Police are still in the dark about started the fire which devastated the homes of over 1 000 people and left one man dead in a section of Hout Bay’s Imzamo Yethu on Boxing Day. The fire broke out late on the evening of December 26 and strong winds quickly[…]
One person was seriously injured in a paragliding accident in Green Point, Cape Town, on Monday. City of Cape Town fire and rescue services spokesperson, Theo Layne, said the paraglider crashed in Beach Road, Green Point, on Monday afternoon. She was assisted by paramedics and fire rescue services. She was[…]
AbaThembu royal household representatives met in the Eastern Cape on Monday to discuss the incarceration of their king, Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo. Royal family spokesperson Daludumo Mtirara said the meeting had started with formalities and would move on to dealing with the issue of the king being sent to jail. The matter[…]
Motorists should expect long delays on the road this week due to the end-of-holiday traffic rush, the Road Traffic Management Corporation said on Monday. More than 1 000 vehicles an hour were passing points along the country’s major roads, including the N3 and N1, spokesperson Simon Zwane said. Over 1[…]
The class of 2015 has one more sleep until the Department of Basic Education starts releasing matric results eight of the nine provinces from midnight on Tuesday. Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga will first announce the national pass rate on television at 18:00 on Tuesday January 5 for pupils who[…]
A social media storm is brewing after a KwaZulu-Natal south coast estate agent called New Year’s Day beachgoers “monkeys”. Penny Sparrow had made the inflammatory post on Facebook, which prompted a mass reaction on social networking sites. In her post she wrote: “These monkeys that are allowed to be released[…]
Equal Education on Sunday asked South Africans to spare a thought for those students who had dropped out of schooling before they could even reach matric. “If half or nearly half of all learners never take matric, this is a major problem in itself,” said the civil rights organisation in[…]
A moving ceremony was held at Cape Town’s Castle of Good Hope on Saturday to mark 350 years since the first cornerstone of the once-feared structure was laid in 1666. “It went very well,” said Castle Control Board CEO Calvyn Gilfellan of the imposing five cornered building established to fend[…]
Cape Town’s minstrels probably woke up to glitter encrusted pillows on Sunday after thousands had walked through the city belting out old tunes and showing off their shimmering dancing suits for Tweede Nuwe Jaar. From tiny tots swaddled and sleeping their mother’s arms, to grandpas in wheelchairs – they all[…]
Five people, including a teenager, have died and three have gone missing in several drowning incidents on New Year’s Day. A 17-year-old Grahamstown male drowned in Port Alfred, while an elderly man was declared dead in the Bay Hall Area, Richards Bay Port, the National Sea Rescue Institute said in[…]
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