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Parts of Muizenberg Beach were reopened to the public on Sunday 7 August after a temporary closure due to a sewage spill.

Local animal welfare initiatives Youth Pet Care and Steenberg Paws are calling on residents not to hurt and kill wild animals, this after a porcupine was beaten to death in Retreat earlier this month.

The elderly from the Maranatha Morning Star Pentecostal Church in Retreat gather every second Wednesday to participate in various activities such as fitness, life skills, assistance with wills and estates as well as visiting heritage sights.

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.