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The University of Cape Town's library and residences and upper campus building are currently burning as firefighters battle to contain the fire on the slopes of Table Mountain .
#capetownfire
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@armandhough
&
@Traceyleighadam
Samantha Vietri, who was doing yoga, says she was traumatized after being verbally abused by a police officer at Surfers Corner in Muizenberg this morning.
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Horror as raped teen's body found in grandmother's yard with head bashed in
The half-naked body of a 14-year-old girl from Heinz Park was found in her grandmother's backyard on Sunday morning.
PICS | As part of its EFF 10th Anniversary, EFF President Julius Malema, accompanied by several high ranking members of the party visited the Alakana home for the children in Malmesbury to donate R100 000.
Pictures: Phando Jikelo/African News Agency(ANA)
@CourtneyAfrica
The Duchess of Sussex added a headscarf to her outfit before heading into the Auwal Mosque in Bo-Kaap on Heritage Day. Built in 1794 during British occupation of the Cape of Good Hope, Auwal Mosque is the first and oldest mosque in SA.
#RoyalVisitSouthAfrica
#SussexRoyalTour
Suspended Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has congratulated her lawyer, senior counsel Dali Mpofu, and her legal team for securing a judgment in her favour.
PICS| A Drag performing artist named Stella Rose walked over the rainbow pedestrian crossing in defiance of Mehmet Vefa Dag's threats towards the LGBTQ+ community.
Mehmet Vefa Dag who is known as the President of the Truth and Solidarity Movement Party.
Students from CPUT District Six campus, led by the CPUT EFF Student Command (EFFSC) marched to the NSFAS offices to hand over a memorandum of “grievances”.
Police are fighting an endless battle to get illegal firearms off the street, for as soon as they confiscate guns, those guns find themselves on the streets again because of corrupt cops.
70-year-old Langa gogo is growing food, jobs and dignity in her community
by
@Mtuzeli
A food garden project led by 70-year-old Nompumelelo Ngoqo in Langa has become a primary source of food and employment for thousands of residents in the area.
Unknown patient at
#TygerbergHospital
Tygerberg Hospital is looking for the family of a confused male patient, registered as Jan Adams.
He was admitted on the 11th of September 2018. He is unable to provide any contact details, names or addresses of family members and friends.
A team of doctors and surgeons from the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital (RCWMCH) and Groote Schuur Hospital are beaming after a successful operation – the first heart transplant on a minor in 13 years.
The Western Cape Education Department has revealed that it might be taking legal action against the consultant firm that conducted a diversity intervention at Fish Hoek High School last month.
Remembering
#UyineneMrwetyana
Today marks two years since the brutal rape and murder of 19-year-old UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana. In her memory, people have been tying brightly coloured ribbons at the Clarenreich Post Office in Claremont this morning.
Picture:
@SISONKE_MD
#PrideMonth
: I am Sloan. Grab my hand
"Being a proud queer person feels like making it to the top of a mountain and being able to look down at how far I've come," writes Sloan Burton - the first in our
#MyQueerLife
series.
WATCH | Even Cape Town’s marine life are trying to get some of the city’s festive cheer this year as Santa the Seal brought laughter to those sitting in traffic in Jakes Gerwel Drive this morning while crossing the busy intersection in Athlone.
Videos: Supplied/SPCA
Elections 2024: Democratic Alliance (
@Our_DA
) federal chairperson Helen Zille cast her special vote this morning at Pinelands High School.
Picture: Ayanda Ndamane / Independent Newspapers
#PrideMonth
: Being bisexual is not a phase, and it’s not a choice
"Although I have still encountered homophobia and biphobia this year, I have reached a point in my life where I know that I am who I am," writes
@lukewaltham
in our
#MyQueerLife
series.
Police Minister Bheki Cele has been found guilty of breaching the Ethics Code of Conduct when he shouted at Action Society's Ian Cameron at a community meeting last year.
Tygerberg Hospital School to keep young patients learning
by
@MwangiGithahu
Tygerberg Hospital offers a unique opportunity for children with childhood cancer to continue their education through the Tygerberg Hospital School.
The Belhar Blitz, sprint champion and gold medalist Luke Davids, still can't come to terms with the fact that he's the fastest teen in the world. Video:
@michewanders
City of Cape Town officials and Disaster risk management teams are removing a 7 metre humpback whale from a beach near Melkbos Strand after it washed out in the early hours of this morning.
From barefoot schoolboy to a PhD
by
@IamAthinaMay
With just R2.50 in his pocket, Thuli Mthembu moved to Cape Town from a settlement in Mpumalanga to register for a degree in occupational therapy at UWC.
WCED has kept Western Cape pupils 'fed throughout lockdown'
by
@SISONKE_MD
Education MEC Debbie Schäfer said the Western Cape was the only province able to feed pupils at schools during the lockdown, serving more than 2 million meals.
Paxton gets honest about
@IdolsSA
and the challenges of making her debut album
by
@thelionmutters
“This journey has been very difficult, but it’s been one that I’ve grown so much from. Not only as a person, but also as an artist," says
@paxtonmusicsa
.
COLUMN:
@UrbanLo
writes that there is an immaturity in our political leadership. He says that to see party conflicts play out like playground fights, reeks of immaturity, and to see a president and his party imploding in full view of the nation is tragic.
Eerste River mom becomes SA's first female Audi master technician
Like Michelle Rodriguez's character in The Fast and the Furious, Chelsea van Wyk is eager to learn, always willing to try out new things, and goes the extra mile for her customers.
#RoyalVisitSouthAfrica
He was met at Kalk Bay Harbour by the UK Defence Adviser, Colonel Alan Lister OBE of the Royal Marines.
Picture:
@CourtneyAfrica
/African News Agency
#RoyalVisitSouthAfrica
The boat travelled to Seal Island, an abalone poaching hot spot. Abalone, a type of sea snail, is now at critically low levels because of over-exploitation and poaching.
Picture: Courtney Africa/African News Agency
PICS: Multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning band Imagine Dragons performed a stellar show to tens of thousands at the DHL Stadium in Cape Town on Wednesday.
Picture: Ayanda Ndamane/African News Agency
"One of Manenberg's young bright stars is ready to conquer the world, and in six months time he will be jetting off to Norway to further his studies.
Cohen Charles, 22, is due to graduate next month with a BA degree in Linguistics at UWC."
OPINION: Mayor
@geordinhl
writes that he is pleased that far more people in the Western Cape support’s the call for devolving much more power to the City of Cape Town than supporting a call for Cape independence.
A former Transnet executive must pay back R26 million he used to buy six properties worth R15.2m in eight months and 36 cars in just over a year through the proceeds of unlawful activities.
#transnet
#payback
#money
The CCID mission to clean up its busy precinct has begun to pay off, with over 1 225 tonnes of litter and illegally dumped waste removed from the streets in town.
Two men from Paarl in the Western Cape have every reason to smile as they make their way to the United States after signing with a professional basketball team.
Former Cape Town mayor
@PatriciaDeLille
has been vindicated yet again in the investigation into the upgrades at her private home as the City found that no single person could be held responsible, writes
@JasonFelix
via
@IOL
@CourtneyAfrica
Onlookers await the arrival of the Duke and Duchess in the Bo-Kaap today on Heritage Day for the
#RoyalVisitSouthAfrica
.
Video: Courtney Africa/African News Agency(ANA)
WATCH | Multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning band
@Imaginedragons
performed a stellar show to tens of thousands at the DHL Stadium in Cape Town on Wednesday.
Video: Ayanda Ndamane/African News Agency
We're giving away tickets to the
@THESTORMERS
vs
@BluesRugbyTeam
at Newlands on Saturday. Like and RT this tweet to enter the draw. Winners announced at 2pm
A meeting descended into chaos after SAPS minister Bheki Cele shouted at Action Society’s Ian Cameron to shut up. Action Society says they will lay a charge with Ipid.
#IanCameron
Over 100 international journalists in Cape Town for Duke and Duchess of Sussex
by
@MwangiGithahu
More than 100 international journalists arrived in Cape Town to cover Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s
#RoyalVisitSouthAfrica
.
#SussexRoyalTour
Efforts to contain the fire are still under way.
The public is advised that any donations should be dropped off at the Roeland Street fire station. Donations of water, Energade, energy bars and Eye Gene eye drops are encouraged.
Video:
@armandhough
/
@AfriNewsAgency
The well-known South African flag building located at the top of Long Street has in the Cape CBD been painted with a Springbok ahead of their trophy tour on Monday.
Picture:
@d7e7r7
/
@AfriNewsAgency
#SpringbokTrophyTour
#EveryDropCounts
: Dam levels are now at 29,8%
Dam levels have increased solidly by 5,8% as a result of the good rainfall received especially in the catchment areas and overall levels are now at 29,8%.
SANDF oryx helicopters collecting water at a reservoir to fight the Table Mountain fire which has been burning for three days.
#CapeTownFires
Video:
@henkpix
/
@AfriNewsAgency
Arabic roots of Afrikaans laid bare in new book
by
@yazkam
Research into early Afrikaans by the late Bo-Kaap historian Achmat Davids has been revived in a new book that debunks stereotypes about the language