17 initiates die in Eastern Cape

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Careless traditional nurses and illegal circumcisions have been cited as among the reasons for the deaths of 17 initiates during the Eastern Cape summer
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GBV bill at last passed

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Civil rights organisations and gender-based violence (GBV) activists have expressed relief as the National Assembly unanimously passed the “long overdue” National ...

Sex pest teacher sacked

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A Grassy Park primary school teacher who tickled or touched four girls’ near their breasts has been fired for sexual misconduct.

JP Smith: Home ‘visits’ for outstanding fines ad warrants are here to stay

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Those who have been ignoring their traffic fines will have nowhere to hide as they have now begun tracing operations and are enforcing Warrants of Arrest.

Call for ‘capable’ Metrorail chief

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Lobby groups have urged that the next Western Cape Metrorail regional manager be a person of integrity and with the drive to get the train service back on track. ...

Anger as teen’s ‘rapists’ are still free

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A Khayelitsha family is calling on police to arrest a group of teenage boys who allegedly gang-raped their daughter.

‘Rapist’ athlete busted

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An angry community in Philippi East demolished the home of a well-known athlete accused of raping a 12-year-old girl over a period of two years.

Charred body is found

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Residents in Stellenbosch are reeling in shock after the charred remains of a young girl, who has yet to be identified, were found in Kayamandi.

Warder attacked by 50 inmates at Pollsmoor prison

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Correctional Services Department spokesperson said the offenders called him under the pretence of needing to be urgently helped, before attacking him.

Search on for missing Philippi boys

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Friends Aviwe Tofile, 8, and Siyabonga Jali, 9, were reported to be together when they went missing on Monday at about 11am.

Eskom blamed after pregnant mom and three children perish in Khayelitsha fire

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Grieving Khayelitsha residents and relatives have blamed Eskom for the death of a pregnant mother and her three children.

450 Western Cape pupils remain unplaced

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Halfway through the school year, placement woes still plague the Western Cape Education Department.

Students erect shacks at CPUT over accommodation woes

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Disgruntled CPUT students erected makeshift structures at the institution?s Bellville campus to protest against a shortage of accommodation.

Taxi driver hijacked in Grassy Park

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Police have launched a search for two suspects who allegedly hijacked a 42-year-old driver for an e-hailing app in Grassy Park at the weekend.

'Taxify driver robbed, attacked by Manenberg residents'

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A Manenberg pastor came to the rescue of a Taxify driver who had apparently been attacked and robbed by his passengers.

13 arrested after shootout at Philippi church

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A suspect was wounded in a shootout with the police when he and his 12 accomplices allegedly attempted to rob a Philippi East church.

Central line to reopen next week

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Acting Prasa CEO Cromet Molepo said a technical team from Johannesburg would collaborate with the Cape Town team to get the line running again.

Four staff members attacked on Northern line

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Members of Untu threatened to stop services on the Northern line after an attack on a 35-year-old ticket control officer and three of her colleagues.

No extra buses for Metrorail commuters

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There will be no additional Golden Arrow buses during peak hours after the company?s agreement with Metrorail to ferry Central Line commuters.

Buckle up and be safe on road - AA

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The Automobile Association (AA) has warned motorists not to be flippant when it comes to the lives of children during the festive season.

Wynberg Park fenced in

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Residents in Wynberg and elsewhere on the Cape Flats are furious about a fence being erected around popular green lung Wynberg Park.

'It appears the baby had been kept in a freezer'

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Dirt collectors made a grisly discovery in Strand, Cape Town, on Tuesday afternoon, finding the frozen body of an infant dumped in the trash.

Business urged to beware of festive season crime

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Authorities and businesses are bracing themselves for the festive season because it is also the time when criminals make merry.

WATCH: CPUT Cape Town campus burns during protest

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A group of protesters, believed to be students, disrupted exams, emptied rubbish bins and lit fires on and around the Cape Town campus of CPUT.

#HelicopterCrash - Witnesses describe 'gruesome' scene

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Nosisa Majeke rushed to the scene of the helicopter crash in Lwandle to see if anyone survived, but all she could see were body parts scattered everywhere.