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Cape Town tremors: You can help locate the epicentre | News24

The Council for GeoSciences says that the two tremors that occurred in Cape Town is nothing new and it is a good thing that people are becoming aware of these tremors.

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Roger W. Ferguson

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Cleaver, Emanuel (1944- )

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Rice, Constance Williams (1945- )

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South End Physician

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J.M. Coetzee , in full John Maxwell Coetzee (born February 9, 1940, Cape Town, South Africa), South African novelist, critic, and translator noted for his novels about the effects of colonization. In 2003 he won the Nobel Prize for

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