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LOCAL The mayor of Cape Town, Geordin Hill-Lewis has reached out to the family of the homeless man who was allegedly killed by a metro law enforcement officer and indicated his willingness to help where possible with some of the costs associated with the burial. Hill-Lewis also called for respect for the ongoing criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of the man in Chester Street on the […]

LOCAL In a bid to garner support, Cape Town’s mayor has made a public appeal to residents to sign a petition rejecting Eskom’s upcoming electricity price hike of 20.5 percent. A total of 30 675 Capetonians signed a petition against higher Eskom electricity tariffs. Mayor Geordin Hill Lewis says it far exceeds the inflation rate of 5.5%.  He has called on Eskom's CEO to withdraw the application from Nersa, saying […]

LOCAL The Thulsie twins will return to the High Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday morning. The media is expected to bring an application to broadcast proceedings. The brothers are facing charges for plotting attacks on South African soil. Tony-Lee and Brandon-Lee Thulsie were arrested in 2016 following raids in various parts of Gauteng. They were accused of having links to the Islamic State group. The state alleged they were plotting to detonate […]

LOCAL The Life Esidimeni Inquest will on Tuesday continue to cross-examine former Gauteng Health Department’s Deputy Director-General for Mental Health Services, Hannah Jacobus. on Monday, she testified that some NGOs were not able to accommodate mentally ill patients after being transferred as they didn’t have sufficient beds and linen. A total of 144 of them died from hunger and neglect during the June 2016 marathon transfer from Life Esidimeni facilities. The inquest […]

LOCAL The Covid-19 test positivity rate keeps declining and reached 9.3-percent in the latest reporting period. Only 1 691 new cases were confirmed, while yesterday’s 25 new deaths took the tally in South Africa since the start of the pandemic to 93 451. Gauteng is now the province with the most new cases, namely 456, followed by the Western Cape with 316 and KwaZulu-Natal with 285. The National Institute for […]

The Table Mountain National Park has appealed to residents to be vigilant as the Fire Danger Index (FDI) for the greater Cape Town area is high. It comes as mopping up operations are underway following a fire on the mountains above Simons Town. Several services have been deployed to Matroosberg mountain in De Doorns, where a lightning strike caused a fire on Friday evening. The Cape Winelands District Municipality's Fire […]

The Koeberg nuclear power station has announced two five-month long planned outages for this year. Unit 2 will go offline tomorrow, with unit 1 being taken offline after that. The plans have raised fears of more loadshedding as the national network will be under additional strain. But the power station’s chief nuclear officer Riedewaan Barkardien says the long outages are necessary.

The man accused of starting the fire that caused severe damage to buildings in the parliamentary precinct, says the conditions in the Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital in Cape Town are inhumane. Zandile Mafe’s bail application was abandoned yesterday to allow his legal team to challenge the court order for his 30-day mental observation. He has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. The court challenge is scheduled for Tuesday, while the Western Cape […]

The health dept says the Covid-19 test positivity rate has fallen further to 12.5-percent. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases recorded 4 592 new cases yesterday, with 73 new hospital admissions. While the Western Cape, Gauteng and Kwa-Zulu Natal remain the provinces with the most coronavirus cases, the Northern Cape accounted for only three-percent of infections. The Health Department reported 161 new fatalities. The health department reports over 102 470 […]