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The 2023 Western Cape floods were a devastating series of floods affecting the Western Cape province of South Africa as a result of heavy rainfall on 24-25 September 2023. [1] The flooding resulted in at least 11 fatalities, the closure of over 200 roads, and over 80,000 people being left without electricity.
The 2023 Cape Town taxi strike, also known as the 2023 Western Cape taxi strike, was a law enforcement dispute between minibus taxi operators in the Western Cape province of South Africa, as represented by South African National Taxi Council (SANTACO), and the City of Cape Town. [5]
The 2024 Western Cape wildfires are a series of forest fires in the City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.They led to the loss of 52,501 hectares of land, of which 15,587 hectares were on the CapeNature estate. 129 VIIRS fire alerts were reported between September 11, 2023, and September 16, 2024 (high confidence alerts), with 52 VIIRS fire alerts reported in 2024.
2 September – A bus veers off Van Rhyns Pass in the Western Cape and rolls down a hill, killing 10 and injuring 29. [ 37 ] 13 September – President Ramaphosa signs the Basic Education Laws Amendment into law, but suspends the implementation of two sections covering the language of instruction and admissions until December due to protests by ...
The party was founded in November 2023 in response to Western Cape premier Alan Winde denying the Western Cape a referendum on Cape independence in October 2023. [ 2 ] The Referendum Party does not seek to remove the Democratic Alliance (DA) from the Western Cape government, but to demand the Premier call a referendum as their coalition condition.
The official opposition in the Western Cape after the 2004 provincial election was the Democratic Alliance (DA), which received 27% of the vote in the provincial ballot. The City of Cape Town, the most populous municipality in the province, was governed by a multi-party coalition led by the DA after the 2006 municipal elections.
The 2019 Western Cape provincial election was held on 8 May 2019 to elect the 6th Western Cape Provincial Parliament. It was the sixth provincial election held since the establishment of the provincial legislature in 1994. Incumbent premier Helen Zille of the Democratic Alliance (DA) was term-limited and could not seek a third term.
In the Western Cape province, it appears as a daily; in other provinces, it is a weekly paper. The editorial seat is in Cape Town. The publishing house Naspers began to publish Die Son in 2003, after the large success of the English-language tabloid The Daily Sun in Western Cape, first under the title Kaapse Son ("Cape Sun"). The sales figures ...