The eThekwini municipality has started disconnecting water and electricity to homeowners participating in a rates boycott. This comes after ratepayer associations decided to withhold their rates payments in a protest against high tariff increases and deteriorating service delivery in the city. Westville Ratepayers Association (WRA) chairperson Asad Gaffar told TimesLIVE the[…]
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has written to the South African Post Office to request an urgent engagement on the closure of all its services in Mitchells Plain. According to a statement released by the COCT, Lewis said it was unacceptable that Mitchells Plain residents were simply being referred to[…]
By: Aneeqa du Plessis The excitement was palpable at the Kenilworth Centre shopping mall where Redefine Properties unveiled the first retail urban rooftop farm in the province. The aim of the unique farm is to inspire purpose in disadvantaged persons in a sustainable way. It also intends to empower unemployed[…]
Cape Town Mayor, Geordin Hill-Lewis, has welcomed a police undertaking to remove barbed wire around Government Avenue in the Mother City. The South African Police Service (SAPS) has decided to take it down following requests from Hill-Lewis who described it as an unlawful obstruction for the public wanting to access[…]
As the government struggles to provide sufficient electricity, public transport and other basic services, the country’s main tourist hub is increasingly going it alone. Cape Town, which has been led by the opposition DA since 2006, is forging ahead with plans to secure its own energy supply. It’s also investigating[…]
A suicide bomb attack on Mogadishu’s government headquarters injured the mayor and several other Somali officials on Wednesday, Reuters reported. No one immediately claimed responsibility but Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group Al Shabaab, which wants to topple the UN-backed government, is known to carry out such attacks. “A suicide bomber walked into[…]
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has ordered the Democratic Alliance (DA) to desist from saying that Good Party leader Patricia de Lille was fired as Cape Town Mayor. It has ordered the party to publicly apologise to De Lille within three days. The IEC ruled in her favour after she[…]
By Anees Teladia Mayor of Cape Town Dan Plato is mulling over a decision to close Madrassa-Tu-Taliya in Lotus River, in light of calls by the community that any shutdown will severely impact the school. Learners, teachers and parents fear that they may be forced to move after several unsuccessful[…]
Outgoing Cape Town Mayor Patricia De Lille says she will give her replacement Dan Plato “the benefit of the doubt” to continue the work she did during her seven years in office. “He will be inheriting a city which is well run,” De Lille told News24. “The irony is that,[…]
The Western Cape High Court has ordered that the termination of Patricia de Lille’s DA membership by the party was illegal and invalid. The decision was set aside, and the party ordered to pay the Cape Town mayor’s legal costs. High Court judge Andre le Grange handed down the judgment,[…]
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