The highs and lows of life in today’s edition

TODAY we report that Capetonians were granted a slight reprieve in the wake of the water shortage crisis. The city has decided to relax water restrictions and tariffs amid a massive public outcry about unaffordable water bills, and pleas that locals were doing everything possible to save water.

The City had continuously declared that only once national government relaxed restrictions would it do the same. The National Department of Water and Sanitation, however, says restrictions will remain in place and will only be reviewed once the provincial dam level average reaches 85%.

This is to safeguard available water resources, particularly as the winter rainy season comes to an end.

We once again shine the spotlight on suicide with the tragic story of a Strand mother who attempted to commit suicide in a manner that claimed the life of her three-week-old son.

Locking herself and her two children inside their shack, she set the shack alight. She and her older child were rescued. She faces a charge of murder and two of attempted murder, and appeared in the Western Cape High Court yesterday – on World Suicide Prevention Day.

Years of abuse for not agreeing to engage in daily sexual activity with her husband is apparently what drove her to the act.

On a lighter note, two young magicians from Khayelitsha won the 2018 Western Cape Junior Magician Championships at Bergvliet High School at the weekend, after battling it out with seven of their peers.

Read this and more in today’s edition.