Friday:
A human skull was discovered at the Milnerton lighthouse in Cape Town by city law enforcement officers on Friday, a spokesperson for the city said.”City law enforcement officers were shocked earlier today when they discovered a human skull at the Milnerton lighthouse, while conducting routine patrols along the coast,” spokesperson for the city Wilfred Solomons-Johannes said.
The officers spotted the skull at around 12:45 and identified it as human.
“According to the officers, the skull was lying on the surface of the sand and was slightly submerged.”
The Weekend:
More than 100 residents of the Pholile Park informal settlement near Strand had to be admitted to hospital with food poisoning at the weekend after they had consumed expired food dumped there.
Pholile Park community leader Siphe Kaka said: “On Thursday morning, a white truck came into the area and just dumped the food. There were jams, biscuits, sweets etc. People rushed to get to the food and it was later that day when many got ill – especially children. On Friday and Saturday, more became ill and today another 40 people got sick.”
He said ambulances came and went all weekend as residents fell ill, vomited and had skin rashes due to food poisoning.
Monday:
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man on Table Mountain in Cape Town on Sunday night.
Rescue workers retrieved the man’s body.
Table Mountain National Park spokesperson Merle Collins said, “SANParks staff and Metro Rescue were involved. It was quite a huge operation because of where the body fell. All we can say is that it is a white male. We do not now what happened at this stage.”
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