Residents rally as City of Cape Town plans to close water collection point: Cape Town residents are rallying behind a man who helped make a spring in the Newlands suburb more accessible to thousands of citizens. While the city has ordered that the spring be closed to the public, residents continue to collect water there as an act of defiance to claim what they believe belongs to the public and not the government. Riyaz Rawoot does not live in Newlands. His home is in the nearby suburb of Claremont, but over the years, his parents would tell him of a spring in Newlands where Capetonians could drink what is said to be the cleanest water that flows straight from Table Mountain. When the drought raised alarm in Cape Town in 2017, Rawoot, a physiotherapist by…
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Women and children may get their own train carriages: #UniteBehind says the Prasa board chair has undertaken to introduce chaperoned carriages. ……
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‘I killed girl because I was angry with her grandmother’: Strand resident Xolani Lantu says he raped and killed 5-year-old Minentle Lekhatha because he was angry with her grandmother. Lantu, 36, who is facing four charges – including kidnapping and two counts of rape and murder – pleaded guilty in the Western Cape High Court yesterday. Minentle’s body was discovered below a 5m-long bridge along the Soet River on June 3 last year after she went missing on the same day…
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Brazen #CIT heist at mall opposite Soweto police station: Johannesburg – Not even a police station opposite the Jabulani Mall in Soweto could deter the latest brazen cash-in-transit heist, which took place in broad daylight and resulted in a woman being shot. Ironically, Monday’s robbery took place on a day when five suspects arrested in connection with last week’s daring cash-in-transit heist appeared in the Boksburg Magistrate’s Court. The suspects were remanded in custody. Read: #CITRobbery: New scare tactics in heists Cops losing war on #CITRobberies Ex-cons driving cash-in-transit heists In the latest incident, Gauteng police spokesperson…
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Mayor hailed over low-cost housing for CBD skyscraper: Advocacy group Ndifuna Ukwazi has hailed a notice from Mayor Patricia de Lille indicating that she was considering including affordable housing at the Zero2One skyscraper to be built at the corner of Adderley and Strand streets. De Lille will make her final decision after considering representations from interested and affected parties, said Ndifuna Ukwazi researcher Julian Sendin. The developers, FWJK, submitted an…
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DA caucus v De Lille: Business as usual in the City of Cape Town?: Patrica de Lille has been back in office as Cape Town mayor for the past week, but how has her temporary return affected the functioning of the City of Cape Town? ……
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#VanBreda spends first night in prison hospital: The guilty verdict handed down to axe murderer Henri van Breda is the first step in ensuring he goes to prison for a long time, according to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). After a marathon trial which lasted more than a year in the Western Cape High Court, Judge Siraj Desai yesterday found Van Breda guilty of murdering his mother Teresa, 55, father Martin, 54, and brother Rudi, 22. He was also found guilty of the attempted murder of his sister, Marli, who was 16 when the attack took place on January 27, 2015. She survived a physical assault, and now…
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Equal Education ‘barred’ from schools over sex abuse claims: Cape Town – Embattled lobby group Equal Education (EE) has until end of business today to cease operations at all Western Cape schools, according to Education MEC Debbie Schäfer. This after three of the organisation’s leaders were implicated in allegations of sexual harassment. EE’s co-founder, Doron Isaacs, general secretary Tshepo Motsepe and head of national organising Luyolo Mazwembe resigned last week after female staff members reported allegations of sexual misconduct. Isaacs and Motsepe…
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DA proposes statutory fiscal rules to curb rocketing state debt and guarantees: The promulgation of statutory fiscal rules — the first in SA — has been proposed by the DA to put a brake on rocketing government debt and guarantees. Having fiscal rules as a statute would give Parliament authority over the critical aspect of the budget, which is normally just rubber-stamped by the legislature. Fiscal…
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Global ban puts SA’s mohair industry at risk: A ban on mohair by dozens of clothing retailers including H&M and Esprit, is threatening a R1.5bn industry in SA, the world’s biggest producer. Almost 70 clothing companies worldwide have announced that they will stop using mohair following the release earlier in May of video footage from 12 Angora goat farms in SA’s Karoo region. The footage showed goats being dragged by the legs or…
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