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Western Cape

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/ 23 February 2012

Richard Majola elected speaker of W Cape legislature

The DA’s Richard Majola has been voted in as the new speaker of the Western Cape legislature, replacing Shahid Esau, who has joined Parliament..

By Staff Reporter
Cope Western Cape leader charges Lekota with fraud
Article
/ 5 February 2012

Cope Western Cape leader charges Lekota with fraud

A fraud case has been opened against Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota, days after he suspended the party’s treasurer for alleged financial mismanagement.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 17 January 2012

Poachers kill rhino bull near Mossel Bay

Rhino poachers have once again struck in the Western Cape, killing a bull on a private farm near Mossel Bay and stripping it of both its horns.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 6 January 2012

Death in custody raises alarm

Suspicion surrounds the circumstances that led to a man under arrest dying in hospital.

By Glynnis Underhill
Zille’s Aids testing incentive campaign angers YCL
Article
/ 4 December 2011

Zille’s Aids testing incentive campaign angers YCL

The Young Communist League has dubbed Western Cape premier Helen Zille’s campaign of offering incentives to people testing for HIV/Aids as immoral.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 2 December 2011

Ex-NPA official held for R13-million tender fraud

An ex-NPA employee has been arrested for alleged tender fraud, involving a contract for guarding and special services.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 15 November 2011

Twenty killed in Karoo minibus, truck crash

Twenty people have died following an accident involving two minibuses and a truck in the Karoo on Tuesday morning, Western Cape police say.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 18 October 2011

Storm over prison staff demographics in W Cape

Senior Western Cape officials are taking the correctional services department to court, saying they have been denied promotions because of their race.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 2 September 2011

Mining threat to Ramsar wetland

Locals are objecting to prospecting rights granted to a BEE company ‘with no mining experience at all’.

By Yolandi Groenewald
Strikers ask premier for help in wage war
Article
/ 19 August 2011

Strikers ask premier for help in wage war

While municipal workers in Gauteng were asking the premier to intervene in wage negotiations, strikers in Cape Town were denied permission to march.

By Staff Reporter
Zille: Sunday Times ‘used by someone with axe to grind’
Article
/ 17 August 2011

Zille: Sunday Times ‘used by someone with axe to grind’

Someone "with an axe to grind" used the <i>Sunday Times</i> newspaper to create a scandal in the Western Cape, premier Helen Zille says.

By Staff Reporter
Zille responds to Twitter furore
Article
/ 10 August 2011

Zille responds to Twitter furore

After a public spat with singer Simphiwe Dana, DA leader Helen Zille says that the social platform Twitter can be as troublesome as it is useful.

By Nickolaus Bauer
Please free us from the Cape Party
Article
/ 17 June 2011

Please free us from the Cape Party

The Cape Party, with its quixotic attempt to have the Western Cape secede, operates in a fine tradition of civic blindness, writes <b>Chris Roper</b>.

By Chris Roper
Sex, booze, illiteracy spell doom for SA’s youth, says Malema
Article
/ 14 June 2011

Sex, booze, illiteracy spell doom for SA’s youth, says Malema

Unprotected sex, alcohol abuse and illiteracy are destroying the future of the country’s youth, says ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema.

By Staff Reporter
It’s our party — we’ll secede if we want to
Article
/ 10 June 2011

It’s our party — we’ll secede if we want to

Which party wants the Western Cape to secede from South Africa? Hint: it’s not the DA.

By Samantha Steele
Zille shifts Plato into Western Cape cabinet
Article
/ 30 May 2011

Zille shifts Plato into Western Cape cabinet

Western Cape premier Helen Zille says she has appointed ex-Cape Town mayor Dan Plato as the minister for community safety in her provincial cabinet.

By Staff Reporter
Coalitions: ‘DA will be much more cautious this time’
Article
/ 27 May 2011

Coalitions: ‘DA will be much more cautious this time’

Coalition rule in Cape Town was the first major step in the DA’s move into government. But the party is treading more carefully this time around.

By Mandy Rossouw
New species of jumping cockroach discovered in Cape
Article
/ 26 May 2011

New species of jumping cockroach discovered in Cape

A new species of cockroach, the world’s only known jumping cockroach, has been discovered in the middle of Cape Town’s Table Mountain National Park.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 18 May 2011

Cape Town man dies while waiting to vote

A 53-year old voter died of a heart attack while waiting in a queue to vote in Tafelsig on the Cape Flats on Wednesday afternoon.

By Glynnis Underhill
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Article
/ 13 May 2011

New revelations in mineral rights controversy

Mineral Resources official in "close personal relationship" with controversial mine bids businessman.

By Lionel Faull
Public service, above all
Article
/ 13 May 2011

Public service, above all

A small ANC-led district municipality in the Western Cape has many satisfied residents, writes <b>Lynley Donnelly</b>.

By Lynley Donnelly
Rasool on the rebound
Article
/ 21 April 2011

Rasool on the rebound

Disgraced ANC politician, Ebrahim Rasool, lands on his feet in his new role as ambassador to the United States.

By Sean Christie
Motlanthe: ANC focuses on W Cape, not Cape Town
Article
/ 6 April 2011

Motlanthe: ANC focuses on W Cape, not Cape Town

The ANC is not likely to win Cape Town in the coming elections, but will look to do well elsewhere in the Western Cape, it said on Wednesday.

By Staff Reporter
Stay of eviction victory for residents
Article
/ 1 April 2011

Stay of eviction victory for residents

The threat of mass evictions has been lifted from residents of Cape Town’s Joe Slovo informal settlement.

By Kwanele Sosibo and Niren Tolsi
‘Give us back our candidate’
Article
/ 25 March 2011

‘Give us back our candidate’

Changes to ward councillor lists are a growing headache for the ANC in the Western Cape.

By Glynnis Underhill
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Article
/ 23 March 2011

ANC members storm Western Cape offices

Disgruntled members of the ANC stormed the party’s provincial offices on Tuesday over selection of candidates in 16 wards.

By Staff Reporter
DA will not exploit Manyi’s ‘nonsense’
Article
/ 18 March 2011

DA will not exploit Manyi’s ‘nonsense’

The DA’s newly nominated candidate for mayor of Cape Town, Patricia De Lille, was not surprised when she heard Jimmy Manyi’s comments.

By Glynnis Underhill
Ehrenreich ‘ready for challenge’ of mayor
Article
/ 11 March 2011

Ehrenreich ‘ready for challenge’ of mayor

Cosatu’s Western Cape provincial secretary, Tony Ehrenreich believes the Democratic Alliance has reason to be concerned.

By Glynnis Underhill
Keeping the standards high
Article
/ 7 March 2011

Keeping the standards high

Attention to detail, self-discipline and good teaching
add up to a good academic record, writes <b>Yazeed Kamaldien</b>.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 28 February 2011

Weekly Kuli Roberts column to be discontinued

The weekly Kuli Roberts column in <em>Sunday World</em> will be discontinued with immediate effect, the newspaper’s editor said on Monday.

By Staff Reporter
Prime site ‘bargain’ on hold
Article
/ 28 February 2011

Prime site ‘bargain’ on hold

Bidder got it for R65-million less than the best offer but nothing has been done for five years.

By Glynnis Underhill
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Article
/ 25 February 2011

Expensively trained, nowhere to teach

Teachers trained at huge state expense could be lost to public education if the WCED does not find them teaching posts by Monday.

By Kamogelo Seekoei and David Macfarlane
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