Hundreds of high school learners from a Cape Town School protested outside the Western Cape Department of Education on Thursday to demand more textbooks. Grade 8 to 12 learners from Maitland High School, clad in full school attire and school bags, were bearing paper signs that read, “No textbooks, no[…]
A Western Cape High Court judge explained his reasoning on Wednesday for giving a window tinter an 18 year sentence for murdering a man whose heart was ripped out and cut into neat blocks. Andrew Chimboza, 35, pleaded guilty to murdering 62-year-old Mbuyiselo Manona in Gugulethu in June last year.[…]
Cape Town mayor Patricia De Lille was named the Democratic Alliance’s Western Cape leader on Saturday, after the party’s provincial vote saw her appointed to the post ahead of counterpart Lennit Max. The results were read out at a packed His People’s Church in Goodwood, Cape Town, at 16:25, with[…]
The newly-elected leadership team of the Democratic Alliance’s Western Cape branch has expressed its backing for Mmusi Maimane in his candidacy for party leader. Just under 1 000 people, including delegates, party supporters and journalists, were present at His People’s Church in Goodwood, Cape Town for the DA’s Western Cape[…]
The four-year-old toddler allegedly forced to smoke dagga by an older brother has been found, the Western Cape social development department said on Wednesday. “The DSD [Department of Social Development] ministry was yesterday [Tuesday] made aware of a 17-year-old teenager who had posted pictures on social media of him allegedly[…]
Sanef on Monday said it was appalled by the Western Cape government’s call for all provincial departments to stop subscribing to the Cape Times. “Sanef finds it appalling that the executive committee of the Western Cape government, led by a former journalist, Ms Helen Zille, interferes at this level in[…]
Four firefighters were injured while battling a fire at the Jonkershoek Nature Reserve, near Stellenbosch, paramedics said on Wednesday. “It is understood the firefighters sustained soft tissue injuries when they tried to escape the overwhelming fire,” ER24 spokeswoman Chitra Bodasing said. “Paramedics arrived on scene and assessed the firefighters.” The[…]
Unhappy with the current state of leadership within the Western Cape, community members across the Cape Flats have banded together to form a new political party, with the hopes of addressing some of the core issues currently facing their communities. The new Social Democratic Party (SDP) is expected to launch[…]
Cape Town mayor Patricia De Lille announced on Monday that she would be standing for the position of Democratic Alliance leader in the Western Cape. “I am pleased to announce that I’m standing to be leader of the DA in the Western Cape,” she wrote on social networking site Twitter.[…]
A family was killed in their home on a private golf estate in Stellenbosch on Tuesday morning, Western Cape police said. It is believed the father, 55, mother, 54, and 22-year-old son were attacked in their home in the De Zalze Golf Estate in the early hours of the morning,[…]
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