Concern over rising suicide attempts among teenagers has led the City of Cape Town to bolster its mental health and suicide prevention response. The City reports that 24 children under the age of 18 were treated for suicide attempts in the 2024/2025 financial year, compared to 18 in the previous year. Mayoral Committee Member for Community Safety and Health, Franchine Higham, says mental health screening for under-18s increased significantly, from 417 in
Residents in parts of Muizenberg are living in fear as gang-related shootings continue to plague neighbourhoods, including Village Heights in Hillview and Vrygrond. The latest violence comes as Cape Town awaits the imminent deployment of the South African military to assist in stabilising gang-affected communities. ALSO READ: Mixed reactions as SANDF to be deployed to gang-plagued areas – Smile 90.4FM On Tuesday afternoon, two people were shot and wounded in Village Heights,
SA Canegrowers has called for urgent, high-level government intervention to stabilise South Africa’s struggling sugar industry, warning that thousands of jobs and rural economies are at risk if immediate action is not taken. In a statement released on Friday, the industry body, which represents about 27,000 small-scale and 1,100 large-scale sugarcane growers, confirmed it has formally written to President Cyril Ramaphosa and several Cabinet ministers requesting coordinated support to address what it
An unusual visitor from Antarctica has been spotted along the Cape’s coastline this week. A female crabeater seal, a species seldom seen in South African waters, was initially sighted at Baden Powell Drive and later in the Strand area. The Two Oceans Aquarium Wildlife Team quickly sprang into action, following reports of the first sightings, launching a collaborative response to ensure the safety of both seal and humans alike. The Aquarium says
President Cyril Ramaphosa has strongly defended Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), saying economic transformation remains essential to correcting the injustices of apartheid and reducing inequality in South Africa. Speaking during his reply to the State of the Nation Address (SONA) debate in Parliament, Ramaphosa criticised calls to scrap BEE, arguing that the country’s Constitution requires deliberate action to address historical exclusion. “We cannot do that without transforming our economy,” Ramaphosa said. “It
