Bo-Kaap residents have accused property developer Blok Urban Living of underhanded tactics after the developer’s Western Cape High Court application to interdict residents from interrupting construction at its Lion Street site. The application, before Judge Patrick Gamble, was for the interdict to be made permanent. However, Judge Gamble found that the application had what seemed..
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Bo-Kaap residents hit out at developer over ‘underhanded tactics’ that are being used to traumatise the working-class people
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Converting RDP houses into many roomed dwellings for rent has become a hot business – a house in Dunoon, Cape Town, on sale for R1.7 million
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A former RDP house, upgraded to a double-storey and expanded to 15 rentable rooms in Dunoon, Cape Town, has been listed for sale on a popular property website with an asking price of over R1.7 million. Some rooms have cracks and peeling paint and it is squeezed onto a 147m² site, but the house was..
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Gunsteling voetslaanpad word nou gevaarlik – Twee stappers is op ’n wandelroete by Simonstad geroof, met vuurwapen aangehou en een stapper in been geskiet
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‘n Man (64) is Maandagmiddag in die been geskiet in ’n aanval by die Kleinplaasdam bokant Simonstad, Kaapstad, terwyl hy en ’n vrou (51) gestap het. Kapt. FC van Wyk, polisiewoordvoerder, sê die twee stappers is deur twee onbekende jong mans genader en met ’n vuurwapen aangehou. Hulle is van hul selfone, geld en rugsakke..
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Students at Cape Peninsula University of Technology build shacks on campus in protest against accommodation shortage
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Students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) have put up shacks on the Bellville campus to highlight problems with accommodation. Last week classes were disrupted at the university’s four campuses as students protested. The shacks were first erected on Monday afternoon after the students were evicted from a conference room where they had..
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Bendes kaap eens spog pretpark van kinders in Seawinds-buurt – vandalisme, diefstal, misdaad en die onwettige drinkery en dwelmmisbruik vier hoogty
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Soos sonverbleikte beendere van ’n walvis lê die eens spoggerige pretpark van die Seawinds-buurt naby Lavender Hill daar: gestroop van metaal, rubber, hout en kabels. Dié sogenaamde slimpark, wat belastingbetalers R7,6 miljoen gekos het en op Erfenisdag in September 2017 geopen het, is een van ses wat die Kaapstad-munisipaliteit tot dusver gebou het. Daar is..
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Gemeenskap treur na nog ’n boer se lewe geëis word in dodelike Suid-Afrika – Boer van Lutzville op plaas vermoor
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Die lyk van ’n boer van Lutzville aan die Weskus is Sondag buite sy plaashuis aangetref. Jaco Louw (57) is Sondag laatoggend met ’n steekwond in sy bors deur ’n plaaswerker gekry. Louw het glo alleen op die plaas buite die dorp gebly. Sers. Noloyiso Rwexana, Wes-Kaapse polisiewoordvoerder, het bevestig die polisie ondersoek ’n saak..
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Beaufort West municipality spent R2-million to build 21 toilets, indicating that one toilet cost taxpayers R110 000? – There is reason to believe that somebody has filled their pockets with taxpayers money!
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The MEC of the Western Cape’s department of human settlements, Bonginkosi Madikizela, has lifted the lid on something he calls corruption at the Beaufort West municipality. Two years ago, it is alleged that the municipality, under the leadership of mayor Truman Prince, received a budget boost equalling R1.9-million. The funds were for the building of..
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Park van R7,6 miljoen vir kinders naby Lavender Hill is ná net meer as ’n jaar net ’n “uitgebrande skelet” nadat vandalisme handuit ruk
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’n Park van R7,6 miljoen vir kinders naby Lavender Hill is ná net meer as ’n jaar net ’n “uitgebrande skelet”, sê die Kaapstadse metroraad. Die metroraad het Woensdag sy afgryse uitgespreek oor die “kwaadwillige vernietiging en vandalisme” van die Seawinds Smart Park, wat nou glo “niks meer as ’n hoop rommel en as” is..
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Bendelede van Kaapstad wat in polisie-uniforms geklee is aangekeer -Verdagte lid dra dames uniform en word uitgevang
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Twee lede van die 26-bende in Lavender Hill is Maandagoggend vroeg kort ná 03:25 in die middestad van Kaapstad in hegtenis geneem. Die twee mans was glo albei in polisie-uniforms geklee toe hulle by Club 7, op die hoek van Loop- en Prestwick-straat, aangekeer is. Hulle was glo op soek na die eienaar van die..
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Peter Marais, will be running as the Freedom Front Plus’ Western Cape premier candidate – this is the same man who hopped from seven political parties in 25 years!
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Veteran politician Peter Marais has announced yet another comeback to the political arena – The 70-year-old has found an unlikely new political home, this time the Freedom Front Plus after joining Icosa as its metro chairperson just six months ago. On Tuesday, he denied joining the party, saying he was only consulting for Icosa and..
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