LOCAL A four-year-old girl who went missing in Paarl in the Western Cape on Sunday was found dead on Monday afternoon. Police spokesperson Capt Frederick van Wyk said the girl was reported missing at the Paarl East police station at 4pm on Sunday. “A search party was arranged and on[…]
LOCAL Three men have been shot and killed in Mbekweni in Paarl. Police spokesperson, Novela Potelwa, says Organised Crime detectives were called to the scene on Saturday. where they found the bodies of the deceased with multiple gunshot wounds in a car and a shack on the same property. The[…]
A hearse transporting a corpse went up in flames in Paarl, Western Cape, on Saturday morning. Both the hearse and the coffin were destroyed but the body inside the coffin did not suffer damage, said Drakenstein municipality spokesperson Riana Geldenhuys. “Drakenstein municipality’s fire services responded to a fire call involving[…]
Jaco Stander, the man accused of physically and verbally assaulting niqaabi, Asheeqah Benjamin was granted R2000 bail in the Paarl magistrate court on Wednesday. Paarl residents and members of the ulema packed the court to support Benjamin. The court heard that Stander has Tourette’s Syndrome and mental health problems. An[…]
A giant of the Paarl Muslim community has passed away – 91year-old Hajji Yusuf Moerat. Having served the Paarl community for more than 70 years, Hajji Yusuf’s most important role was as the life president of Paarl Muslim Jamaah (PMJ) as well as life president of Vineyards Rugby club. He[…]
A recent report by the National Nuclear Regulator has raised concerns regarding possible hotspot areas that could expose residents to radioactive gases and two of them are in the Western Cape. When radium or uranium is broken down into soils, rocks or groundwater, it produces a radioactive gas called “radon”.[…]
By Anees Teladia A crime summit, which many deem to have been productive and successful, took place in Paarl this past weekend. Members of several Community Policing Forums in the Western Cape were in attendance and brought numerous pressing crime-related issues to the table. While various resolutions were made at[…]
A massive fire in the towering Paarl mountains is under control with no evacuations required, the Drakenstein municipality said on Friday. “There was and is no need to evacuate the area or homes,” spokesperson Riana Geldenhuys said. This was after “aggressive” overnight firefighting operations, in spite of strong winds. Two[…]
Three people are in hospital following a fire that broke out at the KWV bottling plant in southern Paarl in the Western Cape on Tuesday morning, the company said. “A KWV employee, a service provider and a municipal firefighter have been admitted to hospital for smoke inhalation and are in[…]
Two people were killed in a collision between a car and a Golden Arrow bus in Cape Town’s northern suburbs on Monday morning, Western Cape traffic chief Kenny Africa said. Africa said the Volkswagen Polo became wedged under the back of the bus, following the crash on Swartklip Road. “The[…]
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