Innholdsfortegnelse for 2025-11-06 i Daily Voice

BLACK Friday savings are only real if you are paying in cash or debit card linked to money in the bank, or any other method of payment which does not involve interest. Any other form of payment – especially those with high interest rates – just cost you more, and you save nothing. Marketing campaigns for all these “specials” seem to start earlier every year. This year I saw them in October already ahead of the big day on 28 November. Every year after the Black Friday hype – price comparisons prove that many Black Friday “savings” are often just marketing tricks to make consumers think they are getting something for cheaper – when they actually aren’t. In certain stores, prices are inflated, only to be “lowered” for Black Friday.…

AFTER a brutal attack on her three-year-old daughter by a klipgooier, a Manenberg mom is out for justice. Ashca Francis, 26, told the Daily Voice that she and her meisiekind Carla, 3, were standing in front of their door when a teen threw a stone that struck the little girl innie gesig on 13 October. Carla was knocked cold and covered with blood from the gash on her face. Following a number of surgeries, the meisie is too skaam to show her disfigured face. Attack An emotional Ashca told the Daily Voice that when she saw the boys before the attack, she told them not to throw stones in the neighbourhood. But one outjie was sterkgevriet, with Ashca explaining: “His friends stepped back and he walked last and as he…

WESTERN Cape ANC provincial secretary Neville Delport has left the African National Congress (ANC) to join the Democratic Alliance (DA), days after the ANC’s national leadership disbanded the party’s provincial executive committee. The announcement was made by DA federal council chair Helen Zille at a media briefing in Cape Town on Wednesday. The party also welcomed three other ANC councillors who have crossed the floor. Zille said: “We’re a party of values and principles, not a party of transactional politics. “People come to us and say, ‘we want to move from our current political home – how much will you offer us?’ And we say, ‘we won’t offer you anything.’ Structured “We’ll do a normal, structured contract if you’re going to do some work for us, but apart from that…

Merits The merits of the case were heard in court by Constable Duister from the Provincial Detective Anti-Corruption Unit, who stated in court that the members had no authority to be in Delft on that day as they were posted to work in the Wellington to Wolseley area to focus on the essential infrastructure. According to the witness statement, R65 000 was in the storeroom of the tuck shop which was supposed to pay the cigarette supplier and when the members left, R18 300 was missing. However none of the witnesses saw the officers taking the money. The accusation is allegedly based on assumption. The officers were released on bail of R2 000 each and the matter has been postponed to 21 January 2026 for further investigation. Their bail conditions…