Five men have been arrested for allegedly holding Cape Town paramedics at gunpoint in the early hours of Monday morning and making off with their belongings, Western Cape police said. The paramedics were assisting a heart attack patient in Heideveld around 00:30 when they were accosted by six people, said[…]
The IHATA Shelter for Abused Women and Children is facing major financial difficulties as their operational funding from an international donor will be cut. The shelter serves the community with various programmes that uplift abused women and children. The global funding climate for Non-Governmental Organisations who work with softer skills[…]
Earlier this week Cape Town Mayor, Patricia de Lille, unveiled the first 30 houses of the Heideveld Housing Development. While this is positive news, beneficiaries have raised concerns that the City of Cape have been transparent in the process of construction and have ignored the issues that were voiced by[…]
Cape Town executive mayor Patricia de Lille on Tuesday handed over 30 houses in Heideveld as part of a R105 million Heideveld housing development project. The project consists of 738 housing opportunities for people living in overcrowded conditions. Mr Solomons of WestBank applied for a housing subsidy 38 years ago[…]
Numerous residents of the Heideveld area, who qualified for housing, are set to occupy completed units this April. While the project alleviates the problem of housing in the Province, residents from the Heideveld community are questioning the transparency of the housing process, as well as the quality of the constructed[…]
A 76 year old woman has been left displaced after a fire left her Heideveld home in ruins. Janap Mathews had been visiting her neighbour when she was alerted to a haze of smoke coming from her house on Thursday morning. “Aunt Jane just told her, Janap look your house[…]
Police are searching for the mother of a newborn baby boy after its tiny body was found in a plastic bag in Heideveld, in Cape Town. Police spokesperson Lieutenant Ian Bennett said pedestrians came across the dead infant on Saturday afternoon next to the Heideveld High School fence on Duinefontein[…]
While trying to spread some warmth and cheer among the sick, it was the patients who ended up giving words of comfort to the Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu, daughter of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, at Groote Schuur Hospital on Friday morning. “Please tell your daddy Aunty Sadia from Heideveld is[…]
Manenberg residents say they have little knowledge about the future of the GF Jooste Hospital but call on the City of Cape Town to stick to their initial plan of renovating the structure to provide better medical care to the community. This follows an outcry from Manenberg CPF’s Pastor Lewellyn[…]
Residents in Heideveld, Cape Town, are concerned by the rise in alleged mob justice killings, after two bodies were found at a train station in the suburb on Monday. Two unidentified men were killed on Monday morning and their burnt bodies left near the Heideveld train station, News24 reported. The[…]
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