Amid SA National Defence Force and police operations in Cape Town’s crime hotspots, some of the city’s unsung heroines in neighbourhood watches (NHW) and community policing forums (CPF) were treated to a high tea for the work they do in dangerous conditions. “As I travel about the Western Cape and[…]
The Hanover Park community policing forum wants government to relook at its safety plan in gang-ridden areas. The call comes after a young man was shot and killed and another wounded in a drive-by shooting. The CPF’s Ebrahim Abrahams said the victims were not gangsters. Abrahams said despite the army’s[…]
Metro Police officers have confiscated drugs to the value of about R38,000 and cash at a house in Athlone. The unit teamed up with the South African Police Service for an operation on Thursday. While driving to a house for the raid, officers followed a vehicle that stopped at the[…]
Two of the three men accused of the murder of Meghan Cremer ditched their bail hearing applications in the Athlone Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. Two of the three did not apply for bail The suspects namely: Jeremy Sias, Charles Daniels and Shiraaz Jaftha were arrested soon after the body of[…]
Another GOOD Party leader, treasurer-general Masego Kwenamore, has tendered her resignation saying she has been kept in the dark about party finances. Kwenamore, based in the North West, said she “has had enough and felt used” by the party that was formed a couple of months before the 8 May general elections.[…]
Zephany Nurse, who was taken from her biological mother when she was three days old, told eNCA she just wanted to run home to her “mommy” – the woman who kidnapped her – when her real identity was revealed. “What if I didn’t need saving?” she told Anika Larsen in[…]
South African National Parks (SANParks) has extended their free access to state parks during SA National Parks week to include the weekend after complaints from locals that they were unable to attend during the week. This year’s 14th annual parks week takes place from Sunday 8 to Sunday 15 September 2019. SANParks regional[…]
There’s nothing like a good old fashioned ruck, is there? In a recent set of data released by StatsSA, their research shows just how many South Africans have been quarreling in the past two years: Spoiler alert – there’s a lot to unpack, as 88% of us have been bickering. This[…]
An exposé into the donors of the CR17 presidential campaign ahead of the 2017 ANC national conference has prompted questions on how the differing interests of the right to privacy and transparency clash with regards to Cyril Ramaphosa as president and South African citizen. Ramaphosa has been under fire since it[…]
A new political party has been born in South Africa. The African Federal Convention, AFCO, was launched in Johannesburg on Wednesday by leader Babayi Vusi Mathe. Mathe says he’s decided to form this party after leaving the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) as its former Head of Intelligence in KwaZulu-Natal. Mathe[…]
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