The Health Department says test results for a Western Cape resident who was tested for hantavirus last week have returned negative. The individual was one of four people from the province who travelled on the same Airlink flight as the Dutch woman who later died in Johannesburg from hantavirus-related complications in late April. Ten passengers on the flight are from Gauteng, with one displaying symptoms. The test results from this individual are
The President is facing growing political pressure, with calls for his resignation mounting. This follows last week’s Constitutional Court decision that prima facie evidence of alleged wrongdoing by the president in the Phala Phala scandal warrants an investigation, contrary to what the National Assembly had decided in 2022. READ MORE: ConCourt orders Parliament to revisit Ramaphosa impeachment process over Phala Phala – Smile 90.4FM Since that ruling, the EFF, which had brought the case to court with the ATM party,
The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has confirmed that schools in parts of the Cape Winelands Education District, as well as selected schools in the Eden and Central Karoo District, will be closed on Monday, 11 May 2026, due to severe weather conditions and storm-related access problems. The closures follow consultations between the WCED, the Provincial Disaster Management Centre and the South African Weather Service. Cape Winelands Education District Circuit 3 Alfred
The Head of Disaster Management in the Western Cape, Colin Deiner, has confirmed that the severe weather experienced over large parts of the province and the country since 4 May has been classified as a National Disaster. Deiner says they received the classification from the National Disaster Risk Management Centre late yesterday, 9 May. Heavy rainfall, flooding, thunderstorms, damaging winds and snowfall have caused widespread destruction, loss of life, damage to infrastructure
By Christina Pitt for Spotlight The Western Cape health department is ramping up its workforce with 800 new frontline posts. After years of austerity and with long lists of vacancies, questions now turn to how soon the new posts will translate into staff on the ground. The Western Cape health department is adding more than 800 staff to frontline and support services in a bid to strengthen a health system in which
