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Claimants Urged to Help Build the New Community of District Six

5 April 2006

Verified claimants who missed the earlier workshops are urged to attend one of a series of Open House Exhibitions that will commence on Saturday, 8 April 2006. Attending the exhibition will afford them the opportunity to help shape the future of... Read More

Cape Town Fashion Festival

4 April 2006

South African High Fashion by Designer Craig Read More

National Polio Eradication Awareness Week: 3-9 April 2006

4 April 2006

"The last case of polio that was reported in South Africa was in 1989", Minister Uys said. "But as long as there are still cases of the poliovirus elsewhere in the world, polio can be imported to a polio free area such as the Western Cape", he said. Read More

Dreamworld Decision

4 April 2006

Provincial Minister of Environment, Planning and Economic Development, Tasneem Essop will announce her decision on the Dreamworld Film Complex appeal at a media conference on Wednesday, April 5 at 10am in the Ground Floor Boardroom, Utilitas... Read More

Dreamworld Film Complex Decision

4 April 2006

Minister of Environment, Planning and Economic Development, Tasneem Essop announced that the Dreamworld film studio complex application had been approved with a variation of decision and conditions. Read More

Provincial Sport Awards

3 April 2006

The Annual Western Cape Sport Awards will be held in Stellenbosch on April 07, 2006 at the Van Der Stel Sport Complex. Read More

Launch of the Electricity Demand Side Management Strategy

2 April 2006

Your are invited to attend the media launch of the Electricty Demand Side Management Strategy, which includes a Public relations/communications plan, on Tuesday, April 4 at NOON at the Cullinan Hotel. Read More

Condolences to Mackenzie Family

1 April 2006

"We have learnt with great shock the untimely death of a promising and rising local rugby player, Immanuel Mackenzie, who apparently collapsed and died during a rugby match yesterday. Read More

Water Supply Cut - Guguletu and Nyanga

28 March 2006

The water supply to Guguletu and Nyanga will be cut from 22:00 [10 pm] on Thursday night, 30 March 2006. It will be restored by 06:00 on Friday morning. City Water Services needs to install four new control valves on the main pipelines in the area. Read More

Celebrating Excellence in Adult Education

26 March 2006

The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) will tonight be celebrating the achievement of excellence of adult learners as well as public adult learning centres in both the ABET level 4 assessment and Senior Certificate examinations of 2005.   Read More

World TB Day

23 March 2006

Be smart; get tested for TB from the start! By creating a focus area every year on tuberculosis on World TB Day, Government hopes that more support will be forthcoming to support the fight against the disease. Read More

Tygerberg Nature Reserve Hiking Trails Boast New Names

23 March 2006

Visitors to the City of Cape Town's Tygerberg Nature Reserve will now be greeted with hiking trails named after plants, animals and birds. Conservation staff, with the help of the Friends of the Tygerberg Hills, planned, constructed and placed... Read More

Malmesbury Bus Accident - Contract Suspended

23 March 2006

Western Cape Education MEC Cameron Dugmore has today called for the "immediate suspension" of the transport contract of the company whose bus was involved in an accident near Malmesbury last month, in which two primary school learners died. Read More

More Than 400 Western Cape Schools to Consider 'No Fee' Status

22 March 2006

About 424 Primary schools in the Western Cape may soon scrap school fees if they opt for status as a "no fee" school. Read More

The Release of Mujahid Daniels

22 March 2006

Western Cape Minister for Community Safety Leonard Ramatlakane has reacted with disappointment to acquittal of high-flyer gangster Mujahid Daniels at the Cape High court. Read More

Primary Health Care Information System for Community Health Centres

21 March 2006

The Western Cape Provincial Department of Health has launched a Primary Health Care Information System at 13 Community Health Centres in the province. This system allocates each patient with a unique number, which can be used universally throughout... Read More

Western Cape Veterinary Services asked to Assist in Movement Control of Pigs

13 March 2006

It was reported yesterday that the Eastern Cape veterinary services have detected swine fever at Uitenhage in the Nelson Mandela Metro and that about a thousand pigs needs to be culled during culling operations this week.   Read More

Torch of Peace Campaign

12 March 2006

The Torch of Peace - symbol of the national campaign to combat violence against women and children - will arrive in the Western Cape on Friday, 10 March 2006. Read More

Energy Risk Managment Committee Team

9 March 2006

An energy risk management committee team, set up following two meetings with Government, Government institutions and industry leaders, met for the first time this afternoon (Thursday). Read More

Torch of Peace - from KwaZulu-Natal to Western Cape

9 March 2006

KwaZulu-Natal Education MEC Ms Ina Cronjé will hand the Torch of Peace to her Western Cape counterpart Cameron Dugmore, tomorrow (Friday 10 March) during a special ceremony at the Breërivier High School in Worcester, at 12h00.   Read More

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