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LOCAL DA leader John Steenhuisen has called for the blacklisting of corrupt home affairs officials. Steenhuisen and other DA leaders conducted an oversight visit at the home affairs offices in Johannesburg central on Wednesday in the wake of  simmering anger among South Africans over undocumented foreigners. Foreigners should not be expected to have legal documentation when the department is incapable of doing its job, he said. He blamed the department […]

LOCAL Residents of Joe Slovo informal settlement in Langa on the Cape Flats are appealing for assistance with building materials. They have been displaced after their dwellings were destroyed in a fire on Saturday. The City of Cape Town no longer provides emergency building kits. At least 1 200 people have been left homeless after a fire swept through the area. A Joint Operations Centre has been set up in the […]

LOCAL The Cape Town Disaster Risk Management Centre says it has requested that the provincial Human Settlements Department assist in the rebuilding of homes for residents of the Joe Slovo informal settlement in Langa. It follows a fire that destroyed around 300 dwellings on the Cape Flats at the weekend, leaving 1 200 people homeless. “Our concern now is to get the community back on their feet and start rebuilding, […]

LOCAL The last group of the nearly 1 500 beneficiaries have been handed their keys to their brand new homes of the N-2 Gateway Boystown Housing project at Crossroads near Nyanga, Cape Town. The project which was started in 2010 had several delays due to community infighting about the allocation of the houses. Provincial Minister of Human Settlements Tertuis Simmers says communities from five informal settlements like New Rest, Gqhobasi […]

LOCAL There’s still traffic congestion at the Beitbridge border post between South Africa and Zimbabwe. This as travellers continue to make their way to their various destinations. Most people have been crossing into Zimbabwe as they head to other SADC countries in the north. Home Affairs officials have also arrested undocumented foreign nationals. Buses and the taxis carrying people are stopping at the Beitbridge Border Post to allow the customs officials to […]

LOCAL Motorists are reminded to ensure their cars are roadworthy and be cautious on the roads this weekend. This as officials investigate the cause of a tragic on the N1 near Leeu-Gamka in the Western Cape on Good Friday. Eleven lives were lost and 13 people were injured, when a bus and a minibus taxi collided. Western Cape Traffic spokesperson, Jandre Bakker, says their preliminary investigations suggest that the taxi […]

LOCAL President Cyril Ramaphosa has appealed to South Africans to spare a prayer for the thousands affected by record downpours in KwaZulu-Natal. The SANDF is due to be deployed to assist flood-stricken communities, where at least R1 billion in emergency relief funds has been freed. The Public Protector’s office is expected to ‘monitor and follow up on’ all aid distributed to victims to ensure ‘organs of state make good on […]