News

Having worked in the child abuse sector for the past 16 years, Rochelle Philander is no stranger to the horrors facing young women and girls in the Western Cape.

Residents in the South Peninsula have started a petition to have Cape Nature investigated, after a hunting permit was issued to allegedly kill the Plateau troop alpha male baboon last month.

Held in honour of conservation heroes across the globe, this year’s World Ranger Day also exposed a disturbing trend in the ranger profession.

As a midwife, women are at the centre of her profession. And for the past decade, Jolene Tromp has been focussed on creating a beautiful birthing experience for all women.

A minute of silence was held at the start of a Tokai Forest joint security patrol on Saturday 30 July in honour of Mthobile Ndyumbu, the Fidelity ADT armed response officer who was gunned down in Claremont last month.

To address the high number of recently matriculated, unemployed youth, Shine Literacy launched a Youth4Literacy (Y4L) programme at Zonnebloem Boys Primary School.

Maggie Carolus, Patricia Hugo, Faheema Francis, Fatima Meyer, Charlene Morris and Tamara Barthus – these are the crime-fighting women walking the streets to make the Strandfontein police precinct a safer place.

More than R300 000 in fines were issued while four taxis were impounded during a joint police operation in Kommetjie Road on Thursday 21 July.

The Where Rainbows Meet Training and Development Foundation in Vrygrond is offering unemployed women in the community various life-skills and leadership programmes.

“It is not about me. If you give the players room to shine, the coach shines too.”.