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  After 12 days of lockout and a strike by FlySafair pilots, an agreement has finally been reached through the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) settlement proposal.   This brings the longest pilot strike and lockout in South African history to an end.   The Deputy General Secretary of Solidarity, Helgard Cronjé, says this is the closest the parties could come to a middle ground, and there are no winners in this process.  

  Nearly 40 Home Affairs officials have been arrested over the last year for offences ranging from fraud to sexual.   In the latest takedown, the Department of Home Affairs has confirmed that it dismissed a further five officials, with immediate effect, for offences ranging from fraud to sexual assault on Monday.   This follows on the crackdown on a passport syndicate in Durban last month, where two officials and three members of the public were

      Cape Town’s cycling community is mourning, after veteran cyclist Dennis Hammar died days after coming under attack on the N1 highway.   76-year-old Hammar was cycling from Paarden Eiland towards FW De Klerk Boulevard on Sunday morning when he was pushed off his bicycle and robbed of his cellphone by an unknown assailant. The suspect fled the scene.   As such, police initially opened a robbery case.   “An unidentified male pushed

  The missing teen from Valhalla Park has been found and reunited with her family.   An urgent search has been launched for 16-year-old Raeesa Nixon, after she failed to show up at school on Monday morning.   Later that same day, she reportedly contacted a friend saying she was in Cape Town and didn’t have money to return home.   Her family had searched the CBD area but could not find her.   The

  A legal battle is brewing over the City of Cape Town’s new municipal tariffs, with both the South African Property Owners Association (SAPOA) and a major coalition of ratepayer associations challenging their legality.   SAPOA, which represents commercial and industrial property owners, filed papers in the Western Cape High Court in mid-July, asking for three of the City’s newly introduced charges to be reviewed and set aside.   The application targets:   The city-wide