# The City of Cape Town’s Walking and Cycling Strategy has recently been approved by Council. The municipality’s Urban Mobility Directorate seeks to, over time, reposition walking and cycling as safe, accessible, sustainable and primary modes of transport in Cape Town. Mayoral committee member for Urban Mobility, Rob Quintas says this long-term strategy supports the […]
# The National Institute For Communicable Diseases is calling for heightened awareness against rabies. Rabies is a viral disease transmitted primarily through the saliva of infected animals. The Institue’s doctor Vuyiswa Khumalo says most human rabies cases are linked to dog bites, and the disease is almost always fatal once symptoms appear. She says rabies remains a […]
# Die Kaapstadse stadsraad het onlangs die stad se Stap- en Fietsrystrategie goedgekeur. Die munisipaliteit se Stedelike Mobiliteitsdirektoraat poog om stap en fietsry mettertyd as veilige, toeganklike, volhoubare en primêre vervoermiddele in Kaapstad te herposisioneer. Die burgemeesterskomiteelid vir Stedelike Mobiliteit, Rob Quintas, sê dié langtermynstrategie ondersteun die belegging in voetganger- en fietsryverbeterings wat toegang tot […]
# Die DA doen ‘n beroep op die polisie en die Departement van Korrektiewe Dienste om ‘n openbare beloning aan te bied vir inligting wat kan lei tot die herarrestasie van Me-Kayle Timmie en Mikyle Mentoor wat by die Pollsmoor-gevangenis in die Wes-Kaap vermis geraak het. Nicholas Gotsell van die DA sê eerder as om […]
# The DA is calling on police and the Department of Correctional Services to offer a public reward for information that can lead to the rearrest of Me-Kayle Timmie and Mikyle Mentoor who went missing at the Pollsmoor Correctional Centre in the Western Cape. The DA’s Nicholas Gotsell says rather than owning up to systemic failures, the department now […]
# Die polisie in KwaZulu-Natal het ‘n soektog van stapel gestuur na twee verdagtes wat gisteraand vier mense by ‘n huis in die Mzomusha-gebied in Dundee doodgeskiet het. ‘n Polisiewoordvoerder, Robert Netshiunda, sê twee manlike slagoffers, onderskeidelik 31 en 35 jaar oud, was buite die huis toe twee verdagtes opgedaag en op hulle losgebrand het. […]
# ActionSA se Vroueforum sê ongereguleerde kinderversorgingsfasiliteite word steeds bedryf sonder die nodige sertifisering of nakoming van veiligheidstandaarde in die land. Modiehi Mashaba van die forum sê die tragiese dood van vier kinders Maandag in ‘n brand in Mayfair, Johannesburg, beklemtoon die sistemiese mislukking om kinders teen onveilige omgewings te beskerm. Sy sê geen kind […]
# Die GOOD-party het teleurstelling uitgespreek oor die staat se besluit om voorlopig die bedrogklagte van een-miljard-rand teen die voormalige burgemeesterskomiteelid vir Menslike Nedersettings van Kaapstad, Malusi Booi, en die vermeende bendebaas, Ralph Stanfield en ander terug te trek. Die party sê die stap wek ernstige kommer oor die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag se vermoë om ingewikkelde […]
# The GOOD Party has expressed disappointment over the state’s decision to provisionally withdraw one-billion-rand fraud charges against former Cape Town mayoral Committee member for Human Settlements Malusi Booi, alleged gang boss Ralph Stanfield and others. The party argues the move raises serious concerns about the National Prosecuting Authority’s ability to tackle complex cases. GOOD’s […]