# The Western Cape Education Department says parents of learners who wish to apply for a school transfer for the 2026 school year have until midnight today to apply. Spokesperson Bronagh Hammond says this applies to learners already attending school in Grades 2 to 7, and Grades 9 to 12. She says transfer applications can also be […]
# The City of Cape Town says over the past 12 months, there was a reduction in the number of residential fires and related fatalities. Residential fire statistics for the 2024/2025 financial year, recorded three-thousand-773 informal residential fires and formal residential fires and 166 fatalities across Cape Town. Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security, JP Smith says the overall […]
# The City of Tshwane’s Forensic Services Division, and Tshwane Metro Police has discovered and exposed an individual posing as a legitimate employee at the city’s Rietvlei Water Treatment Plant. This followed a request from the Office of the Chief Operations Officer to investigate suspicions of identity fraud involving a staff member, under the name Prince. […]
# The National Prosecuting Authority in the Eastern Cape has welcomed the sentencing of three men to life imprisonment for the calculated assassination of police detective, warrant officer, Phumlani Dastile who was murdered in Zwelitsha in August 2021. The NPA’s spokesperson, Luxolo Tyali says Thando Mangolwane, Siyabonga Zimela, and Siphelo Bebe killed Dastile in revenge […]
# Die GOOD-party sê prokureurs wat opposisiepartye in die Stad Kaapstad verteenwoordig, het aan die speaker van die raad, Felicity Purchase, geskryf. Daar word aangedring dat eerskomende Dinderdag se raadsvergadering nie virtueel bygewoon word nie, maar in persoon. Jonathan Cupido van GOOD sê as die Speaker nie aan die eis voldoen nie, sal die partye […]
# Die Nasionale Seereddingsinstituut sê daar is geen nuwe verwikkelinge in die voortgesette soektog langs Durban se Noordkus na die 61-jarige vermiste Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens- en akrobatiese vlieënier Andrew Blackwood-Murray van Johannesburg nie. Die instituut se woordvoerder, Craig Lambinon, sê die soek- en bergingsoperasie, gelei deur polisieduikers, duur voort. Hy sê gevorderde tegnologie en soektegnologie word […]
# Die Universiteit van die Wes-Kaap sê dokter Chontrelle Willemse is betrokke by navorsing om kanker te fnuik. Haar jongste navorsing behels die ontwikkeling van ‘n 3D-laboratoriummodel van die bloed-breinversperring. Willemse sê hulle het getoets hoe goed sekere middels die brein kan deurdring, en hoe seine wat deur verspreide kankerselle vrygestel word, die versperring kan […]
# The University of the Western Cape says doctor Chontrelle Willemse is involved in additional research to outwit cancer. Her latest research involves developing a 3D lab-grown model of the blood-brain barrier. Willemse says they tested how well certain drugs can get through to the brain, and how signals released by spreading cancer cells might weaken or […]
# The National Sea Rescue Institute says there are no new developments in the ongoing search along Durban’s North Coast for missing South African Airways and aerobatic pilot Andrew Blackwood-Murray, age 61, from Johannesburg. The institute’s spokesperson, Craig Lambinon says the search and recovery operation, led by Police divers, is ongoing. He says advanced technology and […]
