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• Housing activists lose Tafelberg School case

  The Western Cape Government has welcomed the ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) which upheld its appeal in the case of the old Tafelberg School premises.

• Festival aims to foster connection through art

  The inaugural Love Life Festival takes place from Friday April 26 to Sunday April 28 in the village of McGregor.

• Water quality testing scrutinised

  Dr Zahid Badroodien, mayoral committee member for water and sanitation in the City of Cape Town, says they are aware of the Proteus, a real-time water quality monitoring system being used in European rivers and sea side waters.

• Library’s garden gets spruced up

  The Green Point Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association (GPRRA) is leading the effort to improve the garden at the Colin Eglin Library in Sea Point.

• Old office furniture gets new life as artworks

  An exhibition showcasing artworks made from old office furniture was on at Makers Landing at the V&A Waterfront over the weekend.

• Stellar cast for Funny Festival’s silver jubilee

  A stellar cast of seasoned stand-up comics, singers, and entertainers, accompanied by international acts, is lining up to perform in the 25th anniversary edition of South Africa’s premier comedy variety show, the Jive Cape Town Funny Festival.

• Mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Justin February is preparin

  Mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Justin February is preparing to take on Durban’s Stavon Lewis for the World Muay Thai Organisation’s middleweight South African professional-amateur vacant title.

• Lighthouse standing strong for 200 years

  The Green Point lighthouse celebrated its 200th anniversary on Friday April 12, becoming the oldest lighthouse on the South African coast.

• Bo-Kaap safety under the spotlight

  It’s been a little over two months since Cameron Aberdeen, owner of Cerberus Tactical Security, shot and killed Waleed Abrahams, a Bo-Kaap resident.

• Resurfacing of Camps Bay Drive

  The City of Cape Town will be doing roadworks along Camps Bay Drive, Buitengracht Street and New Church Street, planned to take place until Wednesday May 22 at night, from 7.30pm to 5.30am, Monday to Friday.

Featured documents

• Slave Church’s untold stories

  The descendants of the families who made up the congregation of the first official Slave Church in Long Street – now the South African Sendinggestig Museum – are on a mission to make the space a “live” museum, incorporating the stories of their families....

• CID is the acronym for a City Improvement District, a non-pr

  CID is the acronym for a City Improvement District, a non-profit entity accountable to residents of a demarcated area. Residents agree to an additional levy that is collected by the City of Cape Town and paid over to the CID to be spent in accordance with a business plan and budget approved by the...

• Dagga Party supports cannabis market

  Aformer Sea Point news anchor, Eben Jansen, is contesting Ward 115 for the Dagga Party....

• Councillors share plans for 2022

  Councillors for wards 54 and 77, Nicola Jowell and Francine Higham, have highlighted some of the challenges that they will face in 2022. Both councillors have submitted their Integrated Development Plan (IDP) requests to the City of Cape Town, a five -year plan that they can be gauged on during...

• ‘Long live the values embodied by Desmond Tutu’

  An exhibition dedicated to the late anti-Apartheid Struggle icon and human rights activist, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, was launched on Thursday March 24 at the Old Granary building in Canterbury Street....

• Theatre relaunched

  The old Fugard Theatre will open its doors again, this time as part of a bigger Homecoming Centre, which will include the District Six Museum, the current District Six Homecoming Centre and the office space above....

• Formula E race on track

  The Atlantic seaboard is raring to go for Africa’s first Formula E championship race on Saturday....

• Voters brave the rain to make their mark

  Voting in wards 54 and 77 went off smoothly in Monday’s local government elections despite the rain and wind that swept across the Atlantic seaboard during the morning....

• Pupils talk about the long road back to school

  When lockdown restrictions enforced remote learning for school pupils, they were faced with many new challenges – one of them, however, was not the daily commute to school....

• ‘Don’t let the free South Africa die with us’

  A book launch by the national Department of Military Veterans (DMV), together with the Castle of Good Hope and author Professor Gertrude Fester has started a conversation about the forgotten stories of struggle activists, and how they can be recorded....