The City of Cape Town has opened the nominations process for the annual Neighbourhood Watch Awards. Now in its second year, the Neighbourhood Watch Awards celebrates and acknowledges the achievements and contributions of individuals and groups who help build safer communities in Cape Town. The nomination process will close on[…]
By Loushe Jordaan Manenberg has been identified as a priority area for upliftment by the Western Cape government and City of Cape Town, given how deeply and tragically this suburb is affected by urban decay, and the resulting crises of drug abuse and gangsterism. With plans set in place, Manenberg[…]
By Loushe Jordaan Emotions were high at the Mitchell’s Plain Magistrate’s court on Wednesday as the suspect in the Stacey Adams murder case made his first court appearance. The suspect, Christopher Lee Brown, portrayed had a stone cold face and at one point smiled, as he stood in the dock.[…]
By Loushe Jordaan Tempers flared in Eastridge in Mitchells Plain on Monday night as a group of residents gathered outside the home of 6 year old Stacey Adams to vent their frustrations regarding the child’s murder. However, things spiralled out of control as the angry crowd destroyed the wendy house[…]
The imamat at Masjidul Thani in Rocklands say they are shocked at the callous nature in which the masjid was burgled and vandalised yesterday. Burglars broke into the masjid in the early hours of Saturday morning, and left with the masjid’s computers, a video camera, sound equipment, two-way radios and[…]
Religious leaders in Hanover Park will mobilize residents to “take back their streets” at a multi–faith community safety initiative this weekend. Members of the Muslim and Christian clergy will host a vigil in the area on Friday night to pray for victims of gang violence, ahead of a weekend of[…]
The Grassy Park Community Police Forum (CPF) has commended the Grassy Park SAPS for arresting a major drug dealer in Parkwood Estate. Western Cape police said partnership policing between SAPS and the community yielded success on Wednesday night when a firearm, ammunition and drugs were seized in Grassy Park during[…]
By Imam Dr. A. Rashied Omar On Wednesday the 27th September 2017 we commemorate the 48th anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Abdullah Haron. After being held incommunicado for 123 days by the South African state security in an apartheid prison, Imam Haron died on September 27, 1969. During an[…]
Violence erupted in Hanover Park on Tuesday afternoon as residents turned on police and ambulance staff following the shooting of a teenager. A video going viral on social media shows gunshots ringing out, as residents run for cover. Igsaan Nazier from the Hanover Park Civic Association said police were responding[…]
“None of us would have imagined that years ago, the athaan and the kalimah would be called out on these dusty dunes.” These were the words of Imam Adam Philander, in praising the development of Islam in the Nkanini community at Masjidu Allahu Akbar in Khayelitsha. The masjid, a tiny,[…]
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