Twelve-year-old Kierra de Villiers, of Valhalla Park, drowned at the Glencairn tidal pool on Sunday February 7. Kierra went to the beach on Sunday with 27 friends ...
This Christmas you can help a shelter dog or cat event if you don’t adopt one of them. The Emma Animal Rescue Society (TEARS), in Lekkerwater Road, has compiled ...
A wildfire fanned by strong winds swept the mountain slopes of Slangkop, near Kommetjie, on Thursday night. The City’s Fire and Rescue Service got the call-out at ...
It is said to everything there is a season. This is especially true for me right now, as I shut down - not just my laptop - but also my time with the False Bay Echo ...
I am utterly owned by three African greys, two budgies and two zebra finches. They are a font of laughter and awe: every day they teach me something about them, ...
A Noordhoek endurance athlete has become the first person to run the 13 Peaks Challenge back to back, racking up 212km. And Karoline Hanks did it all for a turtle ...
An Ocean View NPO, Children A’loud, has bought a derelict house that it plans to turn into a resource centre for young and old in the community. Renee Smith is the ...
About 500 people filled Surfer's Corner in Muizenberg on Sunday to protest against to Shell's plans for 3D seismic surveys off the Eastern Cape's Wild Coast. Shell ...
Living Hope, a non-profit organisation, is taking the fight against two of the country’s most pressing problems – Covid-19 and gender violence – into the heart of ...
Nola Oosthuizen believes a late-night bath very likely saved her life when Kommetjie’s Swan Lodge went up in flames. If she hadn’t taken the bath when she did, she ...
Marina da Gama's children all had a chance to show off their hobbies and talents and learn the value of these in the real world at the Kid-trepreneur's Market, in ...
The annual Scribblers writing club's open mic evening was held at Angels Resource Centre, in Fish Hoek, on Thursday, November 18. Paul Kilfoil, Karen Gray-Kilfoil, ...
The responsibility for clearing the litter-and-rubble net traps in Marina da Gama’s waterways is about to shift to the City after resident Mike Ryder resigned from ...
In the early hours of Saturday morning, November 20, Kommetjie lost one its most historic buildings, Swan Lodge. The fire gutted the building, destroying a shop, ...
The DA has held on to Cape Town, but its support has dropped, and the trend is mirrored in several southern-suburbs wards that have long been blue bastions. With ...
By Karen KotzeDespite getting drenched, voters showed tenacity and good humour at the Zandvlei Imperial Yacht Club and Muizenberg Caravan Park voting stations, where ...
By Karen Kotze Artist, teacher Estelle Byrne, of Simon's Town, has just become an author again. . . at the age of 92. Not only that, but the first run of her book, ...
By Karen KotzePolice are investigating after a Muizenberg man was shot dead in a local pub. Two men walked into the Smoking Croaker, in the Capricorn Beach Complex, ...
Eco-tourism, urbanisation, crime and grime, unemployment and housing are just some of the issues candidates are campaigning on in Ward 64 as they square off for ...
The Cape Town International Kite Festival, the flagship fund-raiser for Cape Mental Health, suffered a tragic blow this year due to Covid-19. The 27th festival went ...
Veggies, clothes and toothpaste have gone organic and now politics too, it seems, if the Organic Humanity Movement is anything to go by. While the name might conjure ...
Covid-19 safety regulations will be firmly in place at all voting stations on election day, says the national Department of Health. And voters will not need to produce ...