A blind street musician beaten up by Cape Town authorities has been awarded R300,000 in a civil claim, Beeld reported on Saturday. The Cape Town Regional Court on Thursday ordered the city council to pay for the damages suffered by Lunga Goodman Nono, 52, on July 8 last year. Since[…]
The Western Cape High Court is expected to hand down judgment in Sanral’s and the Protea Parkway Consortium’s (PPC) secrecy applications on Thursday, the City of Cape Town’s Mayoral committee member for transport Brett Herron said. The SA National Roads Agency Limited applied to the court to prevent the City[…]
Local community activist, Hanif Loonat has been suspended from his post in the City of Cape Town’s Civilian Oversight Committee following a comment he wrote on his Facebook page regarding the conflict in Gaza. Loonat’s post referred to the “death of Zionist Israel”. The complaint was lodged by the South African Jewish[…]
The City of Cape Town on Tuesday welcomed the judgment by the High Court in Cape Town in civil action against the Cape Town Informal Settlement organisation and its members. The organisation failed to oppose the matter in court and a default judgment in excess of R55,000 was granted, the[…]
Residents and community members from the Strandfontein community held a protest march this past weekend, against a perceived lack of communication by the City of Cape Town towards decision making in the area. The march, which was organised by the Strandfontein Social and Economic Development Forum, highlighted numerous problems currently[…]
Western Cape premier Helen Zille is expected to brief media in Cape Town on the Lwandle inquiry, among other matters, later on Tuesday. The inquiry, into the removal of 849 families from Sanral-owned land on June 2 and 3, began on Monday. Set up by Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu[…]
Photo: Andriques Che Petersen The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) have been coaxed into an arrangement by Transport Minister Dipuo Peters and Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu to allow recently evicted residents of Lwandle in Strand’s Nomzamo informal settlement to continue staying there for a short period of[…]
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