August2016

VOC festival returns in summer

The Voice of the Cape’s social calendar is never complete without its annual festival and this year, the event returns to the heart of summer. In the official launch on air on Monday night, it was announced the community event will take place from the 1st to the 4th December[…]

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City urges residents to report infrastructure concerns

This weekend Rondebosch East residents were abuzz after a motorist unwittingly became entrenched in a sinkhole. The sinkhole opened up early Saturday afternoon on the corner of Burwood and Gordon Road after a Kia Picanto entered the intersection. While the sinkhole only opened up on Saturday, residents say that a[…]

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#BoycottWoolworths – Why the campaign failed

After two years, organizes of #BoycottWoolworths this week announced the end of the crippled campaign. The campaign began in response to the 2014 Operation Protection Edge in which more than 2100 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed at the hands of Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. The brutality of the[…]

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LOFOB fearful following 4 burglaries in a week

Patrons of the League of Friends of the Blind (LOFOB) in Grassy Park have been left traumatised following a spate of break-ins at the busy centre. This past week alone, LOFOB experienced four break-ins at its Klip road premises. In the most recent incident on Saturday afternoon, suspects stole mobile[…]

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‘Freedom of expression doesn’t extend to war propaganda’

The SABC operated within broadcasting legislation and the Constitution when it decided not to broadcast violent protests, said communications minister Faith Muthambi. Muthambi and a delegation from the SABC appeared before parliament’s portfolio committee on communications on Tuesday where she was giving an account of the state of affairs at[…]

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CEO arrested for wife’s Spier murder

The husband of Susan Rohde, whose body was found in a bathroom of an upmarket Stellenbosch hotel, has reportedly been arrested in connection with her murder. Western Cape police would only confirm to News24 that a 47-year-old man had been arrested in Johannesburg around 06:50 on Tuesday, but the man’s[…]

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‘ANC framed me’ – Fransman

ANC Western Cape leader Marius Fransman has named his own colleagues as conspirators in a plot to oust him – and says he has SMSes to prove it. Fransman, who had been accused of sexually assaulting 21-year-old Louisa Wynand while on a road trip to the ANC’s 104th birthday celebrations[…]

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ANC official in court after DA councillor shot

The ANC branch secretary in Danielskuil and party secretary of the ZF Mgcawu Region, Zonisele Magawu, 29, appeared in the Postmasburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday in connection with the murder of DA councillor Johannes Baaitjies. Baaitjies was shot several times shortly before he was supposed to be sworn in as[…]

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