South Africa: Floods And Forewarnings On Western Cape Coast

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Johannesburg — MIND//SHIFT, a high-brow magazine launched by the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business and now published by ITWeb, once printed a Western Cape map showing what the province would look like if global warming caused water levels to rise to the extent that some scientists are predicting.

It showed two reasonably large islands representing the Table Mountain range and Cape Point, the two separated by a narrow straight where the Fish Hoek valley is now, and a couple of smaller isles in the vicinity of the Durbanville hills. The Cape Flats was reduced to a series of sand banks and tidal channels.

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