Alutha. sur Twitter : "Racism in Stellenbosch Uni. I AM DISGUSTED!!! (Please RT to expose this nonsense!)... Tracey sur Twitter : "@CapeTown @CityofCT litter on Camps Bay beach. Tourists or locals either way very sad. Mademoiselle111 : This asshole is driving like... Chaos at Home Affairs foreshore building | Groundup. The incident happened when police attempted to restore sanity to the chaos that now characterizes the DHA process. Clayton asked the security guards who controlled the queue if he could be served first because he was in pain but was refused and told he should go back and join the queue like everyone else.
Clayton said he came to the Foreshore offices at 5am hoping to be served by the end of business hours on Monday. His asylum document was set to expire on the same day. He is worried that he might be deported or penalised for late renewal since he will not be able to return to Home Affairs for some time due to his injury. When he asked the security guards to organise an ambulance for him they refused. Clayton's story is just one example of the daily chaos and unfriendly environment at the DHA Foreshore in Cape Town. Children, pregnant women and the disabled have a particularly hard time. There used to be more order to the system. The police come often because of the many fights. AudioEvoZA : @JPSAorg @CapeTown pathetic!! Witter / CapeTown : #capemusic fans, sorry to share: ... 4everEllle : Taxi knocks down 3 people whilst... Tourists chased off for not tipping - Western Cape. An incident in which a Kalk Bay restaurant chased away a patron who apparently didnt leave the waitress a decent tip has raised questions on local tipping etiquette, and what amount is considered reasonable for good service.
A patron who witnessed the incident at Cape to Cuba in Kalk Bay wrote to the Weekend Argus to explain. File photo by Leon Lestrade. Cape Town - An incident in which a Kalk Bay restaurant chased away a patron who apparently didn’t leave the waitress a decent tip has raised questions on local tipping etiquette, and what amount is considered reasonable for good service. A patron who witnessed the incident at Cape to Cuba in Kalk Bay last Friday wrote to the Weekend Argus to explain.
“There were some people from Gauteng… they tipped the waitress 5 percent instead of the expected 10 percent. The restaurant did not respond to a request for comment. However, comments left on Tripadvisor – an international tourism ratings website – indicated it was not the first time. Uwc_src: SRC has called. Varsity in 'gaybashing' row. A security guard working for the University of the Western Cape allegedly stood passively by, seemingly dismissive of the attack, on Sunday morning.
Now Glenton Matthyse, a cross-dresser, law student and gay rights activist, has had enough of homophobic and "transphobic" behaviour on campus. Matthyse and two other transgender students were injured when they tried to fight off the three attackers. Matthyse said one of the attackers grabbed one of his friends from behind. "She fell to the ground and then he dragged her for 2m from the entrance and began a severe physical assault," said Matthyse.
"His two friends pitched in and assisted in assaulting her. Matthyse claimed security staff allowed the perpetrators into the building to hide. The drama started on Saturday night at the university's pub, where Matthyse and his friends - all members of Gayla-UWC - were forced to use the men's toilet. While in drag, Matthyse was groped by a man, and patrons hurled insults at them. The great NGO funding crisis. For 36 years, Rape Crisis has been the first number to call for many Capetonians who have experienced sexual assault. Their team of 16 employees and 80 volunteers has provided both practical and emotional support to rape survivors, stepping in to fill the gap left when government resources fall short. But as of the beginning of July, a lack of funding has meant that retrenchment notices were served from the board of trustees to the organisation’s entire staff, with the exception of director Kathleen Dey. Dey was putting a brave face on things to the Daily Maverick on Monday.
“Our services have always been largely volunteer-staffed, and the quality of our volunteers compares favourably with professionals in many cases,” she explained. “It’s the support and co-ordination of their efforts that we are going to have to figure out.” Dey will keep things running until the end of February 2013, after which point the organisation may have to re-assess the feasibility of continuing to operate.
RudolphCT : @CapeTown. Not cool man. h... Cape Town lesbians live in fear - Cape Times | IOL.co.za. Brenda Matabata and other friends attend the memorial service for Phumeza Nkolonzi, a 21-year-old lesbian shot dead. Several lesbians at the service had to be escorted as they feared being attacked. Photo: Courtney Africa Lesbians in some Cape Town townships live in such fear of attack by people who reject their sexual orientation that a group who went to a lesbian’s memorial service on Thursday were too afraid to enter Nyanga without an escort. “We had to go and fetch them.
We had to call some and tell them to avoid a few spots. They were really scared of going into the area,” Free Gender founder Funeka Soldaat said as about 100 people gathered in Nyanga for a memorial service for Phumeza Nkolonzi, a 21-year-old lesbian who was shot dead two weeks ago. Soldaat said at a meeting earlier this week that activists had asked police to patrol the area where Nkolonzi lived and to be visible while her family and friends held the service. “They called us names and tried to rob us.
Cape Times. Am. Facebook. Cops delete Bush Radio journo’s photos « Bushradio 89.5 FM. This afternoon at about 15h30 Bush Radio trainees were alerted that members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) had stopped and were searching a vehicle just outside its building in Salt River. As this was a potential story, trainees went downstairs to see what was happening and cover it for Bushradionews. As the trainees were collecting information and pictures, a police officer proceeded to come over to Busi Mtabane (host of Sakhisizwe) and remove her phone and deleted the pictures she had taken. Other trainees and Bush Radio’s Managing Director, Brenda Leonard had to intervene to retrieve the phone which was handed back after the pictures were removed.
Below is a series of pictures of the incident taken by Programme Integrator, Adrian Louw. Brenda Leonard has indicated that we will be taking this matter further after we have consulted with different media freedom organisations. Busi Mtabane (far right) taking pictures of the incident The police officer demanding the cellphone. Many SA girls 'forced into prostitiution'
Busting a Cheetah Skin Seller : South Africa. The seller laid the skin out for me to examine Cape Town, South Africa, December 21, 2011 — I have just returned from a 9-day trip through the remote North West Province and the Karoo in the Eastern Cape. It is my day off and I fully intend to do nothing other than stroll around beautiful Cape Town without purpose. In famous Greenmarket Square, while buying some gifts for friends back home, I notice a seller has something that looks like a spotted skin. I can’t believe the sight; it lies under a pile of springbok skins, but in full view. I ask the seller what it is and he replies with a big grin, “It’s a leopard!” “No, this isn’t a leopard it’s a cheetah.” “No it’s a LEOPARD.” The seller tried to convince me this is a leopard, but after some discussion he admitted it is indeed a cheetah. We go back and forth like this for a minute and I finally ask him to unfold the skin so I can see it better. The selling without a permit of any spotted cat skin is illegal in South Africa.
SimonF. Helen Zille: @brettherron pls act. "@We... Biggest SA spammers named & shamed « MyBroadband #CapeShame | SocialSharing. WWE wrestlers robbed in Cape Town. After flying a domestic flight from Johannesburg to Cape Town on Tuesday, the wrestlers found that their luggage had been broken into, with valuable items missing. The series is currently on a tour of the country. Randy Orton – popularly known as the Viper – tweeted in the early hours of this morning: “Landed in Capetown a few hours ago. Beautiful here. Too bad over half the roster had various items stolen out of they're checked luggage (sic).”
John Langford, chief operating officer of Big Concerts – the promoters of the tour – said when the luggage came off the carousel, the WWE bags had been broken into. “The bags that had locks on them had been targeted,” he said. Langford said this was embarrassing for South Africa as a country and for “[Big Concerts] as the organisers.” He declined to name which wrestlers had been robbed of their belongings. The WWE stars are due to play five shows from 6 – 10 July in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. #CapeShame #Katanga no warning at P1 GROUND Floor CT Intl Air. CapeTown Tweetwall for #CapeShame - Tweetwally. Trends in Cape Town, South Africa. #capeshame RT @VampyreJourno: bakkie of young guys - Twitter conversation. Bakkie (reg CA 568 413) of guys who called a @BigIssueZA vendor over and then threw water over her. Assholes! | Plixi.
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