Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has officially handed over the City’s flagship Salt River Market site for the construction of 970 inner-city affordable housing units by developer Communicare. The development will include 300 social housing rental units and 670 affordable market units and is among four inner-city sites where construction is set to begin this year. In total, over 3,000 affordable units are set to be built this year, including over 1,500
Another teenage girl has been killed in Atlantis, three months after a similar incident in the region. On Saturday, a 15-year-old girl was shot and killed after being caught in crossfire in Sherwood Park. A 48-year-old was injured in that shooting. Detectives in Atlantis confirmed that no arrests have been made at this stage, as a murder and attempted murder docket is being investigated. The local Community Policing Forum (CPF) said the
Imagine your daughter comes to you, looking down in shame. She tells you she has to miss a whole week of school. This is the heartbreaking reality of period poverty in South Africa—a crisis that forces millions of young girls to sacrifice their education every single month. She isn’t sick. She wants to learn. But her body is doing what it naturally does, and you simply cannot afford pads. As a parent,
The Commissioner of the Border Management Authority (BMA), Dr Michael Masiapato, has confirmed that 663 Ghanaian nationals were repatriated from South Africa to Ghana over the weekend. On Saturday, a group of 332 Ghanaian nationals was brought to OR Tambo International Airport by the Ghanaian High Commission in Pretoria for repatriation. According to the BMA, of the travellers processed, 170 were travelling on Ghanaian ordinary passports, while 162 were using Emergency Travel
Cape Town learners are getting an early look at how the City plans to secure its future water supply through an educational programme reaching schools across the metro. The City’s water awareness initiative has already visited more than 95 schools this year. During a recent visit to Kommetjie Primary School, learners were introduced to the New Water Programme and learned about water reuse, desalination and other projects designed to reduce dependence on rainfall.
