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South African communities are slow to use twitter in times of emergencies. It may be resistance. It may be age. But age equals resistance for most. But will they wait till a fire jumps on us and destroy our worldly goods before we adopt twitter as an emergency communications tool?

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Imagine………… A vagrant started a fire near Simon’s Town, the village had no systematic way to alert those in harm’s way. In the days that followed, organizations nationwide began asking, "Does my community have the ability, in a few minutes, in the event of a crisis, to notify everyone involved?" [This scenario is only imaginary [...]

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R100 000 Reward For Info on Fire


The fires are getting out of control. Every week new fires are threatening our peninsula. There are arsonists causing these fires. We cannot sit back and wait until the fire is at our doorstep. So we drive the roads up and down at any time of the day and night to see if there are [...]

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