After many efforts by the community activist within the Manenberg Safety Forum, rival gangs in the area have agreed to halt all gang shootings. A meeting at the weekend resulted in a verbal agreement with gang leaders from the Clever Kids, Hard Livings, Americans and Dixie Boys, to restore peace[…]
A Manenberg primary school principal says the community is glad their pleas are finally being heard, after another joint crime prevention operation was conducted in the embattled suburb on Thursday morning. Western Cape police said in a statement that the police and army joined forces as part of Operation Fiela[…]
Ongoing gang violence in Manenberg has resulted in services being disrupted at the local clinic as well as the recently launched Manenberg substance abuse treatment site. With daily gang cross fire, city staff have been forced to work under extremely volatile conditions. The City of Cape Town’s Health Directorate said[…]
Gang violence has gotten out of control in the Cape Flats region to a point where the army has been dispersed in certain areas in order to curb the fighting. This increase in gang violence has also lead to an increase in the abuse suffered by women and children on[…]
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[…]
A new civil society movement says its made a breakthrough in the gang-ridden community of Valhalla Park, following the area’s first incident free weekend in several years. The Wes Kaapse Kleurlings Ontwikkelings Organisasie (WKKOO) has said that an intervention facilitated on its behalf has led to a truce between rival[…]
The Manenberg Safety Forum’s ‘mini-imbizo’ with several key Western Cape governmental departments went ahead as planned, despite the area witnessing a flare-up in gang violence on Monday. The meeting addressed many of the issues currently affecting the Manenberg community, as well as the Forum’s own plans to tackle them. On[…]
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[…]
A short way into Manenberg’s eponymous main road, a crowd of people stopped this reporter on his way to finding out more on the weekend’s surge in gang violence in the area. The small crowd that gathered was wary, until a matriarch informed them that I meant no trouble and[…]
Cape Town – Gunshots and screaming could be heard on the streets of Manenberg on the Cape Flats late into Monday night, a resident and community forum spokesperson Rugshanda Pascoe said on Tuesday. “Between 23:00 and 23:45 last night we could still hear shooting. We could hear people screaming,” Pascoe[…]
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