LOCAL Condolences have poured in after the body of a 16-year-old Delft boy was recovered from Stand beach yesterday. The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) confirmed that a distress call was responded to after 7pm on Saturday. While efforts to revive the teen were sadly unsuccessful, a search commenced for[…]
LOCAL Subcouncil 5 chairperson Stuart Pringle reiterated calls for the devolution of policing powers in the province, saying more resources are required in Delft. Citing neighborhood watch reports that at least nine people were killed in the area in two weeks, Pringle said residents are fed up with the loss[…]
Three suspects are expected to appear in court soon, after being busted in connection with the murder of an off-duty police officer in Delft on Sunday morning. Police spokesperson Andre Traut says the Gugulethu officer was gunned down and car-jacked in Delius Street, Delft South, at 3.30 am. The 31-year-old’s[…]
LOCAL Three people have been shot and killed in Delft on the Cape Flats. Police spokesperson, Andre Traut, says the bodies of two men and a woman were discovered in a shack in an informal settlement in the area. Traut says the motive for the murders are unclear at this[…]
Residents of Delft (north of Cape Town) say they are being failed by the police and criminal justice system. The police’s third Quarter Crime Stats indicate that Delft is one of the areas with the highest number of sexual offences cases in the country. The Ministry of Justice and Constitutional[…]
An Easter Sunday fire tragedy at Delft has left four family members dead, which includes a couple and their five-month old twin boys. The fire ripped through the backyard dwelling of the Moses family in the early hours of this morning. The couple’s three older children survived the incident. City[…]
A suspect linked to the killing of a Cape Town police officer at Delft on Friday has been handed over to the authorities. The Hawks say 40-year-old Constable, Khangelani Mangqabini, from the Mowbray police station was off-duty when he was shot in Delft during a dispute. Zinzi Hani is the[…]
About ten families have been displaced following a fire that engulfed backyard structures at Delft in the early hours of this morning. City Fire and Rescue Services personnel were deployed to extinguish the blaze. In another fire, one person died and another sustained serious burn wounds in Gugulethu. This, after[…]
Police are probing the contents of a video circulating on social media showing two men being assaulted in the presence of officers in Delft on the Cape Flats. One of the men died while the other sustained serious injuries. The video shows two naked men being assaulted by community members[…]
“He hurt my child and he hurt me. This is the first time I am speaking about the incident.” These were the words of Shanaaz Majal, a distraught Wesbank mother whose son has allegedly fallen victim to a serial molester in the community. With the outcry of sexual abuse allegations[…]
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