The closing date for in-store entries for Cape Town‘s biggest community run has been extended until the 24th April. The Slave Route Challenge 2016 will take over the Mother City on Sunday 8 May 2016, and will see thousands of runners tackle some gruelling hills as they navigate their way[…]
A group of pensioners have vowed to continue their protest action after their demands for employment benefits were dismissed. Protesters have been staging a sleep-in along the pavement at Parliament this week for the payment of benefits from their former employer from the Ciskei and SA Transport Services. Currently demonstrators[…]
A number of contenders to be the next leader of the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) will go head to head at the organisation’s annual general meeting on Saturday. As the current president, Moulana Ihsaan Hendricks’ second term draws to a close, the MJC will vote for a new president, a[…]
The call to have suspended South Peninsula principle, Brian Isaacs, reinstated was intensified earlier this week as supporters of the campaign took to the street of the CBD and marched to the Legislature to handover a memorandum. Isaacs was suspended earlier this year on charges of misconduct. Director of Communication[…]
Cape Town’s most famous son Taliep Petersen, the widely acclaimed performer was honoured with a posthumous “Lifetime Achievement” award at the recent Naledi Awards, which is a premier award on the calendar of Gauteng awards. The award comes ten years after Petersen’s untimely death, which has left a void in[…]
The first Starbucks opened this morning in Johannesburg, with people having waited overnight to be the very first customers. The US-based global brand plans to open 12 to 15 more stores in South Africa over the next two years, with a long term plan of up to 150 outlets. Starbucks[…]
Earlier this week Cape Town Mayor, Patricia de Lille, unveiled the first 30 houses of the Heideveld Housing Development. While this is positive news, beneficiaries have raised concerns that the City of Cape have been transparent in the process of construction and have ignored the issues that were voiced by[…]
As gang violence rips through the Cape Flats, gang related activity within the so-called ‘townships’ appears to be unnoticed. Tuesday night’s killing spree in Nyanga, which resulted in the death of four individuals and injured three, awakened Cape Flats communities to the realities of life within the townships of the[…]
Law enforcement officers continue to monitor Dunoon as Somali shopkeepers face a barrage of attacks. The attacks, which appeared to be directed toward foreign shopkeepers, resulted in numerous foreigners evacuating the area this week. Member of the Somali Community Forum, Abdullah Ali, explained that the situation in the area has[…]
Local activists have written an open letter to food producers and the minister of trade, finance, and industry, Rob Davies, with regards to spiralling food price inflation. While companies attest the sharp rate of inflation to the drought currently experienced, the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign claims that the inflation[…]
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