On the minute News in the Weskus
Another young biker’s life was sadly cut short yesterday morning when he apparently lost control and spun off the road on the Saldanha/Vredenburg Road. Alvin Cloete, a former pupil of Hoërskool Aggeneys and a student at Cape Peninsula University of[…]
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“Die brand was in die middel van Natuurbewaring se stuk grond aan Hopefield se kant van die Elandsfontein-myn. Dit was ‘n koel, windlose aand en daar was geen glasstukke of iets wat ‘n spontane brand kon veroorsaak het nie, so[…]
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FORMER finance minister, Trevor Manuel, has demanded the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) “clean up its act” referring specifically to the controversial granting of a permit to mine phosphate next to the Langebaan Lagoon – part of the West Coast[…]
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Betrayal, fury, disillusionment, distrust and disbelief. These are some of the emotions Langebaan business owners and residents expressed after there seem to be no progress, interest or solutions offered for some shop owners who are still cut off from the[…]
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Padwoede oor die gesloer met die padkonstruksiewerk aan Langebaan se hoofstraat en besighede se gevolglike inkomsteverlies is stadig maar seker besig om in ‘n volskaalse padoorlog te ontwikkel. Sprake van hofsake en ‘n massa-aksie om ‘n mosie van wantroue in[…]
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Langebaan se blinknuwe en omstrede hoofstraat gaan dalk nog ‘n U-draai in die hof maak as ‘n skikking nie gou bereik word tussen ontnugterde besigheidseienaars en die Saldanhabaai Munisipaliteit nie. Van die winkeleienaars langs Oostewalstraat wat steeds afgesny is van[…]
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A festive Friday night birthday bash for the owner of the Sandbar Pub & Kitchen in Langebaan ended on a different kind of “high” note when two burglars who apparently tried to gate-crash the party through the roof were apprehended[…]
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Sommige ouer geslag joernaliste het geglo die waarheid oor omstrede kwessies kom altyd uit in kroegpraatjies. Derhawe was daar altyd ‘n paar ywerige manne wat maar te gretig was om dié noodsaaklike been van ondersoekende joernalistiek na-uurs te verrig .[…]
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OPE BRIEF UIT DIE HART: “Vir my het die vergadering sommer met ‘n slegte smaak in die mond begin toe ek hoor dat burgemeester Marius Koen nog onderweg is van Kaapstad en laat gaan wees. Raadslid André Kruger het voorgestel[…]
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♫The Langebaan road is long, with many a winding turns . . . that leads us to who knows where, who knows where . . . ♫ With apologies to The Hollies, the ongoing dispute over the prolonged road[…]
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