An Uber taxi driver who witnessed the shooting at the BP garage just outside the Cape Town International Airport on Wednesday told News24 he was standing outside his car at the garage when a Toyota Tazz pulled up behind a cigarette delivery vehicle. “They pointed guns at the delivery men[…]
The sentencing of nine men found guilty of contravening the Civil Aviation Act after dumping faeces at Cape Town International Airport is expected to be handed down at the Bellville Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. The group were found guilty in February. The men, including Ses’khona People’s Rights Movement leaders Andile[…]
More than 200 hujaaj left the shores of Cape Town over the past weekend during the first phase of departures for the annual Hajj pilgrimage, with a further 100 departing during the early hours of Monday morning. Capetonians will this year fill around 800 of the 2000 person quota afforded[…]
With Capetonians expected to flood Cape Town International Airport as the haj departures begin, hujaaj and their families are urged to obey airport regulations. The call comes as the haj season gets underway, with the first batch of Cape hujjaj set to depart on Friday. About 800 pilgrims will use[…]
A car bomb exploded near the entrance to Kabul airport on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding 16, days after a series of suicide attacks in the Afghan capital killed dozens of civilians and wounded hundreds more. The wave of bombings in Kabul and provincial centers follows a[…]
The N2 incoming near Cape Town International Airport is open to traffic after burning debris and rubble were cleared, Western Cape police confirmed on Friday afternoon. Earlier, traffic officials had diverted traffic because of the obstruction. Spokesperson Colonel Tembinkosi Kinana said the traffic was free flowing and officials on the[…]
The Blikkiesdorp community are incensed that they were not included in consultations around the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the Airport Expansion Project. Speaking to VOC News, the Blikkiedorp Joint Committee’s Jerome Daniels says the residents will now be taking their concerns to the City of Cape Town. “We have submitted our grievances[…]
A move by the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) to realign a runway at the Cape Town International Airport has raised the ire of Blikkiesdorp residents, who could face potential relocation as a result. With ACSA having authorised a company called SRK Consulting to conduct an independent ‘environmental risk[…]
Nine “poo protesters” were expected to return to the Bellville Regional Court on Thursday for the continuation of their sentencing procedures. The nine are to be sentenced for violating the Civil Aviation Act after emptying containers containing human waste in the Cape Town International Airport’s departure hall on June 25,[…]
Syria accused Israel of bombing its main international airport on Sunday as the UN announced talks with rebel leaders on a ceasefire in its war-battered second city of Aleppo. The accusation came hours ahead of an appeal by humanitarian organisations Monday for countries to take in around 180,000 refugees as the[…]
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