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Social media intern
If you are addicted to social media, know how to create interesting posts and keep up with the most trending topics, then you can put that energy and skill to good use in our newsroom. The Voice of the Cape is seeking a social media assistant, who is full of[…]
Radio sports reporter
Are you a sports fundi? Are you an armchair sports commentator? Do you follow your favourite teams every move on social media? And do you support community sports events? If you answered yes, you could be our next sports reporter. VOC is looking for a radio trainee who can be[…]
Journalist/Content Producer
Job description The Voice of the Cape radio station is in search of a journalist and content producer to add to its team. If you love the fast pace of radio news, then you could survive in our newsroom. A journalism or media qualification is essential. Previous media or journalism[…]
Hosni Mubarak walks free after six years in jail
Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak left a military hospital on Friday where he had spent much of his six-year detention, his lawyer said. Mubarak had been cleared for release earlier this month after a top court finally acquitted him of involvement in protester deaths during the 2011 revolt that ousted[…]
Zuma considers designating 3 new JSC members
President Jacob Zuma is considering designating three new members of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), the Presidency said on Friday. The Constitution allows for the president to designate four members of the JSC after consulting with party leaders represented in the National Assembly, his spokesperson Bongani Ngqulunga said. He had[…]
Hundreds feared dead in the Mediterranean Sea
About 250 people are feared drowned in the Mediterranean after two partially submerged rubber dinghies were found off the coast of Libya. Laura Lanuza, a spokeswoman for the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms, said its boat, Golfo Azzuro, recovered five floating bodies on Thursday close to the dinghies, about 30km[…]
Taxi alliance concerned owners could be punished for bad drivers
The National Taxi Alliance (NTA) is concerned that a new amendment bill currently before Parliament could penalise taxi owners for the behaviour of individual drivers. The portfolio committee on transport heard on Thursday that the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Amendment Bill doesn’t differentiate explicitly between owners and drivers[…]
Paragliders crash into Lions Head
A German tourist and a South African man crashed into Lions Head while tandem paragliding in Cape Town on Thursday afternoon, Wilderness Search and Rescue said. They were both airlifted to the sports field of a nearby school and taken to a local hospital from there, spokesperson Johann Marais said.[…]
Police on high alert amid Delft taxi tensions
Western Cape police and the City of Cape Town have urged residents to refrain from making comments or posting pictures which are alarming on social media platforms. This follows the circulation of old images of burning buses to create the impression that taxi violence in Delft and Nyanga had escalated.[…]