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The City must take a tougher stance on those building illegally in Summer Greens, say residents there.

The South African Bone Marrow Registry is asking the public to donate items for care packs to be given to child stem-cell-transplant patients in state hospitals and their families.

You’ve got to be brave to drive around Joe Slovo Park and Phoenix with the many potholes, broken drains, overcrowding, and crime, say residents.

Ian Taylor, a household name in Cape Town football circles, led Egyptian Premier League under-19 champions, Zed FC, to their first league trophy just four years after the club’s inception.

Coach Andrew Pequeno has once again written his name in regional football history, this time with Vasco Da Gama in Parow.

The public are being invited to sleep rough for a night as part of a fund-raising drive by U-turn, a non-profit organisation that helps the homeless.

Union-Milnerton Rugby Club (UniMil) potentially orchestrated one of the most significant upsets in the Western Province Club Rugby Super League A campaign with a thrilling victory over Stellenbosch University, in Milnerton, last weekend.

The Cape Town Society for the Blind has marked 95 years of helping the blind and visually impaired find independence and support in a sighted world.

Milnerton police last week hosted a group of crime fighters and police who signed the enforcement of the new constitution for community policing forums (CPFs) and boards in the province.

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

A ghost-writer by day and book blogger and author pre-dawn, Amy Heydenrych launched her third book, Bad Luck Penny, at The Book Lounge in Roeland Street in the city centre on Thursday April 18.

Blouberg author Taryn Little-Viglino, 52, won two awards at the Cape Flats Literary Awards for her first book, And God Said…

E-hailing drivers say that they are being held hostage in parts of Milnerton by alleged taxi operators.

Close to a year after the Milnerton protest against “illegal buildings”, residents say they received little to no help and are threatening a rates boycott.

Milnerton police are investigating a hijacking where children and their driver were forced out of a Datsun Go along School Way in Phoenix on Monday.

Melkbosstrand singer and songwriter, Luna Paige, is celebrating the release of two new full-length albums, Dis die dors and Harmony, last Friday, April 12.

Melkbosstrand singer and songwriter, Luna Paige, is celebrating the release of two new full-length albums, Dis die dors and Harmony, last Friday, April 12.

A community hero has sounded a call for action as burglaries and robberies continue to plague Table View.

MERCIA GOHL, MILNERTON

The Killarney Gardens Property Owners’ Association, with the help of Totalsport, recently donated soccer gear and equipment to the Dunoon Youth Sporting Academy.

Stiff jabs and hard liver knee kicks are some of the tools that 19-year-old mixed martial artist, Brian Ncube, from Milnerton, packs in his fighting arsenal.

The Jive Cape Town Funny Festival which takes place at the Baxter Theatre from Monday June 10 to Sunday July 7, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.

Following her sold-out season last year, Daily Maverick associate editor, Marianne Thamm, returns to the Baxter Studio, with her show, Round of Applause Reloaded, from Wednesday April 10 to Saturday April 27, at 8pm, with Saturday matinees, at 3pm.

The Jive Cape Town Funny Festival which takes place at the Baxter Theatre from Monday June 10 to Sunday July 7, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.

Peter Shaffer’s classic play Amadeus, starring Alan Committie as Antonio Salieri, runs at Theatre on the Bay from Friday April 12 to Saturday May 18.

The Jive Cape Town Funny Festival which takes place at the Baxter Theatre from Monday June 10 to Sunday July 7, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.

Messages of condolences are still pouring in for soccer star Luke Fleurs, 24, who was killed during a hijacking in Johannesburg last week.

Internationally acclaimed, South African-born actress and director, Dame Janet Suzman, will be in conversation with Shakespeare specialist, Professor Chris Thurman, at The Baxter, on Saturday April 13, from 5.30pm to 6.30pm.

Star Western Province athlete, Naeem Jack, 16, from Ottery, walked away with double gold from Athletics South Africa’s Youth and Junior national championships, held at Pilditch Stadium in Pretoria a fortnight ago. A former pupil at Mondale High, he spent last season with Boland Athletics as he transferred to Paarl Boys’ High School, before returning to Western Province this season. The lanky teen,

The Endellion Theatre Company will present the West End and Broadway hit, Tell Me On A Sunday, from Wednesday April 24 to Sunday April 28 at the Avalon Auditorium, District Six Homecoming Centre, corner Caledon and Buitenkant Streets, District Six.