More than 100 owners of RDP houses in Dunoon face hefty fines or imprisonment for building rooms to rent, without permission from City authorities. The City of Cape Town has sent notices to the owners, warning them they have breached the Municipal Planning By-Law, GroundUp reported. Several property entrepreneurs breached[…]
Ousted Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille says the DA’s decision to kick her out of the party is an admission that it did not have sufficient evidence for her disciplinary hearing. As in most divorces‚ a bruising court battle is looming after De Lille lodged papers in the Cape[…]
Corporate social investment (CSI) has the power to bring about social justice and to end poverty‚ inequality and unemployment. This is according to former public protector Thuli Madonsela‚ who was delivering a keynote address at the eleventh annual Trialogue Business in Society Conference in Johannesburg on Tuesday. “Business is in[…]
The family of a Mitchell’s Plain resident injured in a community protest will take action against the SAPS after public order police allegedly used live rounds and tear gas on Wednesday night. Thousands of Mitchell’s Plain residents had gathered on the corner of Jakes Gerwel and Highlands Drive close to[…]
More than 500,000 people have been displaced in East Africa following heavy seasonal rainfall that has resulted in widespread flooding across large parts of Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia. In Somalia the flooding has displaced 470,000 and damaged or destroyed key infrastructure in Belet Wenye, Hiiran, Hirshabelle, Baidoa, Lower Shabelle and[…]
By Loushe Jordaan As messages making its rounds on social media stating that Siqalo residents will be relocated to New Woodlands cause great concern, Mitchell’s Plain residents will hold a mass meeting at the New Woodlands Civic Centre tonight in a bid to quell tensions between residents and informal dwellers[…]
Nigeria’s military said on Monday it had helped to rescue more than 1,000 people held by Islamist militant group Boko Haram in the northeast of the country. It said the hostages consisted mainly of women and children, as well as some young men who had forced to fight for the[…]
An Israeli soldier convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead an injured Palestinian was freed from prison on Tuesday, the army said, after spending nine months behind bars. Elor Azaria was initially sentenced to 18 months in prison for the killing of Abdul Fatah al-Sharif in the occupied West Bank city[…]
African National Congress (ANC) MP and former Deputy Minister of Higher Education Mduduzi Manana says he’s instructed his lawyer to file extortion charges against the family of his former domestic worker, Catherine Wiro. This follows reports that Wiro was offered R100 000 to withdraw an assault case against Manana. Wiro[…]
The parliamentary joint committee on constitutional review has so far received 140 000 written submissions about possible changes to land ownership rights and will request the National Assembly extend the deadline to report back by August 30, according to co-chairperson Vincent Smith. The written submissions and request for oral submissions[…]
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