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(Photo: Flickr) It wants the city to become smoke-free.
The planned policies and by-laws would leapfrog,
the National Tobacco Bill that’s due to be enacted soon.
That bill bans outdoor smoking in all public places countrywide.
Zahid Badroodien, Cape Town’s mayoral committee
member for community services and health,
joined us via Skype to tell us more about the planned policies.

Following heavy downpours in recent weeks, the Western Cape
recorded its highest average dam levels in almost a decade.

A controversial multi-million-rand scooter project in the Eastern Cape has come to a screeching halt.

A Special Tribunal has stopped the provincial Health Department from paying more than R10 million for 100 motorbikes pending further investigation.

For more on this story, we spoke to Advocate Selby Makgotho, spokesperson for the Special Tribunal of South Africa.

The Eastern Cape local government says an investigation into OR Tambo District Municipality will be completed by next week.

The municipality is under investigation for alleged fraud and corruption.

Mbasa Khwaza has the story.

Residents of Ziphunzana village in Libode, Eastern Cape, have been left without access to clean water for years and took it upon themselves to install their own water pipes.

The municipality has now allegedly disconnected those pipes.

Mbasa Khwaza went to find out what the story is.

A critical bed shortage is emerging in the Eastern Cape as the province's public health system buckles,
due to a second surge of COVID-19 infections.

In Port Elizabeth, the three biggest informal settlements have been identified as local hotspots.

Natalie Malgas has the details.

Informal settlements in the Port Elizabeth area may be hardest hit by the latest wave of COVID-19 infections.

Doctors are noticing a high positivity rate coming from these densely populated areas and the increase in cases,

has led to a bed shortage in the public health system.

Natalie Malgas is in Port Elizabeth and has the latest update.

Eastern Cape health officials are bracing themselves for the possibility of a spike in COVID-19 cases.

The coastal province is expecting an influx of out of town visitors as the festive season approaches despite growing COVID-19 infections.

Meanwhile, district medical experts have gone into emergency mode to try and contain the virus.

Natalie Malgas, who recently visited the province, filed this report.

Eastern Cape police have arrested a 32-year-old man in connection with the murders a woman and her five children.

The suspect was arrested on Thursday evening in Ginsberg.

The man is suspected of killing the woman, believed to be his girlfriend, and her five children.

Mbasa Khwaza has been tracking the story.

A 32-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a gruesome family murder in the Eastern Cape.

He's suspected of hacking a woman, and her five children to death with an axe on Tuesday night.

The man will spend the weekend behind bars and is expected to appear in court on Monday.

Mbasa Khwaza has the details.