Innholdsfortegnelse for 2025-10-16 i Daily Voice

IT WAS chaos on the corner of Owen Road and Clare Street in Elsies River when smash-and-grabbers sent police on a wild chase, causing them to crash into a City of Cape Town van. The incident took place on Tuesday around 1pm, causing minor to severe injuries to officials. According to residents, the area is a hotspot for “Uber robbertjies” who target cars and e-hailing vehicles. The residents claim that the incident was caused when robbers tried to rob an e-hailing driver but went on the run when cops arrived on the scene. Crashed When the officers tried to chase down the suspects, they crashed into a City of Cape Town Quantum. The street had to be cordoned off as authorities attended to the scene and the injured victims. Members…

AS I’M writing this, Alistair Izobel’s rendition of My Broetjie my Bra is vibrating through my ear canal and straight into the depths of my soul. Love the pace the guitarist next to Alistair brings to the Taliep Petersen and David Kramer classic. The song hits deep. Always has. It takes me back to my days as a laaitie. As a kid growing up in the late 80s, early 90s, the opening lyrics of this song, “He never knew his dada”, pulled me in from the word go. See, like many of you out there, I lost my father when I was very young. Five months old, to be exact. I never met him. They say I look like him and apparently I have the same sense of humour. Other…

CAPE Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has hit back at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s attack on the City’s service delivery to poor areas in the metropole. Ramaphosa kicked off the bekgeveg during a session of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Tuesday, when he said that Mother City bosses were not making the lives of poor people better with a R40 billion, three-year, service delivery budget. The president has come under fire for backtracking after telling ANC municipal councillors that Democratic Alliance (DA)-run municipalities are run better than their own last month. Addressing a question from DA provincial chief whip Frederick Badenhorst, who asked him to set the record straight, he said: “You may look at the audit, but in the end what matters is the impact on the lives of…