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Cape Town’s largest and free-of-charge public open-air event, the official switch-on of the festive lights, is to move to the Grand Parade this year in what is to be the event’s biggest production yet. Along with the big stage, spectacular performances, pyrotechnics and mass parade, the event will celebrate Cape Town’s icons through audio-visual tributes, under the theme ‘Our City, …

Family and Friends of the 20 concert goers who were injured earlier this evening should please contact Metro EMS on 021 931 9027. The City of Cape Town and Big Concerts confirm that twenty concert attendees were injured at the Cape Town Stadium this evening when a temporary scaffolding structure in the Stadium precinct collapsed due to high winds. The City’s …

The City of Cape Town and Big Concerts confirm that twenty concert attendees were injured at the Cape Town Stadium this evening when a temporary scaffolding structure in the Stadium precinct collapsed due to high winds. The City’s Emergency Services, including doctors, paramedics and Disaster Risk Management staff assisted immediately. The injured were treated on scene and have been taken …

The Sunday Times reports that cricket star Herschelle Gibbs has backed a “naive” reality-show contestant and wannabe teacher who was lambasted for her drunken on-air antics and “ignorant” comments. Come Dine With Me SA contestant Tamryn Calitz, 21, caused a frenzy among gob smacked viewers this week. She and the programme were among the most talked-about topics on Twitter after …

Long Live Halloween. It was around 6pm on Wednesday (31 October) that kids from around the Braemer – Wessels roads vicinity took to the streets in the true spirit of Halloween.The traditional trick or treat Halloween fare was the initiative of a group of Green Point residents whose initial point of contact was borne out of a concern for safety …

The City of Cape Town has been named the Best Beach Destination in Africa in the prestigious 2012 World Travel Awards. This comes after Lonely Planet awarded the City second place for the World’s Ten Best Beach Cities in 2011. Cape Town was then described as ‘good-looking, fun-loving, sporty and sociable’.  “Achieving this type of international recognition demonstrates that Cape …

A 30m southern right whale carcass has been spotted offshore near Capricorn beach in Cape Town, the city disaster risk management centre said on Sunday. “The whale carcass is approximately three kilometres past Sunrise Circle after Capricorn beach and can been seen from Baden Powell Drive,” said spokesperson Wilfred Solomons-Johannes. “It has been established that the whale has been bitten …

The City of Cape Town have opened Sea Point Promenade to cyclists, skateboarders and rollerbladers during Transport Month. The City of Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee Member for Transport, Roads and Stormwater, Councillor Brett Herron, has announced that as part of its efforts to build an Inclusive City, the City will be experimenting with lifting the prohibition on the use of bicycles, …

The City of Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee Member for Economic, Environment and Spatial Planning, Alderman Belinda Walker, today launched the Cape Town Activa Web Portal. The portal boasts a vast array of online resources, tools and links for those who want to start and develop a business or secure employment support in Cape Town.Cape Town Activa is a City initiative …

Picture and story by Herman R Gibbs The attempt to salvage the stranded Japanese fishing vessel, the Eihatsu Maru, will continue into Friday. The vessel ran aground on Clifton Beach in heavy fog early Saturday morning. The salvage team on Wednesday welded a bracket onto the vessel that can withstand the needed pull force, as well as transferring 90 – …