Metro Police officers have arrested a father and son for possession of a prohibited firearm, ammunition and drugs in Kensington at 17h00 on Thursday. Metro Police spokesperson, Ruth Solomons says the officers received a tip off about illegal drug activity at a residence in 14th Avenue, Factreton. Solomons says officers[…]
A 12-year-old boy was shot dead in Kuku Town in Kensington, Cape Town on Wednesday, the Kensington Community Police Forum (CPF) said on Thursday. CPF chairperson Cheslyn Steenberg said in a statement the boy’s body was found on Thursday morning by fellow residents. He had not yet been identified. Western[…]
By Abubakr Abrahams Some 500 residents from Kensington, Maitland and Factreton held a public march over the weekend to Kensington police station to raise their concerns over the alleged lack of police resources in Kensington. Mogamat Noordien, chairperson of the Kensington Community Police Forum, says police in the area have[…]
A Kensington mother charged under the Children’s Act following the murder of her 18-month-old son, is pregnant, her family has confirmed. Abigail Ruiters, 30, appeared alongside her boyfriend Ameeruddien Peters, 26, in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. Peters has been charged with little Jeremiah Ruiters’ murder. The toddler[…]
A former security guard accused of being behind the spate of murders committed in and around the Century City area, on Thursday entered a plea agreement in the Western Cape High Court. He was sentenced to seven life sentences, and an additional 40 years behind bars. Khangayi Sedumedi, 32, of[…]
While a 50 year old man was found stabbed to death outside his home in Factreton on Monday, Kensington Community Policing Forum’s, Harry Guta says the crime level in the area is on the decrease. Guta explained that the most recent incident was an isolated domestic case but generally incidents[…]
New evidence has come to light in an investigation into a string of murder and rape cases in the Kensington area of Cape Town, Western Cape police said on Friday. Lt-Col Andre Traut believed the evidence would strengthen a related criminal case against a 30-year-old man who appeared in the[…]
The Kensington Factreton Residents and Ratepayers Association (KFRRA) has no objection to residents of Du Noon being relocated to Transnet land in Kensington, as long as the needs of the people already living in the area are met. This was according to KFRRA chairperson Dawood Essack on Wednesday after concerned[…]
The Kensington Factreton Residents and Ratepayers Association (KFRRA) are up in arms about Du-Noon residents set to relocate to Kensington and as a last resort, are planning a march to express their frustrations. Although the land belongs to Transnet, the Kensington-Facreton community refuses to allow this group of informal dwellers[…]
Small businesses in Kensington’s Bunney Street are facing an uphill battle to keep up with high electricity tariffs. After an increase in tariffs across the City of Cape Town, business owners here say they can barely make ends meet with the exorbitant amount of funds they have to put into[…]
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