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Anger over high electricity tariffs has boiled over onto the streets as residents have participated in several protests this week, demanding the scrapping of ’unaffordable’ charges.

The hard-hit construction sector is seeking legal counsel after the City and the province cancelled tenders worth billions of rand which would have created thousands of jobs and provided a much-needed boost to the Covid-devastated economy.

The Athlone Vaccination Centre of Hope will be the first vaccination site in the Western Cape to offer both a walk-through and drive-through service.

Ashton in the Western Cape has a new super bridge and it’s the first of its kind on the continent. It’s being shifted into place this weekend.

Political lobby group, the Cape Independence Advocacy Group, wants Western Cape Premier Alan Winde to urgently hold a referendum for the province to be declared an independent state.

Western Cape head of health Dr Keith Cloete said on average, they were seeing 3,100 new infections a day and the proportion positive remained high at an average of 41%.

As the Western Cape struggles to contain the third wave, experts are already talking of a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections before the year ends.

In commemoration of Women’s Day, the Western Cape Premier’s office hosted an event in Delft, coinciding with the deployment of 191 Law Enforcement Advancement Plan (LEAP) officers on the Cape Flats.

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The Daily Vox Taxi Association Rivalry in 2021 The dispute is between the Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association (CATA) and the Congress of Democratic Taxi Association (Codeta). So far 24 people have been killed and another 29 injured. There have been significant disruptions to public transport in the Metro South-East region, Mitchell said.  Two taxi ranks in Mbekweni, certain local route loading lanes at the Bellville PTI, the long-distance facility at the Bellville PTI, the “Paint C...