Questions over tests used on Carstens
Standardised tests to determine singer-songwriter Arno Carstens’s blood alcohol level have come under the spotlight in court. ||| Cape Town - Standardised tests to determine singer-songwriter Arno...
View ArticleTolls debate turns into fingerpointing match
A debate on the N1/N2 Winelands in Cape Town toll project descended into a finger-pointing match between the DA and the ANC. ||| Cape Town - A debate on the N1/N2 Winelands toll project descended into...
View Article‘1 in 5 Cape children on tik’
There has been a shocking rise in the number of schoolchildren getting hooked on tik, a Daily Voice probe has found. ||| Cape Town - One in five children in the Western Cape are on tik. The shocking...
View ArticleDA farmworker plan slammed
Farmworker unions and the ANC have slammed a new “agriculture action plan” in the Western Cape as a “cheap stunt”. ||| Cape Town - Farmworker unions and the ANC have slammed a new “agriculture action...
View ArticleDriving school honours Anni Dewani
Cape youths are using the name of slain bride Anni Dewani to change perceptions about townships. ||| Cape Town - Several Western Cape residents are using the name of slain bride Anni Dewani to change...
View ArticleFamily learns fate of missing daughter
A Mitchells Plain family’s anguished three-month search for their missing daughter has finally come to an end. ||| Cape Town - A Mitchells Plain family’s anguished three-month search for their missing...
View ArticleFisherman missing off Cape Point
A fisherman is missing after he fell overboard from a crayfish boat near the Cape Point Nature Reserve, the NSRI said. ||| Cape Town - A Cape Town fisherman is missing after he fell overboard from a...
View ArticleHave-nots lose out in fish quotas
Fisheries officials got an earful from fed-up Lambert’s Bay residents on the unfairness of fishing quotas and the poverty it causes. ||| Cape Town - They came to tell the people of Lambert’s Bay about...
View ArticleGolden Arrow fails to halt MyCiti expansion
An application to have the MyCiti bus service expansion halted in Cape Town was dismissed by the Western Cape High Court. ||| Cape Town - An application to have the MyCiti bus service expansion halted...
View ArticleGambling bookkeeper jailed for fraud
A bookkeeper with an addiction to gambling, who drove her former employer to the verge of bankruptcy, was jailed for seven years. ||| Cape Town - A 42-year-old bookkeeper with an addiction to...
View ArticleCape fisherman presumed drowned
A Cape Town fisherman who went missing after he fell overboard from a crayfish boat is presumed to have drowned. ||| Cape Town - A Cape Town fisherman who went missing after he fell overboard from a...
View ArticleAttempts to sell babies not unknown - NGO
While it was the first time an advert for adoption had been put online, Molo Songololo says it has had babies for sale cases before. ||| Cape Town - Child rights organisation Molo Songololo says it has...
View ArticleWhat the equity plan is all about
Africans should be represented nine times more than coloureds. This is what the employment equity plan boils down to. ||| Cape Town - Africans should be represented nine times more than coloured...
View ArticleWedding plan turns sour for gay couple
”I can’t believe that in this day and age it is not okay to be gay in South Africa.” ||| Cape Town - For Emile Butler, Diemerskraal wine estate in Paarl would have been the perfect venue to marry his...
View ArticleKarabus to ask for judgment in writing
If all goes according to plan, Professor Cyril Karabus could be back home by Wednesday. ||| Cape Town - If all goes according to plan, Professor Cyril Karabus, charged with manslaughter and falsifying...
View ArticleSecurity sector in a row over fee hikes
The Private Security Industry Regulatory Association will head to court where it will defend its controversial annual fee increases. ||| Cape Town - The Private Security Industry Regulatory Association...
View ArticleFreedom Day sees the world celebrate
The world celebrated Freedom Day with South Africa, with everyone from Google to saucy celebrity chef Nigella Lawson getting in on the day. ||| The world celebrated Freedom Day with South Africa...
View ArticleCAR leader to meet Zuma in Pretoria
Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye is expected to meet President Jacob Zuma in Pretoria. ||| As law and order spiral out of control in the Central African Republic, Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye is...
View ArticleCape aid worker dies in crash in Turkey
A Cape Town businessman died after a car crash in Turkey on his way to do humanitarian work in war-torn Syria. ||| Cape Town - A Mitchells Plain businessman has died while three others are in hospital...
View ArticleIntrepid surfer’s return to Cape Town
Camps Bay surfer Brett Archibald, who spent 28 hours treading water off the coast of Indonesia, is reunited with his family. ||| Cape Town - Camps Bay surfer Brett Archibald, who spent 28 hours...
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