News and Speeches
Shark Alert: City Warns of High Great White Shark Activity in False Bay
28 November 2010The City of Cape Town and the Shark Spotting Programme would like to alert beach users to recent and ongoing high Great White Shark activity in the inshore area of False Bay, particularly in the Muizenberg, Fish Hoek and Clovelly areas. Read More
Media Alert: City's Traffic Services' Road Safety Education Team and Syntell to Host Christmas Party for Orphans
28 November 2010The City of Cape Town's Traffic Services will partner with Syntell to host a Christmas party for approximately three hundred (300) orphans at the Bonginkosi Educare Centre in Khayelitsha. Read More
Western Cape Features in World Education Study
28 November 2010McKinsey & Company, the international management consulting firm, has included the Western Cape in a study of improving education systems in twenty (20) countries. Read More
Media Alert: Premier Zille to Accompany CDWs on a Visit to Maintenance Beneficiaries
28 November 2010Today, 29 November, Premier Helen Zille will accompany community development workers (CDWs) on a visit to maintenance beneficiaries, living in the Philippi area, who are owed money and have not collected it. Read More
Western Cape Health Minister to Attend a Sixteen Cataract Operation Marathon in Beaufort West
27 November 2010On Monday, 29 November, Western Cape Minister of Health, Theuns Botha will visit Beaufort West hospital where a sixteen (16) cataract operation marathon will take place on people from Beaufort West, Nelspoort, Murraysburg, Merweville, Laingsburg and... Read More
City Releases Properties to the Market and Commences Tender Processes
25 November 2010The City of Cape Town's Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Development and Tourism, Alderman Felicity Purchase, recently announced that the Property Management Department has released a number of vacant City-owned properties to the market. Read More
Media Alert: Premier Zille to Lead March in Support of the "16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children" in Franschoek
25 November 2010Tomorrow, 27 November, Premier Zille will lead a march in support of the "16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children" in Groendal, Franschoek. Read More
MEC Patricia De Lille Says Weekend Report that She Issued Instruction for 4 Children to be Removed from a Child Care Centre, is Based On 'Lies'
25 November 2010Social Development Minister Patricia de Lille this morning phoned Eleanor Bester, the coordinator of Heaven's Nest, a child care organisation in Ottery, 'to set the record straight' over the circumstances surrounding reports that staffers from Child... Read More
City Health Supports 16 Days of Activism Campaign to Stop Violence Against Women and Children
24 November 2010The '16 Days of Activism' campaign to stop violence against women and children in South Africa starts today, 25 November (International Day of No Violence Against Women) and will run until 10 December 2010 (Human Rights Day). Read More
Emergency Rescue Personnel Receive Top Award
24 November 2010On November 19, 2010, METRO Rescue personnel, Charl Nieuwoudt, Egnall Brown and Deon Alberts received the Centrum Guardian Project award. This national accolade is presented to rescue and emergency medical service workers who have gone the extra... Read More
Media Alert: Tygerberg Children's Hospital Christmas Party
24 November 2010Tygerberg Children's Hospital will host their annual Christmas Party for four hundred (400) patients at the hospital. The children come from various areas surrounding areas and have been either inpatients or outpatients at the hospital. Read More
"16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children: End of the road for maintenance defaulters"
23 November 2010Today, marks the official launch of the Western Cape Provincial Government's 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children campaign, which will run from 25 November to 10 December 2010. Read More
Media Alert: Premier Zille to Launch Western Cape Provincial Government's 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children Campaign
23 November 2010Today, 24 November, Premier Helen Zille and the Provincial Minister of Social Development Patricia De Lille will mark the launch of the Western Cape Provincial Government's 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children campaign. Read More
Khayelitsha Residents to Benefit from New TB and HIV Integrated Wing at Nolungile Clinic
22 November 2010The City of Cape Town, in partnership with the Provincial Health Department, officially opened the new TB/HIV integrated wing at the Nolungile primary health care facility in Khayelitsha today, 23 November 2010. Read More
City Road Closures for the Switch on of the Festive Lights
22 November 2010Cape Town's largest public open-air event, the official switching on of the Adderley Street festive lights, takes place this Sunday, November 28, at the Cape Town station forecourt. Read More
No Blue Lights for Western Cape Ministers
22 November 2010Following a resolution by the Western Cape cabinet at the beginning of this month to regulate the use of blue lights and sirens, all blue lights and sirens were removed from provincial ministerial vehicles during November. Read More
Expanding Access to Quality Education
22 November 2010A key priority for this government is to improve learner outcomes in this Province. Read More
Media Alert: Western Cape Education Department Outlines Progress Made in its Strategic Objectives
22 November 2010Tomorrow, Minister Grant and Head of the Provincial Education Department, Penny Vinjevold will be briefing media on the progress made in achieving the strategic objectives set by this Government for education. Read More
Reflecting on the 2010 Footclic Legacy
22 November 2010The 2010 Footclic participants in Burgundy compiled a stunning coffee table book on the recent exchange project for aspiring journalists between the Western Cape and Burgundy. Read More
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