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[…]
Community members from the Manenberg Safety Forum (MSF) held an urgent public meeting at the Green Pastures Church on Saturday after three people were shot in suspected gang related shootings over the weekend. The shootings came just a day after Operation Fiela targeted homes in the area on Thursday. A[…]
While Operation Fiela brought some relief to the hostile situation in Manenberg on Thursday, residents feel the crackdown will not be effective in curbing violent gang shootings in the long-term. Manenberg was flooded with police, metro police and army officials, as the crime operation was rolled out in the early[…]
Police conducted a pre-dawn raid of the Cape Flats suburb of Manenberg on Thursday morning, a Western Cape police spokesperson confirmed. Constable Rwexana told to News24 on Thursday more details on the raid would be released at a media briefing at the Western Cape Police’s provincial headquarters at 10:00. According[…]
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[…]
The Manenberg Safety Forum (MSF) are looking to shakeup the ‘top-down’ approach, which they claim has had little benefit in addressing the issues that continue to plague the community. The forum will host a mini-imbizo on Monday 11th May, in which they will pose their plans going forward to several[…]
With the number of gang and drug related crime in Manenberg soaring, the provincial government has launched a plan to keep the youth occupied during the coming school holidays. The announcement came on Tueday morning when the Youth Safety and Religious partnership programme hosted a breakfast in Manenberg to discuss[…]
With the safety concerns of Cape Flats residents continuing to be ignored amidst heightened gang activity, residents have largely taken to social media in a bid to tackle the scourge. ‘Gang Watch’ accounts have begun to take centre stage in many of these communities, sharing up to the minute information[…]
A member of the Americans gang in Manenberg on the Cape Flats has died following a shooting, the Manenberg Community Forum (CPF) said on Sunday. “He died yesterday morning,” CPF spokesperson Rugshanda Pascoe told News24. Pascoe did not know his real name, only his nickname, Mandela, and that he was[…]
Life has not been as quiet as the media and police have been reporting in Manenberg, says a mother of three living in a small flat overlooking Manenberg Avenue. Her home has been dangerously close to the impromptu battlefield that erupted this Easter weekend. “These guys … have no respect[…]
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