#westerncape — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/africa/427741/ Zimbabwean man gets two life terms for trafficking girl, 12, to SA #CrimeAndCourts #NationalProsecutingAuthority(NPA) #Rape #SexualOffences #trafficking #WesternCape #zimbabwe

Misty Evening

During a recent visit to Betty’s Bay the weather turned cold and rainy, with added mist which made for wonderful photography.

Misty Evening

During a recent visit to Betty’s Bay the weather turned cold and rainy, with added mist which made for wonderful photography.

https://www.europesays.com/africa/426653/ ‘HOW DARE SHE’ – Cape Town mom claims teacher made kids ‘gang up’ on her son #bullying #CapeTown #CapeTownSchool #education #Schools #SouthAfrica #wced #WesternCape #WesternCapeEducationDepartment

https://www.europesays.com/africa/425758/ 21 people killed in horror N1 Western Cape crash #crash #deaths #dozens #iol #LeeuGamka #MuneeraAllie #n1 #People #PrinceAlbert #SouthAfrica #WesternCape #WesternCapeMobilityDepartment

https://www.europesays.com/africa/425644/ Woman killed, 13 injured in three-taxi crash in Cape Town #BrowningRoad #CapeTown #IolNews #KevinJacobs #KleinKaroo #LeeuGamka #MinibusTaxis #n1 #N2 #NelsonMandelaBoulevard #People #PrinceAlbert #SouthAfrica #taxis #WesternCape #woman

https://www.europesays.com/africa/425252/ Monday weather: Heavy rain, severe storms, and damaging winds to lash parts of SA #EasternCape #FreeState #IolNews #KwaZuluNatal #Limpopo #mpumalanga #NorthWest #NorthernCape #SaSouthAfricans #SAWS #SouthAfrica #SouthAfricanWeatherService #Thunderstorms #Western #WesternCape

https://www.europesays.com/africa/424601/ Pensioner loses unlawful-eviction case after 16 days on Cape Town streets #ACT #bellville #CapeTown #city #CityOfCapeTown #DepartmentOfSocialDevelopment #GoldenAcre #haven #HavenNightShelter #MHolderness #malmesbury #MisterOfSocialDevelopment #napier #pensioner #PreventionOfIllegalEviction #QueenVictoriaStreet #SafeSpace #sassa #ShereeFoggitt #SouthAfrica #UnlawfulOccupationOfLandAct #upington #WesternCape #WesternCapeHighCourt #WesternCapeMecForSocialDevelopment

Langa urban garden feeds crèche, community to drive food justice https://www.allforgardening.com/1940282/langa-urban-garden-feeds-creche-community-to-drive-food-justice/ #backyard #BackyardGarden #BackyardGardening #ConsumerInterest #FoodGarden #FoodJustice #InspireMe #WesternCape

https://www.europesays.com/africa/415688/ Former Stellenbosch traffic official jailed for corruption after R5,550 bribes #BellvilleSpecialisedCommercialCrimesCourt #Driver'sLicenseAndTestingCentre #ElvisFrankNontyi #Hawks #NationalTrafficInformationSystem #RobinFrancke@iolCoZa #SouthAfrica #stellenbosch #StellenboschMunicipality #TrafficOfficial #WesternCape

https://www.europesays.com/africa/414093/ South Africa Averaged Nearly 60 Murders a Day in April-June, Crime Data Shows #CapeFlats #CapeTown #CrimeStatistics #gangs #GeordinHillLewis #GunViolence #Homicide #MurderRate #PublicSafety #saps #SouthAfrica #SouthAfricaPolice #ViolentCrime #WesternCape

https://www.europesays.com/africa/409538/ Three dead on the train tracks just days apart #FCVanWyk #life #LingelethuWest #LingelethuWestSaps #lynedoch #Newlands #RucheBasson #SouthAfrica #SpineRoad #stellenbosch #Train #TrainTracks #VanWyk #victim #VlottenburgPrimarySchool #WesternCape

https://www.europesays.com/africa/392378/ Cape Town stations dominate hijackings hotspot list #Alexandra #BellvilleSouthVehicleImpound #CapeTown #city #CityOfCapeTown #CommitteeMemberForSafety #DavidSinclair #delft #gauteng #george #GovanMbeki #Harare #JpSmith #Khayelitsha #KhayelitshaSaps #KwaZuluNatal #LawEnforcement #LingelethuWest #metro #mitsubishi #nyanga #PhilippiEast #PhilippiEastSaps #RenaultTriber #sheffield #SheffieldRoad #sinclair #SouthAfrica #stellenbosch #WesternCape #xpander

https://www.europesays.com/africa/355061/ Embattled TV doctor Pieter Henning dies in car crash #CrimeAndCourts #PieterHenning #SouthAfrica #stellenbosch #WesternCape

https://www.europesays.com/africa/324156/ Suspect vas after car chase #Betty'sBay #bothasig #brv #CapeTown #honda #ImmigrationAct #kleinmond #man #N2 #N2Road #National #Robberies #RobinFrancke@iolCoZa #SomersetWestCrimePreventionUnit #SomersetWestMagistrate'sCourt #SouthAfrica #stellenbosch #suspect #TableView #vehicle #WesternCape

https://www.europesays.com/ie/546912/ Stellenbosch-based artist selected for prestigious London Portrait Award on her first try #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsDesign #CapeTown #Design #Éire #Entertainment #GoodNews #IE #Ireland #stellenbosch #WesternCape

https://www.europesays.com/africa/271958/ Three Chinese nationals arrested as cops bust R9.75 million illegal liquor warehouse in Western Cape #AntiEconomicCrimesTaskTeam #chinese #IllicitGoods #IolNews #nationals #NdakheGwala #paarl #PaarlMagistrate'sCourt #Police #ProvincialCounterfeit #SarsCustoms #SouthAfrica #SouthAfricanPoliceService #stellenbosch #WesternCape

Gabrielle Union pays tribute to late father at South African wine estate

American actress Gabrielle Union announced that she had buried her father’s ashes on a Cap…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #SouthAfricanWine #act #actress #CapeTown #entertainment #Franschhoek #GabrielleUnion #localnews #LocalStories #movies #southafrica #WesternCape #Wine #WinefromSouthAfrica #WineofSouthAfrica
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2665570/gabrielle-union-pays-tribute-to-late-father-at-south-african-wine-estate/

Gabrielle Union pays tribute to late father at South African wine estate

American actress Gabrielle Union announced that she had buried her father’s ashes on a Cap…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #SouthAfricanWine #act #actress #CapeTown #entertainment #Franschhoek #GabrielleUnion #localnews #LocalStories #movies #southafrica #WesternCape #Wine #WinefromSouthAfrica #WineofSouthAfrica
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2665570/gabrielle-union-pays-tribute-to-late-father-at-south-african-wine-estate/

Gabrielle Union pays tribute to late father at South African wine estate

American actress Gabrielle Union announced that she had buried her father’s ashes on a Cap…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #SouthAfricanWine #act #actress #CapeTown #entertainment #Franschhoek #GabrielleUnion #localnews #LocalStories #movies #southafrica #WesternCape #Wine #WinefromSouthAfrica #WineofSouthAfrica
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2665570/gabrielle-union-pays-tribute-to-late-father-at-south-african-wine-estate/

Tidal Pool Swim

In Hermanus on Monday to collect our unsold paintings from an art gallery we decided a bit of tidal pool swimming was in order. We discovered Ficks Pool and decided that was the right thing to do.

The water was icy probably 16°C but still we swam and it was fun.

And I got caught by a wave!

We had coffee and a pizza in a restaurant overlooking the pool afterwards.

「Transnet personnel changes paying off

Coal export volumes railed to #RichardsBay were up more than 10% in the December quarter, and port backlogs are declining.

Then #PublicEnterprises Minister Pravin #Gordhan took a meat cleaver to the board.

In came #MineralsCouncil vice-president Andile #Sangqu as chair of #Transnet in July 2023, giving a voice to the company’s largest customer, the mining sector – accounting for roughly 80% of Transnet Freight Rail’s business and 50% of overall revenue. The board was loaded with engineers, industry representatives and labour, people who knew how to run an enterprise of this complexity.

Out went #Derby and #Mzimela, replaced by Michelle #Phillips as acting group CEO and Russell #Baatjies as acting CEO for freight rail.

Several former Transnet executives who left the organisation over the years have been lured back, including former programme director Marc Descoins.

#Havenga says several other former top executives have been roped into the Transnet recovery plan, many of them with salaries paid by #BusinessSouthAfrica.

Encouraging signs of progress

Writing in Moneyweb last week, Juanita Maree, CEO of the SA Association of Freight Forwarders – which sounded the alarm on Transnet a year ago – noted the encouraging signs of progress since business got involved in the #NLCC. The turnaround at #Durban Container Terminal Pier 2, with a recovery plan crafted and implemented by the crisis committee, will remove the vessel backlog by the end of this month.

“Cabinet’s approval and activation of the Freight Logistics Roadmap also opens the way for reviving a properly resourced, inter-modal, world-class logistics network for South Africa and the region,” says Maree.

Transnet seems to be embracing the collaboration with business:

[...]

The new management team led by Phillips and Baatjies has changed the culture and mood at Transnet, adds Havenga.

“The improvements we have seen in the last few months have all been achieved without massive investment in locomotives and wagons. These improvements are the result of operating smarter. Transnet has a rail network of about 21 000km, but virtually all of its rail revenue comes from just 1 500km of that network. That’s where we need to focus the attention.

“If we can improve turnaround times on the #Sishen-#SaldanhaBay railway line so we get trains turned around in 80 hours instead of 100 hours, that means we can run an extra train a day using the same rolling stock we have. And this can be done.”

The 861km Sishen-Saldanha line between the #NorthernCape and the port of Saldanha Bay in the #WesternCape handles most of the country’s iron ore exports, and its efficiency has had a direct impact on the revenue and profits of #Kumba Iron Ore and other iron ore exporters.

[...]

Perhaps Transnet has finally turned the corner and demonstrated what can be done when cadres are replaced by industry specialists.
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https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/transnet-personnel-changes-paying-off/

#SouthAfrica #GoodNews #StateCapture #Economy #TFR #TransnetFreightRail