Girl guides give back for Mandela Day

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Girl guides and their families from various group met at Pinelands Guide Hall on Saturday where they helped to fill more than 2300 jars, called Jars of Hope, with ...

Ballet legend honoured at District Six Museum

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Legendary ballet teacher Cecil Jacobs was honoured with the unfurling of his portrait at the District Six Museum, in the Cape Town city centre, last week. Mr Jacobs, ...

Book fest has readers crying, laughing, dancing

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Read to Rise hosted the Cape Flats Book Festival. In the middle is Mavis Williams, the mother of Athol Williams who co-founded the literacy non-profit organisation. ...

Fisherfolk stake claim to angling heritage

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Sonwabe Fishing and Tourism Front (SFTF) management team. Pictured from left are Sonwabe Fishing co-operative interim chairwoman Rushaan Williams, Marion Misrole, ...

Christine ready to take the lead at RLabs

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Christine Taphel, 36, of Muizenberg, is the new CEO of Reconstructed Living Labs (RLabs) South Africa, an award-winning non-profit company, based in Athlone, that ...

All-women factory makes solar panels

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René Salmon, 46, from Beacon Valley, leads the all-women solar panel manufacturing facility at Ener-G-Africa’s (EGA) based in Ndabeni. Grandmothers, mothers and ...

Hair and make-up competition

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Hair stylists and make-up artists in-training pulled out all the stops in the Western Province School of Skills' hairdressing competition hosted in Mitchell’s Plain ...

C’Flats drama at Muizenberg theatre

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Devon Swartz, from San Remo, and Dennis Stander, from Parktown, presents a theatre production for outcasts. A Cape Flats duo are taking to the stage to answer their ...

Finding healing through laughter

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Using the healing power of laughter to help troubled communities is the aim of God Has a Sense of Humour, a comedy show to be staged in Lenteguer. It is being organised ...

‘Stop urban terror’

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Abie Isaacs, chairman of the Cape Flats Safety Forum, Camorin du Plessis, from Portland and Soraya Samsodien, from Beacon Valley, protested outside SAPS Western ...

Prayer friends

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Art to remember slavery

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Artists from around Cape Town exhibited their work in the original slave quarters of Leeuwenhof, the premier’s official residence, at the official launch, on Saturday, ...

Young archers take aim on the Plain

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Pupils from a Bridgetown madressa took part in an archery programme in Mitchell’s Plain on Sunday. It was held at Masjidul Miftaah by the Imāmat Council of Mitchell’s ...

Teacher pens book about ’hero of the people’ Imam Haron

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As the country prepares to celebrate Heritage Day on Friday September 24, the family of the late Imam Abdullah Haron are still waiting on a date for an inquest to ...

Crying Pastor’s soup kitchens in need of help

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The death of a community activist, known as the Crying Pastor because of his caring ways, has left six Hanover Park soup kitchens in the lurch. Raymond Davids, 68, ...