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WESLEY FORD

Community Reporter

Doccie tells story of returning D6 woman

WESLEY FORD|Published 2 months ago

“This is part of my legacy, and I want to encourage the youth to always remember where they come from,” says Soraya Martheze who is the subject of a short documentary ...

Muslim cemetery gets nod for morgue

WESLEY FORD|Published 2 months ago

The Mowbray Muslim Cemetery received City permission earlier this month to build a dedicated morgue at the site. “These approvals included provisions for a washroom, ...

World Read Aloud Day fun at Red Cross

WESLEY FORD|Published 3 months ago

Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis and City librarians shared the joy of reading at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital on World Read Aloud Day, ...

Glitz, glam at the Met

WESLEY FORD|Published 3 months ago

Ward 58 councillor, Dr Richard Hill, and his wife, Monique NautaGretchen Muller, of Gordon’s Bay, left, and Lauren Snyders, of RondeboschJalene Burger, left, and ...

Health services brace for busy festive season

WESLEY FORD and Staff Reporter|Published 4 months ago

The province’s hospitals are bracing for the usual spike in trauma cases over the festive season, say health officials. At the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s ...

Children’s rights need actions not words

WESLEY FORD|Published 5 months ago

“We can no longer tolerate our children going hungry, dying of poison, being shot or joining gangs,” says early childhood development expert Professor Eric Atmore. ...

Young film-makers have chance to shine

WESLEY FORD|Published 5 months ago

High school pupils got to show off their film-making skills at an open air film festival hosted by the Cape Town Museum of Childhood in Rondebosch on Friday November ...

Woodside makes festive season appeal

WESLEY FORD|Published 5 months ago

Woodside Special Care Centre is making a public appeal for support for a Santa Shoebox initiative in aid of the home’s intellectually and physically disabled residents ...

Arise guides the way through adoption process

WESLEY FORD|Published 5 months ago

“Adoption can be a lonely experience, and it really helps to have other people who are experiencing a similar path,” says adoptive parent Jocelyn Newmarch. World ...

Soldiers of the past help children of today at Red Cross

WESLEY FORD|Published 5 months ago

Children must be protected from preventable ills, such as malnutrition, foetal alcohol syndrome and violence, so that the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital ...

Keeping Mam Lydia’s memory alive

WESLEY FORD|Published 6 months ago

The late trade unionist and member of Parliament, Lydia Kompe-Ngwena, is the subject of Lydia: Anthem to the Unity of Women, written by Dr Kally Forrest and launched ...

Spreading smiles across Africa

WESLEY FORD and Staff Reporter|Published 6 months ago

Spreading the highly specialised and life-changing surgical skills needed to bring smiles to the faces of children with facial deformities was the aim of a conference ...

Best College marks a milestone

WESLEY FORD|Published 6 months ago

Former teachers and staff of a non-profit college in Salt River joined its 25th anniversary celebrations on Thursday last week. The Basic Education and Skills Training ...

Blind take part in long cane rally in Sea Point

WESLEY FORD|Published 6 months ago

Over 200 members of the blind community took part in a long cane rally on the Sea Point Promenade on Saturday October 5. The long cane rally was organised by the ...

Stay positive, says teen cancer survivor

WESLEY FORD and Staff Reporter|Published 7 months ago

When Mitchell’s Plain teen Chad Payne was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 15 it came as a shocking blow to his parents. “I did not expect this. When he got diagnosed, ...

Sighted glimpse world of blind at Dinner in the Dark

WESLEY FORD|Published 7 months ago

The sighted had a chance to “see” what it’s like to be blind during a dinner in pitch darkness last week. About 70 guests were led by the hand into a darkened room ...

Sex workers step out of the shadows

WESLEY FORD|Published 7 months ago

The continued criminalisation of sex work in South Africa means sex workers must still largely work in the shadows enduring the dangers that come with that, says ...

R20m project to help performing arts hit the road

WESLEY FORD and Staff Reporter|Published 7 months ago

Performing artists will find it easier to take their work on the road, reaching wider audiences around the country thanks to a joint project that plans to plough ...

Young dancers get their chance to ‘Bloom’

WESLEY FORD|Published 8 months ago

Young ballet dancers will have a chance to shine in Bloom, ...

Castle exhibition celebrates Africa’s queens

WESLEY FORD|Published 8 months ago

Woodstock artist Chantal Coetzee is shining a light on Africa’s queens and female leaders in her new exhibition launched at the Castle of Good Hope on Women’s Day ...

Blind women urged to invest in themselves

WESLEY FORD|Published 8 months ago

Blind and visually impaired woman had their moment to shine during a celebration last week in honour of Women’s Day. The Invest in Women event, attended by about ...

Thirty years of giving children a better start in life

WESLEY FORD|Published 9 months ago

The Centre for Early Childhood Development, in Claremont, marked 30 years of helping children, last Thursday, in Rylands, with a celebration attended by more than ...

Child-centred organisation to host adoption conference

WESLEY FORD|Published 9 months ago

The Arise non-profit, whose mission it is to see children thriving through fostering strong family relationships, will be having an adoption conference in September. ...

Amy Foundation celebrate entrepreneurs on Mandela Day

WESLEY FORD|Published 9 months ago

Dikonelo Makhetha from Mfuleni displaying her sewing merchandise. Oluhle Nkebe and Phakana Ndela from Khayelitsha show off their designs. Show off their beauty and ...

Textile exhibition

WESLEY FORD|Published 9 months ago

Dr Elbe Coetsee with some of her textile art work. Beverley Gillespie, of Green Point, with her work, Them-Us-We. Gina Niederhumer, of Muizenberg, with Days at the ...