The 2015 Annual Human Rights Inter-District Schools Softball and Baseball Festival, which was hosted by the Western Cape Softball Federation and the Western Cape Baseball Federation and was funded by the Western Cape Provincial Sport Confederation (... Read More
Minister Albert Fritz will address the launch of the Cape Town Drug Counselling Centre’s new site in Mitchells Plain. Read More
The Western Cape Department of Social Development held its first Youth Excellence Awards. The awards were hosted in partnership with the Impumelelo Social Innovations Centre, and were sponsored by Nedbank and Old Mutual. Read More
[The following speech was delivered by Minister Albert Fritz in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament on Tuesday 24 March 2015, during his presentation of the Department of Social Development’s Budget Vote 7 for 2015/16.] Read More
Statement by Dan Plato, Western Cape Minister of Community Safety Read More
Seventeen-month old Masslino Franke from Manenberg was born prematurely on 27 August 2013 and suffered extensive bleeding in his brain. Read More
Mr Speaker, Premier Zille, Cabinet colleagues and Members of the Provincial Legislature, Director-General and Heads of Departments, Our partners in business, civil society and labour, Residents of the Western Cape, The media. Read More
Today Tuesday, 24 March 2015, the Provincial Minister of Human Settlements, Bonginkosi Madikizela will be hosting a media briefing prior to his Budget Speech in the Provincial Legislature. Minister Madikizela will focus on: Read More
Speech by Dr Ivan Meyer, Minister of Finance Read More
Honorable Speaker Honorable Premier of the Western Cape Provincial Cabinet Colleagues and members of the Legislature Executive Mayors and municipal Managers The head of department, colleagues and friends Read More
Madame Speaker, the 2015/16 Main Budget is R304 million more than the 2014/15 Main Budget. This represents an increase of 29,6 per cent in the budget of the Department of the Premier, chiefly as a result of the funding allocated to the Broadband... Read More
It was an afternoon of singing, rhythm, blues, brass and all that jazz when the Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF) Training and Development programme kicked off this past weekend, starting with the Arts and Culture Focus Schools Live Perfo Read More
Statement by Dan Plato, Western Cape Minister of Community Safety Read More
On 20 and 21 March 2015, 25 alcohol blitz roadblocks across the Western Cape saw a total of 2 339 vehicles stopped as part of Provincial Traffic Services safety campaign. Read More
This morning, the Minister for Transport and Public Works, Mr Donald Grant, joined me on a walkabout visit to the Cape Town Station to launch the Open (the) Windows Campaign ahead of World TB Day tomorrow. Read More
Direct intervention by Western Cape Human Settlements Minister Bonginkosi Madikizela ensured that construction an almost doomed housing project was officially commemorated with a tree planting ceremony today. Minister Madikizela said “This project... Read More
Premier Helen Zille and Alan Winde, Minister of Economic Opportunities, this week launched a multi-million rand business incubator to support tech entrepreneurs and drive job creation in Khayelitsha and Mitchell's Plain. Read More
Outcomes from the second annual Sustainable Settlement Innovation Summit 2015 Cape Town – On Monday, 2 March, 120 delegates from the academia, government, NGO and private sector gathered to attend, discuss and share ideas for the second Sustainable... Read More
The Department of Transport and Public Works will celebrate Human Rights Day with a Fun Walk event aimed at addessing pedestrian safety, especially among children. Read More
[Note to Editors – We had mistakenly listed the child’s age as 4 years old, she is actually 3 years old. The older brother has been confirmed to be 18 years old.] Read More