The Dominican School for the Deaf describes the recognition of sign language as a subject, as a major victory for the hearing-impaired community. According to the 2001 StatsSA, approximately 20 percent of all disabled people in South Africa suffer from hearing loss, leaving the minority to adapt to issues surrounding[…]
Police have launched a search for two suspects who allegedly hijacked a 42-year-old driver for an e-hailing app in Grassy Park at the weekend. The driver had allegedly picked up a passenger from Plumstead, as well as the passenger’s friend in Zeekoevlei on Saturday night. The driver was then directed[…]
A 24-year-old Eastern Cape man appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Monday after allegedly raping his mother in her Nyanga home. The man has denied the accusation and has counter claimed that his mother is falsely accusing him after he threatened to expose her drinking and “bad deeds.” State[…]
The search continues for a nine-year-old girl who was last seen almost a month ago. A team of forensic experts are heading out to Delft today to do a sweep of the home of little Linathi Titshala who has been missing since Friday, 14 December. Titshala left her grandmother’s home[…]
Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of a police officer in Gugulethu. The constable was off-duty when he was shot and killed during an alleged robbery at a shop in the Barcelona informal settlement on Sunday night. Police spokesperson Colonel Andre Traut said the officer was[…]
The National Energy Regulator of SA (NERSA) began a series of nationwide public hearings on what South Africans will be paying for electricity on Monday. Eskom is requesting an additional 15% tariff increase for the next three financial years, amounting to a 45% price hike for consumers. NERSA is mandated[…]
The case against the man accused of starting a fire in the Overstrand which has destroyed thousands of hectares of vegetation, has been postponed to later this month for a formal bail application. Shelton April made his second appearance in the Caledon Magistrates Court on Monday morning. The 34-year-old is[…]
Mayoral Committee Member for Transport Felicity Purchase said minibus taxis serving local destinations will operate from the Grand Parade opposite the Cape Town City Hall in Darling Street as from Wednesday until further notice. “The station deck taxi rank dates back to 1996 when the roofscape of the Cape Town[…]
Overnight rain has brought some relief to firefighters battling the blaze in the Overberg area in the Western Cape. An immediate evacuation order was issued for the Franskraal area on Friday, after three fires flared up once again. The fire reportedly jumped across the road and spread towards Mooiuitsig. The[…]
Western Cape police have arrested two suspects in connection with the murder and house robbery of an elderly Ottery couple. Rugaya and Riedwaan Addinall, both 82 years old, were strangled to death and their bodies were found by their son on Sunday after they did not answer their phone. The[…]
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