Tauhierah Salie, Author at Voice of the Cape

SONA to be held at CT City Hall

LOCAL President Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver the State of the Nation Address from Cape Town City Hall this year. The Presiding Officers of Parliament evaluated suggested locations following the devastating National Assembly fire on Sunday. Parliament's spokesperson Moloto Mothapo says City Hall in Cape Town has been selected as the appropriate location. Meanwhile, the City of Cape Town has released a post-incident report prepared by the City’s Fire Department on […]

7 January 2022

Local

Police arrest two suspects over drug possession in Gugulethu, Nyanga

LOCAL An elderly man was arrested in Nyanga yesterday after being found with a large amount of dagga. Police say a 73-year-old was discovered with 23 parcels dagga, 17 dagga “stoppe” and a undisclosed amount of cash. Meanwhile, a 31-year-old suspect was arrested after being busted with a host of drugs in Gugulethu. Police say this includes 10 grams uncut crystal meth, 53 bankies crystal meth, one mandrax tablet, 31 […]

7 January 2022

Local

COCT says earthy flavoured water is safe to drink

LOCAL The City of Cape Town has reassured residents detecting an earthy flavour to their tap water, that it remains safe to drink. Mayoral committee member for Water and Sanitation Zahid Badroodien says the change in taste is due to a naturally occurring organic compound called geosmin in the raw water supply. He says it poses no threat to human health and water treatment processes are underway.

7 January 2022

Local

SA health dept records over 3 500 new Covid-19 cases

LOCAL The South African Health dept says another 3 504 people have tested positive for- and 45 people have died- of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. Although the Western Cape has reported the most new cases, the province has passed the peak of the fourth wave ascribed to the Omicron variant. The test positivity rate has decreased somewhat to 21-percent. Gauteng has the second most new cases, followed by […]

7 January 2022

News

CoCT invests millions into Dia-a-Ride service for special needs commuters

VOC The City of Cape Town has invested R17 million in new vehicles for the Dial-a-Ride (DAR) service for commuters with special needs. The new fleet consists of 13 vehicles and is expected to be fully operational by mid-January 2022. The fleet can accommodate 64 seated passengers with special needs and 56 passengers in wheelchairs per trip. The buses are also fitted with cameras and tracking devices. The City’s Mayoral […]

6 January 2022

International

Rights group calls on Olympic committee to ensure no links to forced Uighur labour

INTERNATIONAL A Uighur human rights group has called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to explain what steps it has taken to ensure that official apparel for next month's Beijing Winter Games was not made using forced labour. The Coalition to End Forced Labor in the Uighur Region said in a statement on Tuesday that the IOC has not offered credible evidence that Olympic-branded apparel was made without forced labour […]

6 January 2022

International

Israeli military court sentences Palestinian American over occupied West Bank attack

INTERNATIONAL An Israeli military court handed down two life sentences on Wednesday to a Palestinian man with US citizenship for the killing of an Israeli in a drive-by shooting in the occupied West Bank last year. Muntasir Shalabi received one life sentence for the murder of 19-year-old Yehuda Guetta and another for the attempted murder of Guetta's friends who were also injured in the attack near a Nablus-area checkpoint. "The […]

6 January 2022

International

Two Palestinians killed in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank

INTERNATIONAL Two Palestinians were killed in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, with one man shot dead by the Israeli army at the entrance to the Balata refugee camp, near Nablus, and another man reportedly run over by a settler west of Ramallah. Bakir Hashash, 21, was shot in the head after the Israeli army entered the Nablus suburb of Balata al-Balad, Palestinian medical and security sources said. […]

6 January 2022

International

Judiciary officials linked to criminal gangs: Tunisia president

INTERNATIONAL Tunisian President Kais Saied has condemned senior officials in the judiciary and accused them of being linked to what he described as “criminal gangs”. In a video clip broadcast by the Tunisian presidency on its official Facebook page on Wednesday, Saied said that whoever commits a crime will be tried like other citizens. “Everyone knows that some of those who took up leading positions in courts were at the […]

6 January 2022

Tauhierah Salie

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