Cape Times 2022-06-28

PUBLIC Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille says plans are in place for the further development of Hout Bay Harbour. The harbour was part of the department’s small harbours repair and maintenance programme aimed at the redevelopment of the 13 proclaimed fishing harbours in the Western Cape. The programme was expected to be fully completed by March 2022. DA MP Samantha Graham wrote to De Lille enquiring the amount spent on the Hout Bay Harbour as part of the Small Harbours Unit initiative and the details of the expenditure. Graham also asked whether there were any plans in place for the further development of the harbour. In her response, De Lille said the total amount spent in Hout Bay as part of the small harbours unit repair and maintenance…

THE Road Accident Fund (RAF) came under the spotlight yesterday when three Mpumalanga judges raised concerns about its ability to function, and asked how and when it would up its game. The president of the Mpumalanga Division of the High Court, Judge Francis Legodi, his deputy, Judge Sheila Mphahlele, and Judge Brian Mashile peppered the legal counsel acting for the RAF, Cedric Puckrin SC, with questions such as what contingency plans were in place when it fired its panel of attorneys in 2020. The judges made it clear that as things stood, the courts had to step in to ensure claims were dealt with adequately and to try to ensure that things ran smoothly. They said the courts were inundated with claims against the RAF daily, while it seemed the…

from page 1 in Observatory, Cape Town, last week, will go full steam ahead while they wait on the Supreme Court of Appeal’s decision. Earlier this month, LLPT filed an urgent application for leave to appeal against Goliath’s decision. “This phase of work will result in 380 construction workers coming back to work and earning an income again, pending the final determination of the applications for leave to appeal the judgment and orders handed down by Goliath. “Those applications suspend the operation and effect of the judgment and orders. Contrary to the recent claims made by the applicants in the media, the 6 000 direct jobs and 19 000 indirect jobs that will ultimately be realised as a result of this development proceeding will not be on a…

From page 1 and others were shouting ‘we are dying, guys’, and ‘we are suffocating’ and ‘there are people who can’t breathe’,” she told AFP. “I passed out at that moment. I was running out of breath and there was a strong smell of some type of spray in the air. We thought it was pepper spray.” Community Safety department spokesperson Unathi Binqose said the cause of death has not yet been determined. “We do not have any feedback on the cause of death at the moment. That will be revealed by the results of the post-mortems,” Binqose said. The Eastern Cape liquor board has since shut down the tavern. Its spokesperson, Mgwebi Msiya, said the board would lodge a criminal complaint against the owner once the police had finalised…

The Commission on Restitution of Land Rights is saddled with nearly 7 000 outstanding land claims that are yet to be finalised, dating back to the 1998 deadline for the submission of claims. The figure is separate from the more than 160 000 land claims that were yet to be processed when the commission was interdicted in 2019 by the Constitutional Court. This was revealed by Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Thoko Didiza when she responded to parliamentary questions from EFF MP Sam Matiase. Matiase said the Constitutional Court had in a ruling, commonly known as the Land Access Movement of South Africa (Lamosa) judgment, put in abeyance the processing of claims that were lodged between 2014 and 2016 until all land claims lodged by December 1998 were…

Survivors of the Enyobeni tavern tragedy in which 21 young people died in mysterious circumstances in East London on Sunday have come forward, detailing the events that occurred hours before the bodies were discovered. While a stampede has been ruled out, the cause of death is yet to be determined with speculation that the victims – most of them teenagers, the youngest only 13 – may have been exposed to some form of poison. Police spokesperson Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana said police received a report of the discovery of the bodies at 4am on Sunday. “The latest development now suggests that only one body remains unidentified in the local mortuary, and an appeal is made to parents or relatives who may have not seen their children since the past weekend to…