While the recent spate of gang activity in the Cape Flats township of Delft continues to worry community members, the South African Police Service (SAPS) and residents are working to enforce change within the area. During the month of August, a total of 31 individuals were murdered in the area,[…]
Tensions among different gang groupings are spreading to more communities on the Cape Flats, with areas such as Bishop Lavis and Blikkiesdorp warning of increased gang violence. The gang violence, which occurred on separate occasions in the different areas, has caused death and lead to injuries. The search for an[…]
Police had to diffuse the situation when members of the anti-drug group Pagad shouted at Irshaad Laher in a hall way at the Bellville magistrate’s court on Friday, accusing him of murdering innocent children on the Cape Flats. The Cape Town businessman and his co-accused appeared on charges of gun[…]
The recent spate of gang violence in Bonteheuwel has sparked concern amongst residents. The residents, who have been caught in the middle of a gang war, have at least two gang related killings this week alone. Community members from across the gang-ridden Cape Flats area are now calling on the[…]
Although a peace agreement been initiated before Ramadan, when the month ended, violence in Hanover Park escalated within a couple of days. In the space of one week, two men were fatally shot and five other people were injured, including an eight year old child, in what is believed to[…]
Western Cape police have arrested a suspect in the murder of a 20-year-old man in Hanover Park on Friday. Police on Friday said the suspect was in his twenties, and was arrested following three shootings in the embattled area on Thursday. Two people were killed and five were injured. “The[…]
Leonsdale residents in Elsies River say they are a community under siege, as the area battles a vicious flare up of gang violence over the past few days, in which gang members have taken up arms against police. Residents are living in fear as four local rival gangs fight for[…]
Residents in Hanover Park have experienced a sense of calm in the area since Ramadan, thanks to an agreement between community members and gang leaders. The Hanover Park Society (HPS), Ceasefire Project and other community activists came together a few weeks before Ramadan and met with gangsters at Grand West[…]
While gang violence accounts for a third of all crime committed in the Western Cape, civil society groups will be challenging the prevalence of violence within Manenberg and the greater Cape Flats area with a peace march this Saturday. A number of organisations lead by the International Women’s Peace Group[…]
Outraged residents of Bonteheuwel are determined to take back their streets from gangsterism and drug pedalling after staging a march in the area on Sunday. Bonteheuwel Joint Peace Forum spokesperson Judy Kennedy says that due to high frequencies of crime infiltrating the area it has become increasingly difficult to pin[…]
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