Tauhierah Salie

LOCAL Cape Town businessman, Ismail Rajah, has been safely reunited with his family. According to police, he was rescued, unharmed, from captors at a house in Khayelitsha after midnight. The 69-year-old was kidnapped outside his business premises in Parow in March. SAPS National Anti-Kidnapping Task Team investigated after the family departed to Dubai to facilitate a ransom demand. Four suspects, including two Mozambican nationals and two South Africans, between the […]

By Tauhierah Salie The City of Cape Town’s targeting of informal traders is once again in the spotlight. The South African Informal Traders Alliance (SAITA) has called on the City to collectively work toward resolving issues related to trading permits- and treat hawkers in a dignified manner. It follows an incident in Gatesville on Saturday, whereby the goods of four illegal traders were impounded, at least 15 traders fined and […]

By Tauhierah Salie The City of Cape Town’s annual tariff increase, of 4.6 percent this year, will apply to cemeteries. The increases will be implemented from Friday, 1 July 22. The City’s head of cemetery management, Recreation and Parks, Susan Brice, told VOC that raise is standard and remains in line with inflation. “We saw no reason to not apply increase whatsoever, we also felt that any excessive increase would […]