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The Cape Town water crisis in South Africa was a multi-year period in 2015–2020 of water shortage in the Western Cape region, most notably affecting the City of Cape Town. Dam water levels began decreasing in 2015 and the Cape Town water crisis peaked during mid-2017 to mid-2018 when water levels hovered between 14 and 29 percent of total dam ...
Nearly 1,000 homes in informal settlements in Cape Town, South Africa, have been destroyed by gale-force winds, displacing around 4,000 people, authorities and an aid organization said as the city ...
The 2021 Table Mountain fire (also known as the Rhodes Memorial fire[ 2] or Cape Town fire[ 3][ 4]) is a major fire that started on 18 April 2021 [ 5] in and around Table Mountain National Park and the neighbourhoods of Newlands, [ 2] Rosebank, Mowbray and Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa. The damage to sites in the Table Mountain area ...
Website. www .news24 .com. News24 is an English-language South African news website created in October 1998 by the multinational media company, Naspers. Its team of approximately 100 journalists, [ 1] led by editor-in-chief Adriaan Basson, are based in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban and Gqeberha. Its brands include Fin24, Sport24 ...
Fire and response. On 2 January 2022, just after 05:00 am ( SAST ), the City of Cape Town 's Fire & Rescue Service were notified of a fire at the parliamentary complex. The fire started on the third floor of the National Council of Provinces building and spread to the office space and the gymnasium, before spreading to the National Assembly.
Cape Town[ a] is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. [ 11] It is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [ 12] The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality .
Shrien Dewani. Anni Ninna Dewani ( née Hindocha; 12 March 1982 – 13 November 2010) was a Swedish woman of Indian origin who was murdered while on her honeymoon in South Africa after the taxi in which she and her husband Shrien Dewani were traveling was hijacked. Three arrests were made in the days following the crime; hijackers Mziwamadoda ...
Occupation. Politician. legislator. Geordin Gwyn Hill-Lewis (born 31 December 1986) is a South African politician who is the Mayor of Cape Town. A member of the Democratic Alliance, he was elected mayor in November 2021. Hill-Lewis attended Edgemead High School, obtained an Honours degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from UCT, and a ...