The assault case against the ANC’s Western Cape secretary Faiez Jacobs is expected to resume in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. The ANC’s national disciplinary committee found him guilty of assault in April 2016, following an altercation with former ANC employee, Wesley Seale, at the ANC’s provincial offices[…]
Non-profit organisation Reclaim the City on Tuesday hung out “laundry” during the debate on the Western Cape State of the Province Address (SOPA), to object to the lack of inner city housing. “No deal on Tafelberg”, “land for the people not for profit” and “Is the provincial property committee broken?”[…]
The African National Congress (ANC) in the Western Cape is evoking the strategy that won in the province during the 2004 general elections. It’s hoping that by retracing its steps then, it will wrestle control of the province back from the Democratic Alliance (DA) in 2019. Hence the party’s Provincial[…]
The environmental affairs department on Friday, sent a contingent of about 1000 firefighters from its Working on Fire (WoF) programme to assist with disaster management officials in containing fires raging across the Western Cape. “The fire crews, bolstered by aerial support, have been busy at multiple fires in Somerset West,[…]
The average water level of Western Cape dams is less than 50% of capacity, local government MEC Anton Bredell confirmed on Wednesday. Dams in the province are currently at an average of 49.81%, compared to last year’s 58.39%. The Cape Town combined system dams are currently at 50.65%, compared to[…]
A R100 000 reward has been offered to help nab cop-killers in the Western Cape, the provincial community safety MEC, Dan Plato, said on Sunday. “In the past week, three police officers have lost their lives, some even while responding to the needs of the community they serve while on[…]
The Western Cape has the highest rate of universal access to improved drinking water sources in the country, says Statistics SA. At 99.4% the province is closely followed by the Free State at 99.3%, the Northern Cape at 99.1% and Gauteng at 98.6%. Nationally 92.5% of households have access to[…]
Western Cape Local Government Minister, Anton Bredell says he is pleased with the province’s preparations for the Disaster Management seasaon. Role players from the Disaster Risk Management and the National Sea Rescue Institute have presented their summer readiness plans in Cape Town. Bredell has urged the public to play their[…]
Emergency workers from across the province made their voices loud and clear on Wednesday – criminal attacks on their staff must stop. After a spate of attacks on Emergency Medical Service (EMS) workers in the Western Cape, a numbers of paramedics and ambulance staff gathered to voice their frustration. Over[…]
Addressing media, IEC’s Courtney Sampson says that while the election process has a number of phases, the voting phase for the 2016 Local Elections has officially been concluded and that the IEC has secured all results slips at the capturing sites. The Final stage of capturing of the results is[…]
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