The community of Bokmakierie is on edge following the murders of two high profile gang members recently. There are fears of a gang war after the execution style murder of an alleged leader of the Hard Livings gang which operates in Bokmakierie. 46 year old Ibrahim ‘Hiemma’ Ishmail was gunned[…]
Lieutenant-Colonel Andrè Traut says that the possibility of it being gang-related cannot be ruled out. A brutal slaying rocked the Cape Town suburb of Kenilworth on Saturday evening when gunmen opened fire on a vehicle parked at the Caltex garage near Don Caster Road. CCTV footage, obtained from the scene[…]
Cape Town – Glomix House Brokers, where the wife of alleged 28s gang boss Ralph Stanfield is the director, has a tender to build 30 houses in the Valhalla Park housing project. “The City of Cape Town was not aware of these allegations until the recent media enquiries,” Mayco member[…]
Three learners from Atlantis high school were stabbed in a gang related incident at the school on Tuesday. It’s believed two Grade 12 learners and a Grade 11 learner were attacked by another Grade 12 learner. The incident allegedly took place at the same time of a shooting in the[…]
By Melanie Sauer I spent my Friday evening in a police van. It is a Friday night I will never forget, but it is not what you think. As an Australian intern working at The Voice of the Cape radio station, I was offered the chance to attend a metro police[…]
By Melanie Sauer The Department of Community Safety is calling for a collaborative approach to end gang-violence and crime in the Western Cape once and for all. Western Cape Minister of Community Safety, Dan Plato, hosted a public meeting on Sunday in Elsies River to respond to the concerns of[…]
As gang violence rips through the Cape Flats, gang related activity within the so-called ‘townships’ appears to be unnoticed. Tuesday night’s killing spree in Nyanga, which resulted in the death of four individuals and injured three, awakened Cape Flats communities to the realities of life within the townships of the[…]
In a last attempt to stamp out gangsterism, Manenberg mothers have a plan to take children as young as five years old off the street and out of the area so they can experience a different side of life. By doing so, they hope to limit the children’s exposure to[…]
After no response from the Mayor regarding the Gangsterism Must Fall march two months ago, community activists are determined to have their cries for help be heard. The march which took place in February this year was not well attended but it seems that has increased the determination of the[…]
While a police effort to address the gang problem continues, chairperson of the Grassy Park Community Police Forum (CPF), Phillip Bam says a fresh strategy needs to be put in place for more effective results. Gang violence has once again taken the life of an innocent resident, this time a[…]
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