Vehicles top list of the city’s air polluters

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Rivalry between Durban and Cape Town has intensified over the years as they compete to become top sport, fashion or tourist attractions, but there is a more serious ...

Cape air dirtier than Durban’s

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Cape Town has the third-highest levels of air pollution in South Africa, with vehicles accounting for most of the ‘haze’.

Pitbull breeder runs foul of law

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Acting on a tip-off, Cape cops and the SPCA carried out a surprise raid on the home of suspected pitbull breeders.

Pitbull breeder runs foul of law enforcers

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Acting on a tip-off from a member of the public, law enforcement and the SPCA recently carried out a surprise raid on a house in Rocklands, Mitchells Plain, whose ...

Paramedics ‘shaken’ after robbery

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Three paramedics are "fairly shaken" after they were attacked at gunpoint while treating a girl in the back of an ambulance.

Adrenalin rush in an emergency vehicle

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Speeding through the streets of Cape Town at 3am at speeds in excess of 180km/h is most certainly a crime.

Tutu holding out hope

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As countries across the globe observe World TB Day today to raise awareness about the disease, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said while the progress made to contain ...

Dog fights go mobile

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Dogfighters are now holding their "contests" in the back of moving vans - to make it harder for cops to catch them.

Street kids becoming a growing menace

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Street children on glue or harder drugs are becoming more aggressive and prevalent at Cape Town's CBD. Aly Verbaan reports

The courageous Pollsmoor redemption

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Tracy van der Westhuizen, who was sentenced to seven years in Pollsmoor for fraud, says prison saved her life.

Woman’s efforts see DNA act go live

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It took 11 years but Vanessa Lynch has got what she wanted: a DNA database of criminals.

Woman’s efforts see DNA act go live

Aly Verbaan|Published

It took over a decade, but she did it.