# The City of Cape Town’s Fire and Rescue Service is switching focus from summer to winter. A review of winter statistics for the past three seasons show a decline in the number of structural fires from two-thousand-129 in 2022 to one-thousand-748 in 2024. Mayoral committee member for Safety and Security, JP Smith says there was an […]
# The family of 35-year-old Vyaksha Sookdew has welcomed the 23-year prison sentence handed to her former boyfriend, Sugendren Rodney Naicker, in the Durban High Court last week. Naicker pleaded guilty to killing Sookdew with a hammer during an argument in December 2023. Her decomposed body was found wrapped in plastic bags on Christmas Day. […]
# CapeNature se HeliHack-span het verlede maand meer as 15-duisend indringerdennebome van die steil hellings van die Boosmansbos-wildernisgebied verwyder. Die reusebewaringspoging het drie dae geduur, een-duisend-en-80 hektaar grond herstel en watersekerheid vir ongeveer 15-duisend inwoners in die Suid-Kaap verbeter. Die projek het ook gelei tot die herontdekking van die Boosmansbos-langstertbosspitsmuis, wat 46 jaar lank nie […]
# University of the Western Cape professor Dirk Smith says the management of mouth and teeth problems in people with substance use disorder is often not prioritised. Smit’s dissertation, titled Oral Health-Related Quality of Life, Dental Status and Treatment Needs of People with Substance Use Disorder, investigated the profound impact on the oral health of the 504 participants […]
# Die N3 Tolkonsessie sê die noord- en suidwaartse verkeer word herlei by die afritte van Roadside en Reitz-wisselaar in die Vrystaat. Die woordvoerder, Thania Dhoogra, sê dit volg nadat vragmotors die N3-tolpad versper het en verkeer op die snelweg in beide rigtings tot stilstand gedwing het. Sy sê die verkeer op die toneel begin […]
# Aviation Co-ordination Services has welcomed the South African Civil Aviation Authority’s approval to replace four critical Hold Baggage Screening units at OR Tambo and King Shaka International Airports. This follows a Johannesburg High Court ruling mandating the urgent upgrades amid concerns over aging equipment. ACS CEO Duke Phahla says the approved replacements aim to […]
# Public Works and Infrastructure minister, Dean Macpherson, has received the final report from the Council for the Built Environment on the tragic building collapse in George which claimed the lives of 34 individuals and injured 28 others. This report marks a critical step in the Department’s commitment to uncover the truth behind this preventable disaster. The […]
# N3 Toll Concession says north and southbound traffic is now being diverted via the off-ramps at the Roadside and Reitz Interchange in the Free State. Spokesperson Thania Dhoogra says this after trucks obstructed the N3 Toll Route and blocked the traffic on the highway in both directions. She says while traffic is slowly starting […]
# Baanbrekerwerk deur navorsers van die Universiteit van Kaapstad en die Universiteit van Kopenhagen, het van die oudste menslike genetiese data opgelewer wat ooit uit Afrika herwin is. Hulle het antieke proteïene gebruik om biologiese geslag en verborge genetiese variasie in Paranthropus robustus, ‘n uitgestorwe neef van die moderne mens – te ontbloot. Hulle het […]
