Elsies River has been experiencing multiple shootings in the Leonsdale area. The shots have been heard from 11th, 12th and 14th Avenue. Three people were injured, and one person was left dead in the recent violence. People are reporting the incidents to the police, but the shootings continue. Brave and vigilant citizens are making videos and recording a young man shooting with an older man 'watching over him'.
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Judge Pearl Andrews from the Western Cape High Court believes that a third person was involved in Janika Mello’s rape and murder. Leeroy Rose and Allester Abraham were both found guilty on two charges of rape and one of murder. Judge Andrews said that the manner in which Janika was killed was particularly gruesome. The cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma to the head and neck and the consequences thereof. The extent of the injuries rendered her unrecognisable as she was bludgeoned to death. As if this were not enough, she was sexually violated. Her assailants’ level of disrespect is displayed, as they did not even cover her naked body. They were sentenced to 80 years behind bars on Friday. Judge Andrews also ordered that their names be entered into the National Sex Offenders Registry. They will never be allowed to work with children.
A lack of trained teachers who are proficient in indigenous languages is a huge challenge in mother tongue education at foundation phase. That’s how the Dean of the Faculty of Education, Professor Rajenjaan Govender, at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), describes the current situation at the tertiary institution in Bellville. This comes after the Progress International Reading Literacy 2021 Study found that seven out of every ten South African learners at the Grade 4 level cannot read with comprehension.
The university's Professor Govender says the aim of the newly established Education Center for African Language Teaching is to address the challenge. Govender says the teaching of an indigenous language, such as isiXhosa, is what they want to focus on, and they want to strengthen the teaching of it at schools as well as the literacy development of their university learners. He added that they want to work in combination with parents, teachers, and the Western and Eastern Cape Education Departments. These two provinces have been identified where most of the teachers teach isiXhosa and have isiXhosa learners who speak the language on a daily basis, which they have to focus on as an educational engagement.
A 28-bulk sewer pipeline upgrade, which is South Africa's largest of its kind, by the City’s Water and Sanitation Directorate is making significant progress. According to the city, this project aims to improve sanitation services for approximately two hundred seventy thousand households in Cape Town’s southern suburbs. The city's Mayoral Committee Member for Water and Sanitation, Zahid Badroodien, says the city has invested over two hundred and thirty million rand for the current 2023–2024 financial year and will invest over two hundred and sixty million rand over the next two financial years. Noel Ruiters has more on the story.
This bulk sewer serves an estimated eight thousand-hectare catchment area across the Cape Flats. The areas which were identified for the upgrade are Athlone, Hanover Park, Lotus River, Ottery, Grassy Park, Eagle Park, Pelican Park and surrounding areas. Since the Cape Flats Bulk Sewers were originally built in the 1960s, residential and business areas have expanded. Meanwhile, underground, the pipeline is profiled by a robotic crawler, which uses lasers to record the state of the inside of the pipe. Badroodien says the upgrade will extend this infrastructure's lifespan by an estimated 100 years to the benefit of the city's residents.
SOURCE: www.capetown.gov.za
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