Indholdsfortegnelse for 2024-08-08 i Cape Argus

The Woodstock Brewery is hosting a special Women’s Day celebration to honour women in music and the community as a whole. This event promises to be a night of live music, unique brews and a good cause. The festivities will kick off at 6pm tomorrow with a beer launch, tastings and expert talks. It will be followed by performances from Rock Steady at 7.30pm, We Kill Cowboys at 9pm and Not a She at 10pm. Rock Steady, a dynamic five-piece rock cover band from the Mother City, is led by Sharyn Seidel. The group include Colin Plit, Pam Levesque, Josh Buchalter and Damian Rijkers. Their Women’s Day performance, featuring musician Dara Beth, is set to energise the crowd. We Kill Cowboys, a four-piece led by Alex Muller, with Mornay Carstens,…

Content creator Mihlali Ndamase, pictured, is trending on social media and it has nothing to do with her work and everything to do with her messy love life. The beauty influencer broke the internet on Sunday when she posted pictures of herself with a bruised face and the caption, “Thank you my angel @leeroy_mab”. The post sparked debate, with people saying Leeroy Sidambe, who was/is in a relationship with Ndamase, had hit her. “Need everyone to stay focused on Leeroy and his abusive action. Your opinion on Mihlali and what she has done is irrelevant right now,” commented @BALUCIAGA. After the story made headlines, Sidambe released a statement to clear his name. In it, he alleges that it was Ndamase who was abusive. Sidambe’s statement read: “On 4 August, Mihlali…

BISHOP Lavis parents Ricardo and Sylvia Mitchell are devastated following the murder of their 5-year-old son Xavier, who was stabbed multiple times, allegedly by his nanny’s brother. Xavier was at his nanny’s Sky Road house, a few doors from his Bishop Lavis home yesterday morning, when he was killed just before 11am. The suspect, who is in his forties, reportedly had a psychotic episode. The 5-year-old was stabbed three times with a knife in the back, and witnesses said there was something hanging from the boy’s head. A neighbour who transported Xavier to hospital, Henry Abrahams, said: “When I came home I was asked by a neighbour to take the boy to the hospital. At the time the nanny had him in her hands. I asked her to bring a…

There were mixed emotions among the homeless people living along Heerengracht Street, who quietly packed up their belongings and relocated to City Safe Space shelters yesterday. This follows more than 150 homeless people accepting the City’s offer for transitional shelter, following an eviction order granted by the Western Cape High Court against those illegally occupying various sites in the CBD. Yesterday, about 20 people living near Customs House on Heerengracht Street gathered their belongings as City employees moved in to clear the area. The officials, including the law enforcement’s Displaced Persons Unit and Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers, cleared the area as those who once lived there could only watch as a new chapter awaited them. The City previously said individuals would voluntarily be moved to Safe Spaces from…

In terms of our Constitution, the trade union movement is heavily supported, encouraged, and protected. With the advent of our democracy, the Labour Relations Act enacted all the rights and duties to ensure that collective bargaining and individual representation would be endorsed and respected in the South African jurisdiction. Trade unions in South Africa were incredibly successful in defending human rights and indeed worker rights before the fall of the apartheid government. When Cosatu, the trade union umbrella body, first formed, the issues were largely political and, quite rightly, issues such as mass marches, strikes, and demands were made on the political stage. As we moved into democracy, the trade unions went into an alliance with the ANC government and the SA Communist Party. At that point, one would have…

Hamas named the alleged mastermind of the deadliest attack in Israeli history as its new leader, further inflaming regional tensions as the Gaza war entered its 11th month yesterday. Yahya Sinwar’s appointment angered Israel at a time when it is bracing for potential Iranian retaliation for the killing of his predecessor Ismail Haniyeh last week in Tehran. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Sinwar’s promotion was “yet another compelling reason to swiftly eliminate him and wipe this vile organisation off the face of the earth”. Sinwar – the Palestinian militant group’s leader in Gaza since 2017 – has not been seen since the October 7 attack, after which Israel called him a “dead man walking”. A senior Hamas official said that the selection of Sinwar sent a message that the…

THE absence of invoices that would allegedly exonerate the person outed as the “money man” of alleged underworld kingpin Nafiz Modack has stalled the underworld trial. Ricardo Morgan came under fire from Judge Robert Henney in the Western Cape High Court yesterday as the judge lambasted him for failing to provide the evidence to his legal representative, resulting in the cross-examination being stalled. Morgan is at the centre of the multimillion-rand Empire Investments bank account transactions. The State contends the account was used by Modack and his co-accused to launder money gained through extortion and used to pay for the pinging services of Zane Kilian. The childhood friend of Modack was busted several years ago after allegedly trying to dodge Hawks officers as they scrutinised bank accounts linked to Empire…

OUTSTANDING DNA evidence has delayed court proceedings in the case involving the 8-year-old girl who contracted HIV after her mother’s ex-boyfriend allegedly raped her. It came to light yesterday that evidence of the HIV strand testing was missing from the case docket. The mother attended a consultation at Wynberg Magistrate’s Court yesterday, where she learnt about the outstanding evidence that was delaying the case. According to the mom, she discovered that her daughter had been sexually assaulted in January, after seeing warts on and inside her daughter’s vagina. They then learned through blood tests that the girl was also HIV positive. The mother said the reason she suspected her ex-boyfriend, was because she knew he was also HIV positive and had warts on his penis. A source told the Cape…

On February 3, 1913, Indian Opinion from Durban noted: “The year 1913 (says the African People’s Organization) will probably never be forgotten by the Moslems of the Cape because of the distinction gained by three Moslem girls: Miss Rukea Dollie, a cousin of Dr Abdurahman, is the first Moslem girl to gain the Cape T3 Certificate. Miss Hawa Effendi, a niece of the doctor, has just passed the London Matric, in the first division in English, French, Latin, mathematics, and history. She is the daughter of the late Ahmed Effendi, who, during his lifetime, was well-known in Cape Town and Kimberley. Miss Havva is at present in London and intends to study medicine. Our contemporary believes that Misses Havva and Waradea are not only the first Moslem girls, but the…

As the news of the death of legendary South African actress, Connie Chiume spread across the world, fans, industry peers and government officials have lauded her as one of the greatest actors of her generation. According to her family, the iconic actress died, aged 72, on Tuesday at Garden City Hospital in Johannesburg. The iconic actress has been a part of the South African and international industry for more than four and a half decades. In her illustrious career, she starred in the international blockbuster Black Panther and reprised her role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Chiume also portrayed Simba’s mother Sarabi in Beyoncé’s Black Is King, a film interpreting the soundtrack album The Lion King: The Gift. Locally, the actress entertained viewers with stellar performances in soapies, TV shows…

Decade-long battle over school site nears end THE nearly decade-long legal battle over the Tafelberg site in Sea Point will head to the country’s apex court, as land and housing organisations Ndifuna Ukwazi (NU) and Reclaim the City (RTC) continue their fight for affordable social housing within inner Cape Town and redress of apartheid spatial planning. NU and RTC will be heading to the Constitutional Court to appeal a ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), which overturned a Western Cape High Court ruling that deemed the sale of the site unlawful and the deed of sale was declared void. The Constitutional Court is expected to consider whether the Western Cape Government and City of Cape Town acted reasonably in fulfilling their obligations to redress spatial apartheid, and to…

ESKOM has called on Helderberg residents to co-operate with it after vandalism left hundreds without power. Residents from parts of Somerset West and Strand were affected on Wednesday following vandalism at the Lourensrivier substation. Eskom provincial spokesperson Kyle Cookson said the incident occurred at 11.17pm on Tuesday. “The continuous theft and vandalism of Eskom infrastructure is impeding both basic service delivery and major infrastructure projects, as well as severely affecting the electricity restoration to customers …” Field technicians and specialised construction teams were on-site assessing the damage, Cookson said. “Unfortunately, there is still no estimated time for the restoration of supply. Eskom’s working with the City electricity department to establish the shortest restoration plan.” A woman who works in Strand told the Cape Argus that the power outages had affected…

This week, eThekwini ratepayers led by the eThekwini Ratepayers Protest Movement (ERPM) escalated their fight for service delivery issues by inviting Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC Rev Thulasizwe Buthelezi to a meeting aimed at mapping a way forward. For many years, the city has been marred by service delivery challenges that resulted in protests. At one point, ratepayers withheld their rates payments and approached the court. At that time, funds were deposited into a trust account instead of being paid to eThekwini Municipality. The residents argued that they could not pay for services they were not receiving. However, the City won the case. This week, central to the meeting between Cogta and the ratepayers were the 6kl (kilolitre) backdated charges and their impact on ratepayers, as well as billing…

Top seeds Alex Fuller and Dewald van Niekerk will headline the field for the Growthpoint SA Squash Nationals starting at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town tomorrow. Several players will arrive fresh from last month’s interprovincial campaign, which saw Western Province’s Fuller and Van Niekerk of SA Country Districts (SACD) reign supreme in the women’s and men’s competitions. Both Fuller and Van Niekerk will be at home at the Waterfront’s all-glass court because the nationals have been played there for the past three years. The 30-year-old Fuller lifted the national title in 2020 and 2022, while Van Niekerk, 27, will be chasing his fourth title in a row. Fuller, who reached a career-high world ranking of 22, retired after a decade on the professional circuit late last year, and is…