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MEC Patricia De Lille's Anti-Corruption Announcement

1 December 2010

Minister of Social Development Patricia de Lille has temporarily delayed the process of payment to the 3 009 beneficiaries of the Emergency Relief Grant (ERG) for this year. Read More

Media Alert: Metro Emergency Medical Service Certificate Breakfast

1 December 2010

Western Cape Provincial Minister of Health, Theuns Botha, will award forty (40) Emergency Medical Service (EMS) staff for serving the Province for twenty (20) years at a special certificate breakfast ceremony at Kirstenbosch Gardens tomorrow morning... Read More

Education MEC: End of the Examinations and the Start of the Marking Process

1 December 2010

Tomorrow marks the end of the 2010 National Senior Certificate examinations for our Grade twelve (12) learners. Read More

MEC Patricia De Lille to Make Anti-Corruption Announcement at Press Conference Tomorrow

30 November 2010

Patricia de Lille, the Western Cape Minister for Social Development will tomorrow announce a full-scale investigation into alleged corruption in her Department's annual issuing of the 3000 Emergency Relief Grants. Read More

New Education Bill Passed in the Provincial Legislature

30 November 2010

I am greatly pleased and proud to announce that the Western Cape Provincial School Education Amendment Bill has been approved by the Western Cape Provincial Legislature. Read More

Banning Alcohol Advertising Not a Silver Bullet, but an Important Element of Multi-Pronged Approach

29 November 2010

Women and children are the most vulnerable groups in our society and therefore they need to be loved and protected, and not abused.We all know that most murders and violence against women and children in our society is perpetrated by people they... Read More

Western Cape Department of Health Gears Up for World Aids Day

29 November 2010

The Western Cape Department of Health will be out in full force tomorrow and will have free HIV counselling and testing at various malls, police stations and Health facilities. Read More

Vehicle Testing Centres Doing Free Roadworthy Testing

29 November 2010

Vehicle Testing Centres Doing Free Roadworthy Testing Read More

Medical Reports on Handling of Child Rape Victim

29 November 2010

With regard to reports about the handling of the child rape victim by Wesfleur Hospital in Atlantis and the Red Cross War Memorial Hospital, the medical records state the following: Read More

Media Alert: World Aids Day Kicks off

28 November 2010

As World Aids Day kicks off, the Protea's cricket captain, Graeme Smith will be at Middestad Mall in Bellville to show his support for World Aids Day and get tested. Read More

Media Alert: World AIDS Day 2010, 29 November 2010

28 November 2010

The Department of Health will kick off its World Aids Day activities a day early this year and will take to the Middestad Mall in Bellville and do free HIV/AIDS test and counselling. Read More

Shark Alert: City Warns of High Great White Shark Activity in False Bay

28 November 2010

The 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 2010

The 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 2010

McKinsey & 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 2010

Today, 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 2010

On 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 2010

The 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 2010

Tomorrow, 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 2010

Social 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

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