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It’s Like The Purge – Guy Fawkes Day Mayhem on Cape Flats

Hoolganism and Violence on Guy Fawkes Day – How British ‘Civilsation’ brought us this Uncivilised Chaos & Mayhem

by Ryan Swano 5 November 2024, 19:27 207 Views

For many in South Africa, and indeed for many living in Britain and in former British colonies across the world, Guy Fawkes is just a fun day to shoot fireworks or make bonfires. In certain parts of the Cape Flats, 5 November is a day of mayhem and chaos, and the fear of being injured […]

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Christmas Day Blazes Leave Cape Flats Families Destitute

Multiple Christmas Day Fires Destroyed Homes in Four Elsies River & Ravensmead Wards with Residents Desperately Needing Help

by Ryan Swano 26 December 2023, 16:09 1k Views 2 Votes

The high winds sweeping the Cape Peninsula on Christmas Day combined with the high density of ‘Backyard Dwellers’ on the Cape Flats is a potentially deadly combination when a fire breaks out. Multiple house fires on Christmas Day in four separate wards in Elsies River and adjacent Ravensmead, as well as fires in the days […]

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Matric Ball Debate Sparks Fly While At Least Two Cape Flats Schools Cancel

We ask: How Important is Having a Matric Ball as a Rite of Passage and What Lies Beyond Matric?

by Ryan Swano 8 October 2023, 21:14 2k Views 2 Votes

Make no mistake; this isn’t about whether our schools should or should not have Matric Balls. With our astonishingly high dropout rates for learners who start high school in Grade 8 but never make it to matric, we do need to have some form of celebration for those who have actually made it to the […]

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Band Aid SA Ensures Cape Flats NPO’s Benefit from Nedbank’s Blanket Drive

Band Aid SA Rounds Off Tail-End of Winter With Blankets Donated by Nedbank

by Ryan Swano 22 September 2023, 15:12 205 Views 0 Votes

Albeit we are in the middle of September, the exceptionally cold winter weather we are experiencing shows no signs of abating anytime soon. Band Aid SA, through their long standing relationship with Nedbank, have ensured that two local NPO’s affiliated to Band Aid SA will be able to bring some warmth into the lives of […]

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Experts Present Music Industry Masterclasses on the Cape Flats

Music Industry Experts Team Up with Selwyn Bartlett’s SCM Academy in Presenting Affordable & Easily Accessible Masterclasses

by Ryan Swano 22 September 2023, 11:43 331 Views 0 Votes

There are very few careers in which you can excel without any preparation or without equipping yourself with knowledge of the industry you are in. A music industry career is no different. You cannot simply rely on your talent alone. There is a reason it is called an ‘Industry’ and Selwyn Bartlett has identified the […]

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Cape Flats Girl & Bergvliet Boy got to make a Star Wars Film

by Ryan Swano 23 May 2023, 09:47 59 Views 1 Vote

From the Cape Town to a galaxy far, far away, the South African-made Star Wars short film Aau’s Song is an official Lucasfilm sanctioned animation short film now streaming worldwide oin Disney+. Co-directed by Capetonians Nadia Darries and Daniel Clarke, Aau’s Song is the final short film in the second volume of the Star Wars: […]

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Cape Town Hero from Heideveld Saves Drowning Women

Brandon Janeke from Heideveld risked his own life braving the cold rough sea at Bloubergstrand Beach to save two women who were drowning.

by Ryan Swano 5 October 2024, 23:57 2.4k Views 7 Votes

It was a 31°C Day across most of the Cape Peninsula today and many people headed out to Cape Town’s beaches to enjoy a swim in the sea. When two women found themselves in trouble in the cold and rough waters of Bloubergstrand Beach, Brandon Janeke, the Hero from Heideveld the Cape Flats wasted no […]

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Jazz On The Lawn 2023 is a Celebration of Cape Jazz Culture

Jazz on The Lawn Returns to Bevcan Sports Field with JOL2023 as an Authentic Experience of the Unique Cape Jazz Sound & Culture.

by Ryan Swano 12 November 2023, 16:51 636 Views 1 Vote

There’s no doubt that Jazz on The Lawn is now firmly established as a permanent fixture on the Cape Town Music Festival Calendar as a Celebration of Cape Jazz Culture. After the success of Cape Town’s most vibrant and Socially Interactive Jazz Festival that was held at Bevcan Sports Field in Epping Industria on 10 […]

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Free Film Screenings at Roots Culture Heritage & Decolonisation Week

The Weeklong Roots Culture Heritage & Decolonisation Week RCHD 2025 Includes a Number of Free Film Screenings Followed by Panel Discussions

by Ryan Swano 21 February 2025, 22:52 69 Views 0 Votes

RCHD Week Celebrates Roots, Culture and Heritage while Addressing The Decolonisation of Africa with a Focus on the Victories at the 1510 Battle of Salt River and the 1896 Battle of Adwa. It also commemorates the 140th anniversary of the Berlin Conference that fomented the multitude of colonial ills, continued exploitation and proxy wars that […]

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Ajay Wonderboy Christmas Song Touching Hearts All Over

Recently turned 12 years-old, Ajay Pienaar, better known by his stage name Ajay Wonderboy, has a new Christmas Song, Kersfees Sonder Jou, that is touching hearts all over.

by Ryan Swano 23 December 2024, 12:48 196 Views 0 Votes

Ajay Wonderboy, a rising star from Elsies River on the Cape Flats, has in the past few years built a reputation for mesmerising audiences with his powerful voice and his captivating stage presence, particularly with his renditions of Afrikaans songs and his performances as a lead singer in Malay Choirs. Albeit his first language is […]

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Springbok Player 24 Rene Naylor Officially Retires

Springbok Rugby Physiotherapist Rene Naylor known as Player 24 has Announced Her Retirement from Top Level South African Rugby.

by Ryan Swano 28 November 2024, 12:36 754 Views 1 Vote

Sports Physiotherapist Rene Naylor joined the Bok camp in 2008 and has since then played a crucial role in the South African Rugby Team’s success in numerous tests and tournaments with. Following the Springboks 45-12 victory against Wales over the weekend, Rene Naylor announced that it was her last Springbok test match as part of […]

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Miracles – Ajay Wonderboy, Craig Lucas, Carletheia & Zoe Zana

Ajay Wonderboy Live Performance of Miracle with Craig Lucas, Carletheia & Zoe Zana at his Britain’s Got Talent Fundraiser Concert

by Ryan Swano 21 November 2024, 13:46 201 Views 0 Votes

Ajay Pienaar, better known by his stage name Ajay Wonderboy, who has qualified for Britain’s got talent recently performed with an A-List of South African artists at his AJAY’S WONDERBOY’s Britain’s Got Talent Fundraiser Concert on the 17th of November 2024 at the Artscape in Cape Town. From The Cape Flats to Britain’s Got Talent […]

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