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The 2023 Cape Town taxi strike, also known as the 2023 Western Cape taxi strike, was a law enforcement dispute between minibus taxi operators in the Western Cape province of South Africa, as represented by South African National Taxi Council (SANTACO), and the City of Cape Town. [5] The strike started at 13:00 SAST on Thursday, 3 August 2023 ...
Over the last term of government, the devolution of policing power has become a key issue between the Western Cape Government and the Minister of Police, Bheki Cele. [1] The Western Cape Government argues that the Minister has the power to devolve policing, but the Minister denies having the power of devolution, saying that "the centralisation of the SAPS [is] in line with the Department [of ...
Nearly 1,000 homes in informal settlements in Cape Town, South Africa, have been destroyed by gale-force winds, displacing around 4,000 people, authorities and an aid organization said as the city ...
Website. www.news24.com. News24 is an English-language South African news website created in October 1998 by the multinational media company, Naspers. Its team of approximately 100 journalists, [1] led by editor-in-chief Adriaan Basson, are based in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban and Gqeberha. Its brands include Fin24, Sport24 ...
e. South Africa has been dubbed "the protest capital of the world", [1] with one of the highest rates of public protests in the world. [2] It is often argued that the rate of protests has been escalating since 2004, [2] but Steven Friedman argues that the current wave of protests stretches back to the 1970s. [3]
1 July – President Cyril Ramaphosa unveils his cabinet made up of seven parties. [24] 10 July – Thirteen people, including 12 children, are killed in a school bus crash in Merafong, Gauteng. [25] 11 July – At least 4,500 people are displaced following storms in Cape Town that damage around 15,000 structures.
The 2021 Table Mountain fire (also known as the Rhodes Memorial fire[2] or Cape Town fire[3][4]) is a major fire that started on 18 April 2021 [5] in and around Table Mountain National Park and the neighbourhoods of Newlands, [2] Rosebank, Mowbray and Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa. The damage to sites in the Table Mountain area included ...
The Western Cape government's open support for Ukraine was in contrast to the neutral position taken by the South African government and is representative of the province's different political norms. The politics of the Western Cape differs from that of most other provinces in South Africa , because, unlike the other provinces, the African ...