By Kouthar Sambo More than 15 firefighting resources and 70 staff members were attending to the blaze that was being fanned by strong winds in Nyanga, Cape Town, on Friday, 5 April. The Disaster Risk Management Centre (DRM) has deployed staff to the affected area. According to the DRM, officials[…]
By Kouthar Sambo Crime in the Western Cape has reached high levels, particularly gang-related, as media reports indicated a spike in high jackings to construction mafias and extortions. The Institute for Security Studies has helped design an evidence-based intervention piloted in the Tafelsig area on visible policing, which has seen[…]
Residents and civic organisations gathered in Nyanga on Saturday for a safety prayer campaign. The Nyanga Community Policing Forum (CPF) said the aim of the campaign was also to bring all relevant stakeholders under one roof to find solutions that can be implemented to reduce crime in the area. Over[…]
Detectives are investigating whether extortion or an act of retaliation is behind the fatal shooting of three men who were ambushed by gunmen in Nyanga in Cape Town on Sunday. “The three yet to be identified victims were ambushed by their killers at around 4pm in Ntlangano Crescent and killed[…]
Nyanga police in Cape Town are investigating a double murder case after two women were shot dead in Chris Hani Crescent in Crossroads. Police said one of the victims was found lying in the street covered with a blanket, while the other was found in a yard on Tuesday afternoon.[…]
By Loushe Jordaan Gilbert The City of Cape Town’s [COCT] waste collection department has suspended services in several township areas due to extortion and attacks on workers. Gugulethu is the latest area where the city had to withdraw refuse collection staff due to threats of attack unless the city pays[…]
By Aneeqa du Plessis A case of murder is being investigated after a Law Enforcement Officer was shot and killed in Nyanga last night. According to SAPS, the deceased was a passenger in the back of a vehicle when an unknown gunman opened fire along Miller Road. The officials were[…]
LOCAL Western Cape officials have raised concerns that increasingly violent demonstrations by the taxi industry in the province, is becoming life-threatening. At least seven suspects are expected in court on Monday, following renewed protests on Friday morning. Cape Town motorists were left infuriated, with many unable to reach their workplaces,[…]
The Western Cape Transport MEC Daylin Mitchell is on Friday taking steps to declare the Nyanga area a high-risk zone in respect of taxi violence. This follows violence that coincided with a march in Cape Town’s CBD on Thursday and a disruptive slow-moving convoy on the highway. Taxi operators highlighted[…]
Ten suspects aged between 20-years-old and 30-years-old are expected to appear in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court in Cape Town on charges of armed robbery and kidnapping, on Tuesday. They were arrested in Nyanga on the Cape Flats at the weekend following the robbery and kidnapping of a 47-year-old businessman from[…]
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