News and Speeches
City Response to Shark Presence off its Coastline and the Threat to Recreational Users
13 August 2006"The City extends its sympathies to Achmat Hassiem and is saddened when an accident like this takes place especially on a young person who has dedicated so much of his own time as a lifesaver in an effort to make Cape Town's beaches safer for other... Read More
Community Schools Initiative Week - Premier and MEC Help with School Vegetable Garden
13 August 2006Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool and Education MEC Cameron Dugmore will on Wednesday 16 August help children, teachers and parents plant seeds for the vegetable garden of the Kenmere Primary School in Kensington (08h00). Read More
Some City Customers Affected due to Meter Reading Unit Changes
13 August 2006As a result of operational requirements to improve water meter reading within the City of Cape Town, it was necessary to swap certain meter reading portions within the erstwhile Cape Town Administration areas. Read More
Start of Enquiry into Metro Police in Helderberg
13 August 2006The Independent Committee of Enquiry appointed to investigate allegations of poor management, negligence, and transgressions of the law within the Helderberg branch of the Metro Police started its work today. Read More
Western Cape Provincial Parliament to Focus on Provincial Issues
13 August 2006A special debate on government's reaction to the recent floods in the southern Cape, as well as gangsterism, the new Green Point Stadium for the 2010 soccer World Cup tournament and municipal matters are some of the important provincial issues that... Read More
Western Cape Schools Inspired by Minister's Call for Community Involvement
13 August 2006'Adopting' an informal settlement; cleaning up the neighbourhood; repairing vandalised school buildings; a special treat for the elderly; pampering nurses; parents reading to their children, teachers visiting the homes of absent learners;... Read More
Siyabulela Deliverables Campaign - Training of 900 Pre-school Teachers
10 August 2006The training of 900 pre-school teachers throughout the province will lead to significant improvement in the quality of early childhood development (ECD), and boost the Western Cape Education Department's (WCED) Literacy and Numeracy Strategy. Read More
Awareness Campaign on the Usage of Female Condoms
8 August 2006"Your sexual health are now in your own hands," Minister Uys said today at the launch of a awareness campaign on the usage of female condoms. The event coincide with National Womens Day. Minister Uys said through this initiative the Department of... Read More
MEC Answers Questions on School Safety and Teacher Development
7 August 2006Infrastructural measures can assist with crime control, but they are not the ultimate solutions. We need to develop sustained crime prevention structures and strategies as well as improve the socio-economic conditions in the high risk school... Read More
Mitchells Plain Honours Sports Stars on Women's Day
7 August 2006Local sports stars and administrators such as marathon athletes, Gawa Mentoors and Ursula Frans, will be honoured at a Women's Day function presented by the Mitchells Plain Sub Council. Read More
West Coast Citizens to Visit Western Cape Provincial Parliament
6 August 2006Interest groups of women, youth, elderly and the disabled from the West Coast will for the first time visit their provincial parliament in Cape Town tomorrow. Read More
Immunisation Awareness Week: 6-12 August 2006
3 August 2006Introduction Every year, a week is allocated on the health promotion calendar to raise awareness around immunization. Read More
Breastfeeding Awareness Week: 2006
2 August 2006Press release by Minister Pierre Uys, Minister of Health in the Western Cape on Breastfeeding Awareness Week : 1-7 August 2006 The theme for World Breastfeeding Week is: Code Watch 25 Years of protecting Breastfeeding Read More
Breastfeeding Awareness Week: 2006
2 August 2006Press release by Minister Pierre Uys, Minister of Health in the Western Cape on Breastfeeding Awareness Week : 1-7 August 2006 The theme for World Breastfeeding Week is: Code Watch 25 Years of protecting Breastfeeding Read More
WCED Working With Engineering Industry to Support Teachers
2 August 2006The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) is working with various role-players in the engineering industry, to develop in-service training programmes for teachers who teach mathematics, science, technology and related subjects in Grades 10 to 12. Read More
Western Cape Schools Excel in National Computer Olympiad
1 August 2006Out of a record number of 31,926 students from 433 schools around the country, no less than eight of the 15 finalists for this year's National Computer Olympiad are from the Western Cape - of which three each from Rondebosch and Stellenberg high... Read More
Joint press Release (Premier and Health Ministry) on Reaching Target for Cervical Cancer Screening
31 July 2006Cervical cancer is a disease which is preventable and curable if discovered in time through a pap smear, Premier Rasool said at the start of National Womens month. Read More
Cervical Cancer Awareness
31 July 2006"Cervical cancer is a disease which is preventable and curable if discovered in time through a pap smear, " Premier Rasool said at the start of National Womens month today. Read More
Sponsorship for Bellville South High School
31 July 2006Six learners from Bellville South High jetted off to China on 1 August 2006 (Tuesday) to represent South Africa in an international youth entrepreneurial competition. Read More
Western Cape Provincial Parliament Supports Good Governance and Peace
30 July 2006Mr Shaun Byneveldt, Speaker of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament (WCPP), leads a multiparty delegation of Western Cape parliamentarians to a conference hosted by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA). Read More
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