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  Two Western Cape sites have been declared as provincial Heritage Sites – the Blombos Cave in the Blombosfontein Nature Reserve, Southern Cape and the Elandsfontein Fossil Dune Site on the West Coast. “Both these heritage sites contain important evidence of life from previous years and with their declaration as Provincial Heritage Sites, we are ensuring that they will still be kept preserved for years to come”, says  Anroux Marais, Western Cape MEC for Cultural

  Shrieks of joy can now be heard on Atlantis’ dunes over weekends as kids from this notorious gangland area flock to be part of some healthy fun in the sun. Youngsters from this area seem to be embracing an initiative by Capetonian Tessa Bredenkamp, who has established a sandboarding club to keep them off the streets and brighten their lives. Large parts of Atlantis are known for gangsterism and violence and Tessa, who has

Cape Town’s fastest growing radio station, Smile 90.4FM, announced a new addition to the on air team. Well-known radio and television personality, Bailey Schneider, will move in behind the mic with Maurice Carpede on Smile Drive. The girl with the golden voice and infectious laugh started her radio career at the age of 17 when she joined RAU radio, before moving on to Johannesburg’s commercial airwaves in 2004. “I am so incredibly excited to be

  Xenophobia is an expression of a terrible failure of memory. We are forgetting the long years of struggle against ethnic and related forms of identity mobilisation.  We are forgetting the support given by the peoples of the African continent to the struggle against apartheid.  And we are forgetting the legacies of liberation stalwarts like Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada and many other veterans of the struggle.   The Nelson Mandela Foundation, Ahmed Kathrada Foundation and

  “Today we can shine a light of hope in the darkness brought about by substance abuse”. That’s the word from mayor Patricia de Lille who opened the city’s latest treatment centre for drug and alcohol abuse today. The new facility, Matrix Clinic in Manenberg, forms part of a R37.8 million investment by the City of Cape Town to combat substance abuse in the metro this year. De Lille announced that 8 122 people have