Nicola Daniels

Cape Town

Multimedia Journalist and Reporter at Cape Times South Africa

South African journalist, psych student. Views are my own. Love, live, smile and be a good human. Jesus loves you. Cape Times: [email protected]

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Articles

Equality Court hears case of transgender learner denied rights at school

4 days ago | iol.co.za | Nicola Daniels

3minThe Legal Resources Centre (LRC) is representing a transgender learner who was allegedly denied the right to express his gender identity at his Somerset West primary school.
DA, FF+ booted from power in Matzikama

4 days ago | iol.co.za | Nicola Daniels

3minMonica Bottom from the Patriotic Alliance has been appointed as the new mayor of Matzikamma municipality in the Western Cape. Image: FacebookTHE DA and FF Plus have been booted from power in the Matzikama municipality after successful motions of no confidence against the speaker, mayor and deputy mayor. The ruling coalition now includes the ANC, PA, EFF and GOOD Party, who cited the previous administration’s “failure to address community concerns” in tabling the motions.
Universities seek contingency plans amid US funding cuts

4 days ago | iol.co.za | Nicola Daniels

2minUniveristy of Cape Town. Image: FileUCT and Stellenbosch University are developing contingency plans to mitigate the severe impact of the Trump administration's cuts to US grant funding, which threaten billions in research support.
Minister receives report on George building collapse

4 days ago | iol.co.za | Nicola Daniels |Robin-Lee Francke

2minThe George building collapse was the result of systemic failures across various regulatory bodies and a lack of cooperation among key stakeholders, says Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson. He reiterated that accountability could not be optional when human lives were lost as a result of human error.
Councillor resigns over 'lack of transparency' on George building collapse

5 days ago | iol.co.za | Nicola Daniels

2minThe scene of the five-storey building that claimed 34 lives when it collapsed in George. Image: Ayanda Ndamane / Independent NewspapersGEORGE councillor, Chantelle Kyd has resigned from Planning and Development Mayoral Committee over what she says is the DA-led municipality’s lack of transparency over the confidential tabling of reports on the George building collapse.
WC the only province to raise objections to NHI Fund draft regulations

5 days ago | iol.co.za | Nicola Daniels

3minWestern Cape Health and Wellness MEC Mireille Wenger. Image: Henk Kruger/Independent NewspapersTHE ANC in the province says the Western Cape Government’s rejection of the draft National Health Insurance (NHI) regulations reflects a political choice to defend privilege rather than fix inequality. The province is the only in the country to have raised objections to the draft governance regulations relating to the implementation of the NHI Fund.
'I'LL ERASE YOUR BLACKNESS'

1 week ago | dailyvoice.co.za | Nicola Daniels

Nicola Daniels | May 30, 2025“I WILL erase your blackness.”These words still haunt two Beaufort West students following what they believe was a racial attack by a man captured on camera spraying them with what he claimed was “holy water” using a pesticide sprayer. The two students, whose identity is known to the Cape Times, believe that the liquid inside the sprayer was in fact bleach.
CD 6 short 30/5/2025

1 week ago | dailyvoice.co.za | Nicola Daniels

Nicola Daniels | May 30, 2025“I WILL erase your blackness.”These words still haunt two Beaufort West students following what they believe was a racial attack by a man captured on camera spraying them with what he claimed was “holy water” using a pesticide sprayer. The two students, whose identity is known to the Cape Times, believe that the liquid inside the sprayer was in fact bleach.
Helen Zille's remarks on Afrikaner "opportunities" under scrutiny

1 week ago | iol.co.za | Nicola Daniels

3minDemocratic Alliance (DA) Federal Council Chairperson Helen Zille. Image: Itumeleng English/ Independent Newspapers HELEN Zille has defended her comments that the Afrikaner community "took all opportunities very seriously" and there was "nothing stopping everyone else from following that example" despite backlash. Zille took to X and wrote: “Afrikaners took all opportunities very seriously. Educated their children into professional skills and out of poverty.
We just want justice, say students in 'racially-charged' incident

1 week ago | iol.co.za | Nicola Daniels

2minIn one of the videos that has since gone viral on social media, the man can be seen spraying the women, while they ask him to stop, desperately covering their faces.