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South Africa: Premier welcomes construction of new fire station in Robertson

Some of the land damaged in the Kleinmond fire was on commercial farms where fynbos was grown, said Western Cape Local Government, Environmental Affairs and Development Planning MEC Anton Bredell.

2021-05-06 11:56:02 GMT2021-05-06 19:56:02(Beijing Time) Xinhua English CAPE TOWN, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Two people died in floodwaters caused by a major winter storm on Wednesday night in Western Cape Province, South Africa, the provincial government said on Thursday while predicting widespread rainfall and strong winds across large parts of the province throughout Thursday. The tragedy happened in Cape Winelands district, which is adjacent to the legislative capital Cape Town, after the victims were trapped in an overturned vehicle, the provincial government said in an update on the stor...

Disappointment as City of Cape Town shelves gunshot tracking project By Athandile Siyo Share Cape Town – The Manenberg Community Policing Forum (CPF) has expressed disappointment over the City of Cape Town's ceasing of the Shotspotter initiative, aimed to determine where shots are fired from. The City launched the project five years ago to much song and dance, but the Good Party's general secretary Brett Herron said the R32 million project has been “quietly abandoned”. The technology, which picked up the audio frequency of gunshots and was supposed to send alerts of where shots...

Law enforcement officers march to form a guard of honour. “Ever since we received the first tiding of a Covid-19 passing within our municipality, we had to accept the words of Nicholas Sparks who said: ‘It is possible to go on. How impossible it may seem.’” With these words, Executive Mayor Gesie van Deventer started her remembrance of the two councillors and six officials who have died from Covid-19 since the first cases were identified early last year. They are: Councillors Derrick Hendrickse and Manie Pietersen, Kwanele Gugushe, Nnozigagana K...