Members of the Anti-Gang Unit in Cape Town have arrested two suspects and seized three firearms in Kensington on Thursday. Police spokesperson, Novella Potelwa, says police followed up on information about a shooting incident when they spotted two men fleeing the scene. She says police discovered two pistols and a[…]
Cape Town Police say the Anti-Gang Unit is following leads after five-year-old Valentino Grootetjie from Lavender Hill was shot dead on Saturday. Civil society organisations took to the streets from Parliament against the violence in the Cape Flats. They’re pleading for peace in gang-infested areas. WATCH: Family of murdered 5-year-old Valentino Grootetjie want justice “We[…]
By Anees Teladia The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will be launching an inquiry into violence in the Western Cape, assessing the root causes as well as measures to combat and prevent it. There has been an increase in gang related shootings over the past month, shootings which keep[…]
A manhunt has been launched following a brazen attack on six Anti-Gang Unit members in Samora Machel in Nyanga on Wednesday morning. Police spokesperson Novela Potelwa says the officers were on a tracing operation in the Sweet Home Farm Informal Settlement. “They were patrolling the area and have already arrested[…]
Police in the Western Cape on Wednesday came under attack in Nyanga where they were trying to arrest a murder suspect. Police spokesperson Brigadier Novela Potelwa, said: “Six members of the Anti-Gang Unit were shot and injured as they were tracing suspects in Samora Machel, Nyanga in the early hours[…]
Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Police will hear testimony from those living in gang-infested areas to determine how effective the police’s anti-gang strategy is. The hearing on Tuesday comes amid reports that more than 185 people have been killed in gang-related violence on the Cape Flats in the Western Cape since[…]
Five people were arrested by the Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) after two children and a woman was killed, and five others wounded in drive-by shootings in Bishop Lavis on Christmas Eve. Police spokesperson Brigadier Novela Potelwa said the suspects were arrested in an operation that started in Athlone in the early[…]
The new Anti-Gang Unit has been chipping away at illegal firearms and drugs, with the recent arrest of six people in Philippi and the confiscation of more than R1m worth of drugs, Western Cape police said on Wednesday. “The Anti-Gang Unit is making headway in disarming criminals in our province,”[…]
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