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Cape winelands

Firefighters focusing efforts on preventing fire damage to farms in Touws River

By Shamiela Fisher

One fire was sparked by lightning on Saturday on mountains between Worcester and Roberston.

  • FILE: Picture: Zunaid Ishmael/Eyewitness News

    Major thunderstorm set to hit parts of WC within next 24hrs

    The South Africa Weather Service has issued a warning of disruptive rainfall over the Garden Route, Central Karoo, Cape Winelands and Overberg.

    248 days ago
  • Aletta Jantjies from Bella Vista survives on a disability grant and says she is unable to pay her electricity bill of R14,649. Picture: Marecia Damons/GroundUp

    Cape Winelands families want their lockdown electricity bills to be scrapped

    The Cape Winelands municipality is battling to recover from their steep outstanding bills.

    305 days ago
  • FILE: Parts of the Western Cape experienced heavy rain and flooding as a cold front made landfall in the province on 5 May 2021. The town of Struisbaai was one of the areas affected by the flooding. Picture: Supplied

    Cold, rainy weather across WC largely clearing up, but officials still on alert

    The storm has wreaked havoc, especially in areas such as the Cape Winelands and Overberg districts due to the severe flooding and strong winds.

    414 days ago
  • FILE: A helicopter bombs a runaway vegetation fire on the Cape Winelands. Picture: Regan Thaw/Eyewitness News.

    Cape Winelands firefighters attend to fire just outside Franschhoek

    The fire, which started in the Overberg a few days ago, spread into the Cape Winelands area late on Tuesday afternoon.

    487 days ago
  • FILE: A healthcare worker organises COVID-19 tests that were just administered at United Memorial Medical Center COVID-19 testing site in Houston, Texas Thursday, 25 June 2020. Picture: AFP.

    Garden Route showing early signs of levelling out of COVID-19 cases - Cloete

    The Western Cape's Head of Health, Dr Keith Cloete, said that cases in the Cape Metro remained on the increase and said that there were similar signs in the Cape Winelands.

    563 days ago
  • Western Cape Social Development MEC Albert Fritz. Picture: EWN

    Farm attacks probe at an 'advanced stage’ - MEC

    There were three incidents in the region last week. In one of them, Stefan Smit was killed on Louiesenhof Wine Estate on a Sunday evening.

    1112 days ago
  • The Cape winelands. Image: Dominic Morel/Freeimages.

    SAPS confirms third farm attack in Cape Winelands

    On Sunday, Stefan Smit was killed on Louiesenhof Wine Estate in Stellenbosch. On that same night, an elderly couple's house was broken into on a farm nearby.

    1117 days ago
  • Firefighters have been deployed after a blaze broke out in the Franschhoek Mountains. Picture: Kevin Brandt/EWN.

    Franschhoek blaze contained

    More than 6,000 hectares of vegetation was destroyed in the fire that erupted near the Cape Winelands town's mountain pass last Monday.

    1217 days ago
  • Working on Fire firefighters battle a fire near Franschhoek in the Western Cape on 19 February 2019. Picture: @wo_fire/Twitter

    Mop-up operations under way after Franschhoek fire

    The blaze broke out a week ago and has destroyed more than 60,000 hectares of vegetation.

    1217 days ago
  • Table Mountain in Cape Town. Picture: Refilwe Pitjeng/EWN.

    [OPINION] The Mother City: What a beauty

    Refilwe Pitjeng gives you a short itinerary of what she did in Cape Town and what travelling has done for her life.

    1897 days ago
  • The Hillcrest Berry Farm outside Stellenbosch suffered damage to its orchards overnight on 19 January 2016. Picture: Aletta Harrison/EWN

    ‘Replacing burnt vineyards will take years before delivering a harvest’

    The blaze has caused widespread devastation to farmland since Tuesday.

    2348 days ago
  • The City of Cape Town’s Disaster Risk Management Services say officials are on high alert after the South African Weather Service issued a warning for heavy rainfall and possible flooding. Picture: Katharyn Williams-Jaftha/EWN.

    Warning of heavy rainfall, possible flooding issued in the Cape

    Disaster Management officials are on high alert as informal settlements in low lying areas are also monitored.

    2429 days ago
  • FILE: About 180km highway will be tolled should Sanral succeed.

    Winelands Toll Project back in court tomorrow

    About 180km of the N1 and N2 highways will be tolled should Sanral succeed.

    2512 days ago
  • FILE: This the only evidence of the protest action on the parameter of Zwelethemba just outside Worcester. Xolani Koyana/EWN

    Zwelethemba residents protest over power

    Protester Nina Cekiso says they want the electricity that was promised to them last year.

    2677 days ago
  • FILE: Western Cape High Court dismissed Sanral’s bid to have information about the project kept secret. Picture: Siyabonga Sesant/EWN.

    Another legal victory against Sanral

    WC High Court dismissed Sanral’s bid to have information about the project kept secret.

    2858 days ago
  • FILE: DA members picket outside the Western Cape High Court against Sanral’s application to keep tolling details secret on 4 August 2014. Picture: Siyabonga Sesant/EWN.

    R2K campaign files urgent application against Sanral secrecy

    The campaign has given the court until 9 September to consider releasing the documents.

    2873 days ago
  • Sanral says the new proposed system will have a unmanned boom. Picture: EWN

    'CT toll will be different to Gauteng'

    Sanral says the new proposed system will have a manless boom.

    2876 days ago
  • FILE: DA members picket outside the Western Cape High Court against Sanral’s application to keep tolling details secret on 4 August 2014 . Picture: Siyabonga Sesant/EWN.

    Court to rule on Sanral privacy

    Sanral and the City of Cape Town have been locked in a legal battle over the N1/N2 Winelands project.

    2881 days ago
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