The Bonteheuwel Walking Ladies celebrated the strength of women by hosting nearly 700 mothers from the community and surrounding areas at the 9th annual Ladies Breakfast event at the Bonteheuwel Civic Centre. Donning bright yellow colours, the group of over 60 ladies, led by organiser, Suraya Salie, offered a free[…]
Outraged residents of Bonteheuwel are determined to take back their streets from gangsterism and drug pedalling after staging a march in the area on Sunday. Bonteheuwel Joint Peace Forum spokesperson Judy Kennedy says that due to high frequencies of crime infiltrating the area it has become increasingly difficult to pin[…]
A complaint by the Bonteheuwel Joint Peace Forum (JPF) against City of Cape Town mayor, Patricia de Lille over alleged misconduct has made its way to the National Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA). The incident stems from a meeting held in October over the City’s perceived lack[…]
Contingency plans are likely to be put in place at the Bonteheuwel Police Station on Wednesday to work around reported issues with the station’s telephone line. Residents have expressed concern that one of their most vital routes of communication with the police have been down for several weeks, hampering attempts[…]
Members of the Bontheuwel community met on Monday morning to hand over a memorandum to the City of Cape Town councillor, Rosemary Rau, to express their dissatisfaction with the erection of what they call “alien looking poles” in their community. Residents on Saturday held a meeting in which a plan[…]
Two teenage boys have been killed in a flare-up of gang violence in Bonteheuwel in the Western Cape, community forum members said on Sunday. “There were two killings on Friday night… definitely related to gang violence,” Bonteheuwel Joint Peace Forum member Soraya Salie told News24. She said one of the[…]
Residents of Bonteheuwel held a meeting on Saturday with several key stakeholders in the community safety sector, in a bid to address some of their more pressing concerns. The meeting was held at Freedom Square, and had a focus on crime, gansterism and drugs. In attendance were representatives from[…]
As the Bonteheuwel community become victim to an increase in robberies and vandalism to not only their local schools but also their homes, the police and the Bonteheuwel Joint Peace Forum plan to meet on Saturday to devise a strategic plan in eradicating their area of gang related crimes. However,[…]
Community members from the Bonteheuwel Joint Peace Forum (BJPF) are appealing to the authorities to assist in protecting its resources after a school was burgled and torched on Sunday. The Cedar Primary School was broken into many times in during March, with criminals stripping it of some of its basic[…]
The Bontheuwel Joint Peace Forum (BJPF) has once again mobilised the community to rally against the recent increase in break-ins and vandalism at schools in the area. On Saturday, the forum along with residents and pupils marched through the back streets of the impoverished community, strategically passing major drug houses[…]
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