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Protesters block roads in Dunoon with burning tyres and rubble
Anger over City of Cape Town demolishing and confiscating material of “unoccupied” shacks Peter Luhanga While the country observed Human Rights Day on Tuesday, about 300 protesters from informal settlements in Dunoon, Cape Town, blocked Potsdam Road and Malibongwe Drive by strewing litter and stones and burning tyres. They were protesting against the City of Cape […]
Miss Dunoon crown for high school teen 22 young people participate in Dunoon’s first beauty pageant Anita Khaile A High School teenager has been crowned Miss Dunoon while a 23-year-old man took the Mr. Dunoon title at the Mr. and Miss Dunoon beauty pageant on Saturday 25 March at Sophakama primary school. The pageant theme […]
National shutdown Cape Town — Monday 20 March 2023
Before midnight on Sunday 19 March, a small group of protesters gathered in Parklands Tableview. City of Cape Town Safety and Security Mayco member JP Smith claims that the group tried to intimidate fuel stations in the area. Smiths says private security along with SAPS responded at which point one EFF supporter was arrested. He […]
Iphondo libhiyozela iKrisimesi kunye neentsana zoNyaka oMtsha
IDunoon ifumana isabelo sayo seentsana ezine zeKrisimesi kwabali-188 kweli phondo INTATHELI YETHU Abanye abazali baseNtshona Koloni bebenemibhiyozo kabini yeeholide njengoko bebesamkela iintsana zabo ezisandul’ ukuzalwa kwihlabathi ngeKrisimesi nangoSuku loNyaka oMtsha. Iintsana ezizalwa ngeKrisimesi zilikhulu elinamashumi asibhozo anesibhozo (188) kumaziko ezempilo ephondo, zaze zayi-192 ngoSuku loNyaka oMtsha. Kwaba, abantwana abane beKrisimesi bazalelwa kwiZiko lezeMpilo laseDunoon kwaye abantwana […]
Province celebrates Christmas and New Year’s babies
Dunoon gets its share of four Christmas babies out of 188 in the province Some Western Cape parents had double holiday celebrations as they welcomed their newborn babies to the world on Christmas and on New Year’s Day. There were 188 babies born on Christmas at provincial health facilities, and 192 on New Year’s Day. Of […]
Youth cycle into green delivery jobs
New last-mile delivery venture gets 100 youths on their feet Jobs provided for young people from Atlantis, Dunoon, and Joe Slovo After getting poor marks during his first year journalism studies at Rhodes University, 22-year-old Yandisa Mbhadeko’s attempt to reapply for financial aid from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) in 2020 was rejected. With no […]
‘Ancestral sighting’ has pupils fainting
For the second time this term, pupils at a local high school have collapsed due to an alleged ancestral sighting. Learning was abruptly disrupted at a Table View high school on 1 November when several pupils and teachers collapsed, allegedly due an ancestral calling or sighting. The incident at Sunridge Circle High School, which mostly […]
Disability no obstacle to Dunoon school cleaning team
A group of Dunoon residents have refused to let their disabilities confine them, having taken responsibility for cleaning services at Sophakama Primary school in the township. The group of ten disabled residents have signed a six-month contract, starting 17 October, to provide cleaning services which will provide income to supplement the disability grants they receive. […]
Dunoon toilet row continues as residents find creative way to empty toilets
The toilet row continues in Dunoon after informal settlement residents stopped the new City contractor, Sanitech, from entering the township’s informal settlements to render the services it has been contracted by the City to provide. Residents accuse Sanitech of doing a bad job previously when it was sub-contracted to Mshengu toilet hire, whose contract expired […]