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Jenni Evans, News24 The poo smell over Cape Towns Milnerton and Table View should start fading as a dispute over the contract to remove the sludge has been resolved. The smell will continue for a few days while the pile of sludge is collected. The City of Cape Town hopes this will begin by the end of the week. The overwhelming smell of poo over Cape Towns Milnerton and Table View should start fading soon as the dispute over the contract to remove the sludge has been resolved, the City of Cape T...

24-hour counselling helpline available for traumatized healthcare workers 26 January 2021 7:35 AM Share This: Healthcare workers say they are traumatised, exhausted, and demoralised while watching frightened patients and colleagues die. Every day there are stories of the pressure and challenges being faced by healthcare workers on the Covid-19 frontline. Recently EWN spoke to a number of doctors and nurses who said Daphne Whittaker from the Community Intervention Centre joined Breakfast with R...

Deur Kailin Daniels @K10daniels 20 Januarie 2021 06:23 The waste spotted at the Erica Road outlet grid. Fuming residents have taken their concerns to social media last week after waste was spotted at the Erica Road outlet grid in Table View. The waste, which has been labelled as a health hazard by residents in the Milnerton and Table View areas, has since been removed from the outlet grid. However, how the waste ended up in the grid is still unkn...

The fiancée of a man initially thought to have committed suicide has appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on a charge of murder.

[PHOTOS] Capetonians needed to help feed 1,700 rescued cormorant chicks 18 January 2021 1:29 PM Share This: SANCCOBs Research ManagerDr Katta Ludynia explains how the rescue from Robben Island came about and how the public can help. On Tuesday, 12 January 2021, over 600 abandoned Cape cormorant chicks were rescued from Robben Island. The joint project was executed by the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB) , Robben Island Museum (RIM), SANCCOB, Two Oceans...

168 weekly newspaper. South Africa was 19 days into the beach and river ban for declared hotspot areas, as of 16 January. Beach towns are the epicentre of both the summer and the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The major beaches were quiet and all but deserted when Daily Maverick toured the Cape Peninsula on Wednesday. Even the waves of Muizenberg, Cape Town’s surf hub, were abandoned, leaving Muizies eerily still and the surf shops closed to surf lessons and board hire. Craig Paul, co...

Tableview stink due to wastewater sludge build-up as no tender in place yet 14 January 2021 8:59 AM Share This: City of Cape Town says it is covering, liming and applying odour suppressant to the sludge stockpile on a daily basis at Potsdam. The CapeTalk Breakfast Show has been receiving complaints about a very foul smell blowing over the suburbs of Tableview and Parklands, emanating from the Potsdam sewage treatment facility. Residents are saying that they cannot open their windows at all and...

The quick reaction and vigilance of the Flying Squad stopped seven suspects in their tracks when a possible robbery of a cigarette delivery vehicle was foiled on the N7 near Table View yesterday. The members reacted on information that a robbery was planned and the area was searched. This searched led the members to the […]

CT man with visual impairment starts crowd-funding campaign for new braille tech 13 January 2021 2:03 PM Share This: Capetonian Kyle Williams has put out a public appeal for donations towards buying braille technology that could improve his life drastically. When he was 13-yeards-old, Kyle Williams was diagnosed with micro prolactinoma which had resulted in optic atrophy leaving him with permanent low vision. He studied at the Athlone School For The Blind in Bellville where he had matriculated ...

NSRI helps rescue Cape cormorant chicks from Robben Island By Theolin Tembo Share Cape Town - After a large number of Cape cormorant chicks were apparently abandoned on Robben Island and left to fend for themselves, the NSRI Table Bay crew were called in to assist at the request of Sanccob (Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds). Pat van Eyssen, NSRI Table Bay duty coxswain, said they were called at around 11am on Tuesday to assist in an ongoing rescue operation of C...