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Table Bay clean-up operations almost complete

According to TimesLIVE, Cape Town's disaster response teams resumed clean-up operations along the Table Bay coastline after oil spilt from an abandoned bulk carrier that ran aground almost three years ago. Bad weather scuppered their work late last week.

"Strong winds, sand [and] big swells" broke the bulk carrier into three, said Wilfred Solomons-Johannes of the city's Disaster Risk Management Centre, adding that by Monday afternoon "much of the oil spotted over the weekend had been cleared".

Fifteen oiled penguins have been captured and are being cleaned and treated by the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds, TimesLIVE reports.

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