Seven families who live, or lived, in Bromwell Street, Woodstock, are unhappy about the prospect of moving to Wolwerivier. The move for the 16 adults and 11 children would be temporary. The Woodstock Hub bought the houses that they stayed in in 2013, and an eviction order was granted inRead More

What happens when a whale strands on your part of the coast? An upheaval, that’s what. It took three men three months to rehabilitate a part of the Blaauwberg Nature Reserve’s coastal section after the whale’s carcass had to be removed from the site. The whale had stranded at theRead More

Wolwerivier: According to the head of the Philadelphia police, Captain Frederick Rossouw, a man (who is described as being older than 18) died on Sunday night as a result of being stabbed in Wolwerivier. The stabbing took place recently. The victim and his assaillant had apparently been quarrelling. According toRead More

Give homeless people a hand up, rather than hand-outs. This was the message which councillor Nora Grose delivered at a meeting in Duynefontein last week. Grose rolled out her vision for organised assistance for the people of Olive Close and Wolwerivier, as well as the homeless. She said, “We willRead More

  A new chapter has started in the lives of the people of Ou Wolwerivier. They moved into corrugated iron homes in the new part of the settlement on Friday. But after the first night a woman reported exhausted, “Our neighbours are tikkoppe. The people don’t sleep at all. TheyRead More

Die inwoners van ou Wolwerivier trek binnekort na baksteenhuise met elektrisiteit. Dis net oor die veldjie, maar op ‘n manier is dit ‘n wêreld ver van hierdie plek waar almal soos familie voel. Hier’s verligting en onsekerheid in mense se harte. Dis vreedsamer as vreedsaam op Wolwerivier wanneer ek besoekRead More

‘n Uitblinker-tiener van Wolwerivier kan net bedags studeer weens gebrek aan elektrisiteit. Snags is ook ‘te woelig,’ vertel Rochelle Sylvester. Rochelle (byna 16) is een van die sterre in die ou Wolwerivier nedersetting buite Melkbosstrand. Die graad 11 leerder lyk skaam wanneer die gemeenskapswerker Magdalene Minnaar haar naderroep en sê,Read More

Magdalene Minnaar se dogter is 23 jaar gelede van haar gesteel. Sy’t een troos gehad waaraan sy vasgeklou het in die jare wat gevolg het. Dat die dief, wat die kind se oppasster was, lief was vir haar kind en haar nie ‘n “werkslaaf” sou maak nie. Wanneer Magdalene (51)Read More