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Security company PPA told MPs they were hired to protect Clifton residents properties because SAPS had failed to do. (Rodger Bosch/AFP)
ANC

Politics take centre stage at Clifton Parly inquiry

Monday’s parliamentary meeting descended into political point-scoring between ANC and opposition MPs

  • Lester Kiewit
3 min read
The Clifton fourth beach became a theatre of the absurd, a reality TV show and a microcosm of the problems besetting our large, beautiful country. (Rodger Bosch/AFP)
CAPE TOWN

Drawing a line in the sand on racism

The Clifton fourth beach debacle shows up many of our moral ambiguities

  • Mia Swart
5 min read
Black sheep: Private security firm PPA is encroaching on the police’s remit, say critics. (Rodger Bosch/AFP)
CAPE TOWN

Clifton beach security company ‘eff’d’ up again’ — City

The security company ‘effed up again’, says a councillor as the City of Cape Town complains to the regulator about the beach debacle

  • Lester Kiewit
7 min read
The city has launched an investigation and urged persons who may have felt threatened or intimated by the security guards to call its emergency hotline or report to the police. (Image via ppa247.co.za)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

City of CT to act against security company, #ReclaimClifton protesters

Beach-goers were told to leave Clifton beach by PPA guards last Sunday, two days before Christmas

  • Sarah Evans
2 min read
The city has launched an investigation and urged persons who may have felt threatened or intimated by the security guards to call its emergency hotline or report to the police. (Image via ppa247.co.za)
ADAM CATZAVELOS

Race row erupts after guards allegedly clear Cape Town beach of black people

Mayor of Cape Town Dan Plato dismisses claims by PPA security firm that it was working for the city authorities

  • Agency
2 min read
Onlookers walk past a stranded Taiwanese fishing trawler off Cape Town’s Clifton beach on May 12.
CLIFTON

Tide turns on stranded Cape Town trawler

Attempts to salvage a 50m-long fishing trawler that was stranded off Clifton beach in Cape Town have been hampered, largely by low tides.

  • Sapa
2 min read
A 50m Japanese fishing trawler runs aground at First Beach in Clifton
CAPE TOWN

Crew at risk as fishing trawler runs aground in Clifton

Crew still aboard a 50m Japanese fishing trawler that has run aground in Clifton are at risk as fog and rising tides hamper rescue operations.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
CLIFTON

Butterfield ‘took oompa out of the tuba’

Don Butterfield, a tuba player who performed with such stars as Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Sinatra and whose work can be heard on The Godfather: Part II, has died at age 83.…

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read