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DA slams Hawks over Cape Town councillor 'media blunder' News24 The DA has labelled a Hawks error linking a DA councillor to fraud involving the Temporary Employee Relief Scheme (TERS) , as a "smear campaign". Grose handed herself over to police on Thursday. The DA has lashed out at South Africa's Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation unit, the Hawks, after they backtracked on a statement saying DA councillor Nora Grose had allegedly misappropriated TERS funding. The Hawks initially released a statement saying they suspected Grose of involvement in defrauding Temporary Employee Relief...

Neil Mckay, who became confined to a wheelchair in a similar farm attack over 20 years ago, was found dead on Saturday morning.

DA in Knysna axes councillor for voting with rival ANC By Tshego Lepule Share Cape Town - The DA in the Knysna municipality has axed one of its councillors following allegations she voted in favour with the ANC. Lorraine Opperman, 73, was expelled from the party just three days after she voted with the ANC on a motion during a council meeting last Thursday. Opperman had only been a councillor in ward 11 for 13 months after she was elected in a by-election in December, 2019. Previously she had been a Cope member who even stood as a candidate for ward five back in the 2016 municipal elections.

Over the past two weeks, Coca-Cola Peninsula Beverages (CCPB) has been part of a humanitarian operation to bring relief to drought-stricken communities in parts of the Northern Cape. Currently, the province is one of the worst hit by an ongoing drought that has led to the death of thousands of head of livestock – the primary source of income in the area. With the smallest population in the country at 1.2 million, the Northern Cape relies largely on groundwater. According to data from the Department of Water and Sanitation, approximately 72% of the province’s towns rely on groundwater, 26%...