Blouberg, Blaauwberg, Cape Town – South Africa

A Big Bay, Bloubergstrand resident has come under fire in his home early on Friday when he confronted armed intruders who had managed to break through electric fencing to gain access to a security complex.
The burglars broke into the house in Sandown Estate in a smash-and-grab style raid at about 3am.A neighbour said the robbers [...]

Five armed men stole R155 000 from a construction company that was about to pay out monthly wages to its workers on Friday, and fired shots at staff who chased them.
“It was just after 1pm. Most of us Muslims were at mosque but when we got back I was told about the robbery and shooting,” [...]

“Santa Claus” paedophile James McNeil has chosen to stay in Pollsmoor Prison, rather than be released on parole, because he’s not happy with his parole conditions.Described by a social worker in court in 2003 as a paedophile who couldn’t be rehabilitated, McNeil was due to be released this week under strict parole conditions.
His lawyers were [...]

He allegedly robbed a woman of her cellphone, made her withdraw R1 000 from an ATM and forced oral sex on her in Table View on December 1.
Yep.. you read right. He now awaits bail.
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“The shark then began swimming away. Glen (Brown) said he continued to monitor the shark as it moved away until it was out of sight and lost beneath the sea surface,” said Lambinon.The honeymoon couple, Johan and Candice Fouche from Tableview in Cape Town who also happen to be professional photographers, took pictures of the [...]

Mother’s Day for some
A young organisation, not all the members of SAWISE will be on the receiving end of Mother’s Day, obviously. Some of them are new to motherhood.
Diane Wilcox, a UCT mathematician and prominent SAWISE member, will be celebrating her first Mother’s Day. Her son Aidan is seven months old. Diane was in the [...]

Last month the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) made a surprise bid to buy out CBS Property, the highly rated Cape-based property fund. The PIC, which basically represents the Government Employees Pension Fund, already holds 13% of CBS.If the deal is successful it will follow hard on the heels of a host of similar deals, most [...]

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 10 May, 2007 : – – Big Bay at Bloubergstrand will be the venue for South Africa’s most prestigious junior surfing series when the third stop on the five-event, R220 000 Billabong Junior Series is staged there next week. While the spectacular backdrop of Table Mountain and the fun beach break [...]

AN internet technology student from Blouberg has caused a stir in academic circles by achieving his Master’s degree cum laude only a year after receiving his BTech degree cum laude, which followed the year after completing the National Diploma in IT cum laude.
This hat trick could be the first of its kind at the Cape [...]

Medium-term planning for improving infrastructure between the Cape Town International Airport and the central business district did not include a proposed over-rail link running on the N2 at present, Western Cape Transport MEC Marius Fransman said.
But the MEC said government was not saying that this was “a no-no”.
Fransman, speaking at the Cape Town Press Club, [...]

SHOP owners and businesses at the Boy de Goede Circle in Blouberg Road are losing customers and patience. Nobody wants to listen to their problems, they say. Their business prospects are being destroyed and they are now at their wits’ end.
Commensurate with unemployment in the area, conditions at Boy de Goede has steadily grown worse. [...]