Woman battles City over Albow Gardens flat

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Shanaaz Button, whom the City accuses of unlawfully occupying one of its Albow Gardens flats, has accused the municipality of harassing her while ignoring more serious ...

Green light for new Killarney lease

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The city council has approved the extension of the Killarney International Raceway’s lease. Mayoral committee member for economic growth James Vos has welcomed the ...

Violent robberies shoot up

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Violent robberies have seen a marked increase in the Milnerton, Table View and Bothasig police precincts, according to the latest crime statistics. Released by Police ...

Councillor praises women, calls youth to step up

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Dunoon’s ward councillor Meisie Makuwa has praised women in the township for their resourcefulness, but she says the youth there are not doing enough to uplift the ...

Giant Google cable rolls from Europe to Melkbos

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A submarine cable running all the way from Portugal has landed in Melkbosstrand, bringing with it the promise of faster internet and lower data costs. Cape Town ...

Civics protest over ‘monstrous’ development

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The City’s Municipal Planning Tribunal has given the nod for a housing estate with its own sewage works to be built in Milnerton, but two civic groups are appealing, ...

Call for road-safety action in Melkbos

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Melkbosstrand residents are calling for rumbling strips, speed humps and other measures to curb accidents on roads in the area. Close to 2000 people have signed ...

Volunteers make clean sweep in Summer Greens

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Volunteers cleaned up the Emerald Way Park in Summer Greens, at the weekend. The 100-odd volunteers were part of Asez Wao, a South Korea-based church organisation. ...

City wants ‘illegal’ occupants ‘Albowed’ out

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The City has issued notices to several occupants of Brooklyn’s Albow Gardens council flats, who it says have occupied the units illegally. Seven of the complex’s ...

Milnerton beachfront due for construction work

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A sloped retaining wall will be built at the Milnerton beachfront to ...

Koeberg activists advise caution over energy plan

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Key regulatory safeguards, including public input, governing the future of the Koeberg nuclear power plant could be torpedoed by an “energy emergency” plan that ...

Rugby prodigy needs your help

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A rising young rugby star, Eduan Fourie, could have been playing at Craven Week these school holidays, but a freak car accident in Melkbosstrand has put him in hospital. ...

Pipe repairs a priority in poor areas, says mayor

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More than 29km of old sewer pipes have been replaced in the past year across Cape Town, beating a City target by 3km, and repairs are a priority in poor, cramped ...

Strikers accuse Takealot of exploitation

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More than 200 workers have downed tools in an unprotected strike at Takealot’s Montague Gardens depot, demanding permanent jobs and accusing the company of ill-treatment ...

Blackouts batter small businesses

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Joe Slovo entrepreneurs are buckling under the strain of Eskom’s rolling blackouts. Small-business owners say they’re suffering big losses from the power cuts, and ...

City helps young people get learner’s licences

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More than 100 young men and women from Phoenix, Dunoon and Khayelitsha now have learners’ licences, thanks to a City programme. The Community Action Plan (CAP) pilot ...

Flooding misery in Ekuphumleni

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Ekuphumleni residents were still mopping up at the weekend after heavy rains swamped their shacks last week. Three days of rain flooded large parts of Phoenix and ...

City fines street people but can’t say if they pay

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It’s unclear whether any of the more than 140 fines issued, in April, to street people for unlawful land occupation and other by-law transgressions ...

Confidence in cops at ‘all-time low’- civic

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The public’s faith in the police is at an all-time low following the release of the latest crime data pointing to a surge in both violent crime and theft in Table ...

Beach squatters threaten tourism, says civic

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Residents are fuming over squatters who have set up makeshift shelters on Bloubergstrand.

City to spend more than R20m on vlei rehab

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The City plans to spend more than R20 million over the next three years on cleaning up vleis, but water activist Caroline Marx says it will need to follow through ...

No trading plan yet for Dunoon rank

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The City has yet to finalise a plan for traders at the Dunoon taxi rank. Traders who run businesses from kiosks at the rank have concession letters, but it’s likely ...

Confusion over Dunoon traders’ permit payments

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Traders at the Dunoon taxi rank are confused over whether or not they should be paying for permits. They say they haven’t been paying for their kiosks since the ...

Clean-up campaign sweeps through Joe Slovo

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Hundreds of volunteers from the community and the International WeLoveU Foundation joined councillors and City cleaners on Sunday to clean up parts of Joe Slovo. ...

MyCiTi now has white of way

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White lights and symbols have replaced the traditional green, amber and red for MyCiTi buses along Blaauwberg Road, in Table View, to minimise confusion at the traffic ...