Zip guns are commonly used on the Cape Flats, says the Mitchells Plain Community Police Forum. Its chairperson, Abie Isaacs, said gangsters often used these makeshift guns because they were easy to build and difficult to trace. Isaacs was commenting on Tuesay after an incident where a 12-year-old boy was[…]
Residents in Heideveld, Cape Town, are concerned by the rise in alleged mob justice killings, after two bodies were found at a train station in the suburb on Monday. Two unidentified men were killed on Monday morning and their burnt bodies left near the Heideveld train station, News24 reported. The[…]
Cape Flats residents embarked on a second march within the space of two weeks, taking to the streets on Tuesday to demand government action in addressing an escalating gang and crime situation in the area. The Cape Flats has been hard hit by gang wars, violent crime, and unbridled levels[…]
Members of the Cape Flats Concerned Residents organisation say they will be combating gang related crimes in their respective areas through establishing an active neighbourhood watch and ensure the safety of residents, especially school learners, during the peak of gang violence. The group has also called on communities to join[…]
As residents on the Cape Flats intensify their call to have the army deployed to gang-dominated areas, a specialist in policing says that that call needs to be heeded by local government, civil servants and and politicians. Crime researcher Eldred De Klerk says the initial idea of having the army[…]
President Jacob Zuma should deploy the military or other official forces to stabilise Hanover Park, Cape Flats residents demanded on Tuesday. In a memorandum of demands handed over to a representative of the presidency, the residents also asked that a commission of inquiry to investigate organised crime in the Western[…]
Dozens of residents from across the Cape Flats were seen outside of Parliament on Tuesday, in a protest against gang violence that has had communities under siege. The group, a collective of concerned parents and community activists, stood in unison braving the cold, wet weather, to show their dissatisfaction with[…]
Fed-up residents across the Cape Flats will mobilize for a protest to Parliament on Tuesday, to raise the alarm on gang violence. The Cape Flats Concerned Residents Association will be protesting to demand the deployment of the army in gang ridden areas on the Cape Flats. Chairman Ricardo Sedres said[…]
With the safety concerns of Cape Flats residents continuing to be ignored amidst heightened gang activity, residents have largely taken to social media in a bid to tackle the scourge. ‘Gang Watch’ accounts have begun to take centre stage in many of these communities, sharing up to the minute information[…]
Unhappy with the current state of leadership within the Western Cape, community members across the Cape Flats have banded together to form a new political party, with the hopes of addressing some of the core issues currently facing their communities. The new Social Democratic Party (SDP) is expected to launch[…]
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