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Gavin Thomson
Born on January 9th, 1968, and raised in Cape Town, Gavin matriculated at Rondebosch in the eighties. During the nineties he worked in London for studios such as Disney and…>
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Deforesting Cecelia
CECILIA, YOU'RE BREAKING MY HEART: Gavin Thomson suspects that there is a profit motive in the deforestation of the scenic Cecilia Forest. The work has been authorised by the forest's Table Mountain National Park caretakers to rid it of alien growth. But it has left the once beautiful and very popular picnic spot barren.
[A 2009 Update: Indigenous fynbos has since reclaimed the area and it is now looking splendid in its natural livery]
