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As the deadline looms for social grant beneficiaries to migrate to the Postbank black cards, the MEC of Social Development Jaco Londt says his Department will do everything possible to ensure no beneficiary is left behind. Londt met with Postbank on Monday to discuss the lack of service points and adequate communication in the province. This as Postbank has committed to make many more service points available in the Western Cape. READ:
Several families are mourning their loved ones after separate road crashes in the Western Cape and Free State have left at least nineteen people dead. In the early hours of Monday morning, seven people were killed in a head-on collision on the N2 just outside Heidelberg. According to the police, the crash happened at around 4 am in dense fog about 10 kilometres outside Heidelberg in the direction of Riversdale.
In an escalation of tensions, City Traffic Officers and taxi drivers faced off again on the N2 outbound on Tuesday afternoon near Raapenberg Road. The City says an officer pulled over a taxi driver for using the shoulder of the road. According to the City, passing taxi drivers then became involved, assaulting and injuring at least three officers and stoning patrol vehicles. The MMC for Safety and Security JP Smith says the
The high-profile trial surrounding the disappearance of six-year-old Joslin Smith continued today in the High Court, with two police officers testifying in Saldanha Bay. The case, which has gripped the nation, revolves around the child’s mysterious vanishing from her home in the Middelpos Informal Settlement last February. Despite extensive search efforts, Joslin remains missing. The two police constables who initially responded to the matter of the missing child; Constable Yanga Gongotha and
Tensions in the mini-bus taxi industry reared its head today, after a video of a traffic officer placing a taxi driver in a chokehold spread like wildfire on social media. The MMC for Safety and Security JP Smith says traffic officers had pulled over the driver for driving on the shoulder of the N2 incoming near Langa this morning just before 07:00, but he resisted arrest. Smith claims the chokehold was needed
