Frischknecht had met Adrien more than a half decade ago at the Cape Epic bike race, in South Africa.

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Race Point Light on Cape Cod, Massachusetts doesn't have electricity-just gas lanterns-and the generator runs for barely two hours a day.

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Crime in the Cape Flats, a Coloured (mixed-race) slum, has exploded in the past few years.

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He quit the race, abandoning his waiting wife, and carried on to the Cape of Good Hope for a second time.

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It is also the worst bombing spree, outside of Cape Town, since one by white right wingers ahead of the first all-race elections in 1994.

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