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Vannie Hanover Park celebrate four years with day fun amid gang tensions
Vannie Hanover Park celebrated its fourth anniversary with a market day on Saturday 27 April.
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Long Street Swimming Pool remains temporarily closed for maintenance, delaying reopening plans
The Long Street Swimming Pool will remain temporarily closed to the public due to ongoing maintenance.
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Walmer Estate residents outraged by ‘unsafe’ pedestrian bridges
The recent tragic death of a 12-year-old boy on Nelson Mandela Boulevard has left residents saddened and sparked increased calls for police to patrol pedestrian bridges in Walmer Estate, which they claim are prime spots for muggers.
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Cape of Good Hope SPCA flooded with donations amid Southern Suburbs water crisis
A flood of goodwill water donations streamed into the Cape of Good Hope SPCA’s doors last week following a widespread water outage across the Southern Suburbs that left the taps dry for days since Sunday 21 April.
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Batavia Special Needs’ wall in Heritage Road beautified
As of mid-April, Batavia Special Needs school’s 90 m wall shines with its fresh coat of Heritage Green-coloured paint in Hamilton Road, Claremont, blending in beautifully with the trees behind it, neatly restored.
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Athlone gang-violence is unprecedented as sporadic shootings leave communities in fear
“There was never gang violence in the community. It was always a safe and peaceful community; people were never scared to go out at night”
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Protected trees felled on Klaasenbosch greenbelt sparks public outrage
Simmering tensions have reached boiling point as a number of trees on the Klaasenbosch greenbelt came crashing down on Monday 15 April, regarded by local environmental groups as illegal tree felling serving interests of dense property development in
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DOWNLOAD | FASHION WORLD: Made for Mom
Check out the Made For Mom Sale at Fashion World, with their latest reduced prices. A wide selection of styles, colours, prints, and sizes is available.
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Road construction plans proceed despite concerns for endangered wildlife
An eight-year battle to stop the City of Cape Town from building a road to connect Kommetjie Road and Noordhoek Main Road via the Noordhoek wetlands has ended in defeat for local activists determined to protect the natural habitat of…
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Claremont Library inspires kids to read on World Book Day
Snow White, Captain Jack Sparrow, Harry Potter and many more loveable story characters were embodied by preschool readers this World Book Day, celebrated on Tuesday 23 April, as a happy ending to another one of Claremont Library’s famous five-week re










