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Social grant recipients queue outside the Boxer store in the Mitchell’s Plain Town Centre to swop their Sassa card for the new Postbank card ahead of the deadline on Thursday March 20.

‘What the government is doing to us is not right’

The deadline to switch from the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) gold cards to new Postbank black cards has been extended but not before the process fed thousands of…

A featured author at the Cape Flats Book Festival was Vennessa Scholtz from Parow, who has published books such as Kita’s Dance with the Dust and Ellie and the Good Hair Fairy. Pictured is Ms Scholtz reading one of her books to attendees at the festival.

Cape Flats Book Festival celebrates stories and community

A featured author at the Cape Flats Book Festival was Vennessa Scholtz from Parow, who has published books such as Kita’s Dance with the Dust and Ellie and the Good Hair Fairy.…

System change needed in maintenance courts

Councillor Elton Jansen, Sub-council 17 chairperson On Wednesday January 22, I attended in Lentegeur, Mitchell’s Plain, a public hearing by the Public Protector South Africa as a…

Siphokazi Jonas is among the line-up of authors and poets at the Cape Flats Book Festival.

Cape Flats Book Festival offers literary feast

Book lovers will have a chance to meet local and international authors at this weekend’s Cape Flats Book Festival, at West End Primary, in Lentegeur, Mitchell’s Plain. Writer,…

The Labour Corps Memorial at the Company’s Garden was inaugurated by Her Royal Highness Princess Anne last Wednesday.

Black World War I servicemen honoured with memorial in Company’s Garden

A new memorial in the Company’s Garden honours more than 1 700 black servicemen who served and died with the Military Labour Corps during World War I and had no known graves. “We…

The truth, two ‘tieties’ and thrilling SA stories at upcoming Cape Flats Book Fest

Strand homecooks Najma Abrahams and Azba Fanie, will be showcasing their cookbook Tietie & Nana se Huiskos at the Cape Flats Book Festival on Sunday February 2. Cape Flats Book…

The fourth Cape Flats Book Festival returns to West End Primary School in Lentegeur, Mitchell’s Plain, next month.

Books, authors, poets galore at upcoming Cape Flats Book Festival

The fourth Cape Flats Book Festival returns to West End Primary School in Lentegeur, Mitchell’s Plain, on Saturday and Sunday February 1 and 2. The free festival is organised…

Voorsmakie sets the stage for an epic Cape Town Street Parade

The bar has been raised for what's to be expected at this year’s Cape Town Street Parade following the weekend’s vibrant festivities at the 2024 annual Voorsmakie at Kenilworth…

Beating a rhythm down memory lane with “Boeta Bek”

The minstrel fraternity is filled with many different characters, people and groups, who all share one common thing... The love of “klopse”. Families have grown into it,…