A female minor has died in a fire in Mandela Park in Hout Bay. The City's Fire and Rescue Service responded to the blaze at 12h14 on Monday afternoon. Spokesperson Theo Layne said between ten and 15 informal structures were affected by the fire. “Four Fire Engines, four Water Tankers and one Rescue vehicle with 30 Firefighters are on scene,” Layne stated. The fire was contained as of 12h45. Layne […]
A group of Hout Bay fishermen pleaded with residents of the town on Thursday to join them in their challenge to the government to get their fishing rights back. "If you want to help us, don't be scared," said Neil Williams to about 100 protesters who met at the harbour at sunset for a peaceful protest and to explain their issues to a community shocked by the violent clashes with […]
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Senzeni Zokwana on Sunday met various leaders from the Western Cape’s fishing communities. The meeting was held in response to a memorandum handed over last Monday to the Fisheries Branch in Cape Town, according to a statement from the ministery. One of the demands in the memorandum was to meet with Zokwana within seven days of handing over the memorandum. Hangberg, Hout Bay has […]
Hout bay residents have promised to stop their protests for the time being, as it looks to continue engagement with authorities on their grievances. This emerged at a meeting in Hangberg today, attended by MEC for Community Safety Dan Plato and Hout Bay ward councillor Rob Quintas. It follows a week of tension, which saw local fisherman, stage a violent demonstration over their fishing rights. The fishermen burnt rubber, tyres […]
A 14-year-old boy who was shot in the face with rubber bullets in Hout Bay has been left with a gaping wound in his mouth. "Ona can't eat. He is struggling,'' his mother Pinky Dubula said. "It is going to be difficult for him now that he has a hole in his mouth." Ona was shot by police during protests in Hangberg, Hout Bay, on Tuesday. Doctors at Cape Town's […]
Police commanders and Hangberg community leaders were locked in a meeting at the Hout Bay station on Thursday afternoon to thrash out a way forward following protests in the area. Loud voices could be heard from the commander's office, where the closed meeting had been going on for about three hours. Back in Hangberg, people sat next to the street and waited for word on what to do. Smoke billowed […]
A Hout Bay fishing activist says Tuesday’s violent protest in the fishing town is the result of simmering frustrations amongst the fishing community. Mayhem erupted in the fishing village as fishermen barricaded roads burning tyres and rubble, clashed with police‚ petrol bombed Nyalas. Police responded with rubber bullets‚ tear gas and stun grenade, injuring an 11 year old boy who was shot in the mouth with a rubber bullet. A […]
Rubber bullets broke his ribs and smashed his tongue. I wanted to ask Ona Dubula how he’d crossed the Hout Bay valley from Imizamo Yethu and wound up on the frontlines of a fishing rights demonstration near Hangberg. But the fourteen-year-old had gauze stuffed in his mouth after being shot at close range by rubber bullets‚ and couldn’t speak. I found him in the trauma ward of Groote Schuur hospital […]
Residents from Imizamo Yethu in Hout Bay planned to march in Cape Town on Tuesday to demand basic services and an end to “superblocking” in the fire-hit township. The organisers‚ mostly representatives from areas most seriously affected by the large fire in March‚ will hand over a memorandum to mayor Patricia de Lille’s office. They also want De Lille to send “experts” to meet residents and have asked for the […]
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