If you have ever ridden the cable car to the top of Table Mountain, you will know that the one thing that goes through your mind is whether or not you are going to be riding the cable car back to the bottom of Table Mountain.
After all, anything can happen: the cable can snap, the floor can give way under the weight of German tourists, or the roof can give in when Leon Schuster leaps aboard while filming a scene from “Mama Jack”.
However, at least you can rest assured that you won’t be left dangling in mid-air, hundreds of metres above the ground, in strong south-easterly winds, when the cable car comes to a grinding halt as a result of a sudden power…oh.
Still, it could have been worse. At least the cable car wasn’t hijacked when it ran out of power.
