The Social Justice Coalition (SJC) on Saturday presented its detailed report on the need for better lighting in Khayelitsha and Nyanga at the Isivivana community centre. According to GroundUp, the research report stated “there is no doubt that inadequate lighting is a security issue”. It follows findings and recommendations by[…]
Residents of the Europe informal settlement in Nyanga are relieved following the removal of large mounds of rubbish which had piled up since December. The problem occurred when some residents refused to allow the City of Cape Town to use its expanded public works programme database to select community contract[…]
Residents of the Europe informal settlement in Nyanga are living with growing mounds of uncollected rubbish, due to a dispute between the City of Cape Town and residents over the employment of contract communal cleaners, GroundUp reported. “It is not just the stench which bothers us. Sometimes we find our[…]
Eight men accused of abducting and gang raping a 13-year-old girl in Nyanga are expected back in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. The case was previously postponed for the men to get legal representation and for the State to get information relating to bail. During their last appearance, Magistrate[…]
Irate Barcelona informal settlement residents have threatened to continue protest on the N2 until their “rightful” ANC councillor candidate is put on the registered list. Alleged ANC members belonging to ward 40 in Nyanga said they wanted their “rightfully nominated” councillor candidate Bongani Mbili to be put on the list[…]
Nyanga residents are mystified by an incident, believed to have been a shooting following a foiled robbery involving a bread truck, in which seven teenagers were wounded and one killed. Police are investigating a case of murder and seven cases of attempted murder after the teenagers were shot on Sunday[…]
Residents plan to stage a sit-in at the Nyanga police station in Cape Town on Freedom Day following a spate of bloodshed. Earlier this week a grandmother, a teenager and an 8-year-old boy were killed in an apparent gang retaliation attack in the area. “For us to be known as[…]
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[…]
The families of those shot dead by gangsters who went on a killing spree on Tuesday night in Nyanga, shooting six people and killing four, are reeling from the shock of losing their loved ones. The suspects were apparently on the trail of an alleged gangster who they had been[…]
Authorities descended on the country’s murder capital on Tuesday for a “lock down operation” in the violence-plagued Nyanga precinct. Dubbed Operation Stopper, the action saw police officers, traffic officials, law enforcement officers and SAPS’ specialised units take to Browns Farm and Samora Machel. National police commissioner General Riah Phiyega said,[…]
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