The city of Cape Town has created 100,000 jobs since 2011, mayor Patricia de Lille said on Thursday. “Since 2011, the city has created more than 100,000 work opportunities through the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP),” she said in a speech prepared for delivery at a council meeting. There were[…]
Cape Town’s prepaid electricity system will be temporarily off-line next week for maintenance, the city said on Friday. “The City of Cape Town’s electricity prepayment vending system will be switched off for planned maintenance from 22:00 on Wednesday, 17 September 2014 until 05:00 on Thursday, 18 September 2014,” a statement[…]
A taxi driver was shot dead in Nyanga, Cape Town, on Monday morning, Western Cape police said. The 39-year-old man from Zwelitsha was apparently shot while on his way to work, said Captain Frederick van Wyk. Witnesses heard gun shots at around 6.15am. Van Wyk said the man was apparently[…]
The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement in South Africa (BDS SA) has saluted the over a hundred thousand people that came out in support of the national Palestine solidarity protest march on Saturday – hailed as the largest demonstration the country has ever seen. Activists from around the country descended[…]
Cape Town will not have tolled freeways like Gauteng, the SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) said on Sunday. “Firstly, whereas in Gauteng we went out to borrow money in order to build the road, with Cape Town we will be appointing a concessionaire on a Build, Operate and Transfer[…]
A rare sunny day during the middle of winter opened the blue sky as thousands of pro-Palestine supporters gathered in Cape Town on Saturday to attend one of the largest marches to take place in the mother city since the end of apartheid. A number of representatives from all organizations[…]
Cape Town was painted black, red, green and white on Saturday, as swarms of people took to the streets in solidarity with the people of Palestine. From as early as 9am, there was high volumes of traffic coming into the city and roads were blocked off in preparation for the[…]
Thousands of people were streaming into central Cape Town before noon on Saturday ahead of a pro-Palestine march through the city’s streets to Parliament. Many sang and held up posters and banners as they streamed towards the main gathering point at Keizergracht, from where the march was scheduled to have[…]
Prominent Israeli historian Prof Ilan Pappe is in South Africa for a week long lecture tour, starting off in Cape Town on Friday. Prof Pappe is considered the first Israeli Jewish historian to write about the Palestinian side with knowledge and empathy. His lecture tour is organised by Muslim Views[…]
Masses of people descended on the CBD today for a protest to Parliament in solidarity with Gaza. VOC News reporters estimate that more than 20 000 people are participating in the march and there is a sense of organised chaos. At Parliament, Sheikh Ebrahim Gabriels; the Palestinian ambassador to[…]
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