Around 200 Hanover Park residents marched to the Phillip Police station on Wednesday to draw attention to the increasing levels of gang violence and police inefficiencies in addressing the problem. Under the banner of the ‘Concerned Residents of Hanover Park’, people from all ages marched in the blistering heat, calling[…]
As the festive season fast approaches, gang ridden communities on the Cape Flats worry about a possible upsurge in gang violence. During a visit to Hanover Park and Manenberg following recent gang shootings in the areas, residents told of the need for immediate police intervention to ensure the safety of[…]
Community members in Hanover Park are to take a stand against an upsurge in gang violence that has beset the area over the past two weeks. Residents, led by the National Peoples Movement, will take to the streets on Wednesday in a march against crime and increased gang-related shootings. While[…]
The ‘shotspotter’ technology installed in Hanover Park to detect firearm usage is no longer operational as the system was merely a pilot project that ran until April this year. Residents of the crime-ridden area have complained of a lack of police response to gun related incidents in recent weeks, raising[…]
Hanover Park may soon see massive facelift, if the City of Cape Town’s Mayoral Urban Renewal Project takes off. Cape Town Mayor Patricia De Lille launched the upgrade plan on Thursday. The project aims to not only make the gang infested area safer but also developmental upgrades to parks, roads[…]
A Hanover Park man allegedly beat his two-year-old daughter for about six hours and when she was taken to hospital the following day she was declared dead, the Athlone Magistrate’s Court heard on Monday. Christopher Williams, 32, wearing a dirty blue tracksuit and a yellow cap, which he removed, kept[…]
A Hanover Park man is expected to appear in the Athlone Magistrate’s Court in Cape Town on Monday for allegedly beating his 2-year-old daughter to death. On Friday, Western Cape police said Christopher Williams was arrested on Thursday night in Vygieskraal in Athlone, and was being detained on a charge[…]
A karaoke fundraiser ended in bloodshed in Belthorn Estate on Saturday night when two men were shot and killed. Officers responded to a shooting at Turfhall Stadium at 23:30, where the body of a 40-year-old man was found on the side of the building. The body of a 45-year-old man[…]
One week after Shasha Lee November disappeared while playing mere metres from her Hanover Park, Cape Town home, the trail for the girl affectionately known as Meisie remains cold. Concerned residents remain hopeful that the six-year-old will be found. But to date, no leads have yet proven useful. On Friday,[…]
The Cape Flats has been hit hard by a spate of gang shootings over the past two weeks, which has directly resulted in the deaths of 17 people in just 15 days. This is part of a shocking number of gang related deaths in the area this year, with residents[…]
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