Innholdsfortegnelse for 2025-03-31 i Daily Voice

POP star Justin Bieber took to Instagram with a series of posts that show that he and his family are very much a happy unit. The Biebs has been in the news for all the wrong reasons since the birth of his son, Jack Blues Bieber, seven months ago. There have been rumours that he is having financial problems and the Baby hitmaker and his wife Hailey are headed for Splitsville. All this while sharing pictures of himself smoking from a bong earlier this month. Fans on the internet have been heel vocal about his behaviour as he shared a number of posts about his struggle as a new father and the unresolved trauma of finding fame as such a young age. But this weekend, Justin came through sterk. On…

MUIZENBERG police have called on additional deployment into the informal settlement of Overcome Heights near Lavender Hill which has been riddled with gun violence this past week, leaving three people dead. Gun violence has been ringing throughout the community this week, with five people shot on Saturday, with two fatalities, and it is believed that around 15 people were shot in the last week only as it has been “a busy week in the precinct”. Police spokesperson Sergeant Wesley Twigg confirmed the incident and said that police deployments have been bolstered with the Anti-Gang Unit and other law enforcement agencies to monitor the situation and to maintain law and order. Twigg reports: “The deployments will focus on high density operations and visibility in order to restore calm to the area.…

WESTERN Cape Finance MEC Deirdre Baartman admits that overcrowded classrooms have become a concern, following teacher cuts. The Western Cape government has been under fire after it announced that it would not renew the contracts of 2 407 teachers by the end of last year. It meant that class sizes have grown from an average ratio of one teacher to 34.2 learners to one to 36.7. In her budget speech on Thursday, Baartman announced R500 million had been allocated to the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) over three years. However, their primary concern would be to add more schools, for which R2.298 billion has been budgeted for the same time period. Baartman said: “Our schools are witnessing an unprecedented increase in learner enrolment, which has resulted in overcrowded classrooms…

A MOTHER from Table View is desperately trying to get her daughter into a school to finish her matric after she was expelled from her private school due to extortion. The mother said that her 17-year-old daughter was expelled from Reddam House Atlantic Seaboard in Greenpoint after asking her “large group of friends” for money to help around the house as the family was facing financial difficulty. She added that over the period of two months her daughter accumulated around R5 000 in total. The mother explains: “She got expelled because she asked her friends and their parents for money unbeknownst to us as her parents. She’d tell them it’s to help us because we were struggling really bad financially as there were times we would go to bed without…