Six people died in two separate fires in Cape Town on Friday night. City of Cape Town spokesperson Jermaine Carelse said four people died in Bonteheuwel and four others sustained varying degrees of burn wounds when a fire broke out at a house in Vyeboom Street. “The city’s fire & rescue service was alerted to the incident by CCTV operators at about 2am. “Crews from Epping who were first on […]
A community leader from Bonteheuwel in Cape Town has expressed shock at the arrested of one of the residents of the area for allegedly selling naked pictures of her four-year-old daughter on the Dark Web. The 32-year-old woman, who appeared in court yesterday, is facing a string of related charges, including financial gain from child pornography and rape. She remains in custody until her next appearance in the Bishop Lavis […]
Just over a year ago, on the 23rd March, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the country would go into a 21 day lockdown in a bid to flatten the curve of coronavirus infections. However, a year later citizens still find themselves under alert level 1 of the national lockdown. For many communities on the Cape Flats adopting a sustainable feeding method during the national state of disaster was a precarious […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
