. So, this could be deliberate.

Meanwhile, is it really even worth actually being there?