Residents in the Kensington area have voiced concerns about the safety at the Kensington train station. According to reports, residents who access the transport route are at risk of being mugged. Members of the Acre Road Community Safety Watch in Kensington after having monitored the situation over the past few[…]
Parkwood residents who erected illegal structures on private land have acted out of “frustration” due to housing bureaucracy. So says, Grassy Park Community Policing Forum (CPF) chairperson, Rev Phillip Bam, following violent clashes in Parkwood late yesterday afternoon as residents confronted law enforcement officers who were instructed to demolish illegally[…]
Just a few weeks after the 16 Days of Activism against Women and Children, and another innocent girl has been brutally murdered. On Tuesday night, the body of a 10 year old girl was found dead in Vrygrond, after she was stabbed multiple times and bled to death. It’s been[…]
The Mitchell’s Plain Community Police Forum (CPF) cluster has formulated a plan of action for the forthcoming year with the aim of combatting and ultimately eradicating criminal activity. This comes as several policing role-players associated with the CPF came together at the end of August for a Policing Needs and[…]
Amidst the City of Cape Town’s announcement of an investment initiative aimed at improving conditions in the gang-infested area of Manenberg, the Manenberg Community Policing Forum has expressed concern at a lack of consultation on the plans with the community. This comes despite those behind the project having surveyed the[…]
Manenberg residents say they have little knowledge about the future of the GF Jooste Hospital but call on the City of Cape Town to stick to their initial plan of renovating the structure to provide better medical care to the community. This follows an outcry from Manenberg CPF’s Pastor Lewellyn[…]
Residents in Bishop Lavis are relieved that notorious gang leader, George ‘Geweld’ Thomas was handed seven life sentences this week, in one of South Africa’s biggest gang trials that spanned years. The local Community Police Forum chairperson Graham Lindhorst says incidents involving gang related violence has slightly decreased as the[…]
A quiet tension has washed over the community of Ottery as they anticipate when the next gang shooting will break out. Grassy Park CPF chairperson Phillip Bam says gang related violence is taking innocent lives every week. Over the past weekend, a 73 year old woman was killed by a[…]
The continuous shooting and killing of innocent people has become the order of the day for the community of Parkwood Estate and Ottery. According to the Community Policing Forum, the free flow of illegal firearms are to blame for the bloodbath that claimed the lives of four people in Parkwood[…]
Closing lanes between homes in Eastridge in Mitchell’s Plain may be a solution to the ongoing crime in the area, according to the local Community Policing Forum chairperson, Abie Isaacs. This comes following the death of a 28 year old woman who was caught in the gun crossfire between two[…]
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