CCTV footage may help claim for damage
A woman says her car was involved in a hit-and-run accident with a van driven by a municipal employee. ||| A woman is urging the City of Cape Town to review footage of an intersection in Athlone where...
View ArticleMan appears over illegal security firm
Millionaire Sea Point businessman Mark Lifman has been granted bail after appearing in court. ||| Millionaire Sea Point businessman Mark Lifman has been granted bail after appearing in the Cape Town...
View ArticleTaxi violence unacceptable
The Western Cape legislature says the violence displayed during a protest by taxi drivers in Hout Bay is unacceptable. ||| The violence displayed during a protest by minibus taxi drivers in Hout Bay,...
View ArticleTwo held for 60kg of dagga
Two women have been arrested after 60kg of dagga was allegedly found in their suitcases at a roadblock. ||| Two women were arrested when 60kg of dagga was allegedly found in their suitcases at a...
View ArticleCharity suspends alleged child rapist
Solidarity has suspended a volunteer who allegedly raped a 12-year-old boy in the Western Cape. ||| Solidarity has suspended a volunteer who allegedly raped a 12-year-old boy in the Western Cape, the...
View ArticleEx-ministerial bodyguard in court
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa's former police bodyguard and two other men have appeared in court. ||| Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa's former police bodyguard and two other men appeared in the Wynberg...
View ArticleWhite man in land claim bid
A white man claiming compensation for land his family was “forced” to sell. ||| It was designed to discourage people of colour from living in certain affluent areas earmarked for white people, but...
View ArticleGang of high school girls attacks 4 pupils
Four pupils were allegedly attacked by 20 members of a gang called the Sexy Girls. ||| A bloody fight between school girls has left one learner in hospital with a punctured lung. Three of the stabbed...
View ArticleAffair led suicide cop to shoot wife – family
The family of a Metro police officer who shot his wife and turned the gun on himself believes an affair led to the tragedy. ||| The family of a Metro police officer who shot his cop wife and turned the...
View Article‘I didn’t know my house was sold’
A pensioner who says she was swindled out of her home says she signed the agreement without reading it. ||| A wheelchair-bound pensioner who says she was swindled out of her home by a company assisting...
View ArticleZille slams ANC for ‘destroying good schools’
Premier Helen Zille says poor and weak schools need to be released from the “criminal vice grip of Sadtu prisons”. ||| Poor and weak schools need to be released from the “criminal vice grip of Sadtu...
View ArticleANCYL denies disruption claims
The ANCYL has slammed claims that its members disrupted President Jacob Zuma's centenary address. ||| The ANCYL has denied that its members disrupted President Jacob Zuma's centenary address in Cape...
View Article‘City must have big say in rail network’
Mayor Patricia de Lille says City of Cape Town must have a bigger say in the running of Metrorail. ||| Once the City of Cape Town takes control of Metrorail’s subsidy, it must also have a bigger say in...
View ArticleTransport hub blitz sees 5000 fines issued
The City of Cape Town’s public transport interchange police have issued fines amounting to more than R2 million. ||| The City of Cape Town’s public transport interchange police, established in...
View ArticleColumn leaves NZ cricket bosses hot and bothered
A lighthearted column by Cape Times columnist John Scott has New Zealand’s top cricket bosses bleating. ||| A lighthearted column by Cape Times columnist John Scott has New Zealand’s top cricket bosses...
View ArticlePaedophile gets five years
Convicted paedophile Ian Appleton was jailed for five years for raping the then eight-year-old son of family friends. ||| Convicted paedophile Ian Appleton was jailed for five years by the Paarl...
View ArticleBanks mum on dealings with AA
Some of the country’s biggest banks, who have used the services of Auction Alliance, remained cagey about their relationships with the controversial company. ||| As untested accusations of kickbacks...
View ArticleFidentia man turns on FSB
J Arthur Brown has accused Fidentia’s curators of selling off assets illegally and lying about the distribution of more than R100 million in funds to the Living Hands Umbrella Trust. ||| J Arthur Brown...
View ArticleWorker’s flaming outburst
A disgruntled worker at the Swellendam municipality is facing an attempted murder charge after he hurled a petrol bomb at his boss’s office. ||| A disgruntled worker at the Swellendam municipality is...
View ArticleFlame sparks struggle tales
Struggle veterans reminisced about the evils of the apartheid regime as they gathered to celebrate the arrival of the ANC’s Centenary torch. ||| Veterans of the apartheid struggle reminisced about the...
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