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Police keep eye on warring Cape Town residents

Tensions remained high in Philippi East, Cape Town, on Monday morning following days of conflict between residents of neighbouring areas, which has resulted in the death of three men and property damage estimated at R20m. Residents of Lower Crossroads were said to be unhappy with people from Marikana informal settlement,[…]

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Parliament, public misled on policing stats: report

Top government officials, including President Jacob Zuma, misconstrued data on public order policing before Parliament, according to a University of Johannesburg (UJ) report released on Wednesday. The longer UJ researchers worked on the report, the “more it became clear that senior South African Police Services [SAPS] officials and government ministers[…]

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Army, cops descend on Cape Town suburb

It will take more than one major crackdown to clean the crime-ridden streets of Ottery. This was the sentiment of frustrated locals who watched South African Police Service, defence force and metro police officers raid crime hotspots in the Grassy Park police precinct in Cape Town on Friday. The integrated[…]

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Police conduct raid in Manenberg

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[…]

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Police struggle during load-shedding

As concerns rage over the police’s functionality during the hours of load shedding, there have been suggestions of a potential increase in criminal activity during these periods as well. In a bid to address this issue, Western Cape Community Safety MEC, Dan Plato has reportedly requested a full briefing from[…]

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Man at centre of Cape Town stand-off ‘eccentric’

The man at the centre of a stand-off in which a police officer was shot in the face was described by neighbours as “eccentric” and “out there”. The neighbours also claimed the man’s house was “booby trapped”, reported News24’s Tammy Petersen from the scene. But the police’s Captain FC van[…]

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Dramatic scenes as hostage drama ends

An armed man hiding inside his home in Hazendal in Athlone since Tuesday evening shot himself to prevent police from arresting him. Paramedics confirmed on Wednesday morning that the suspect took his own life, following a more than 14 hour stand-off with police and hostage negotiators. Police spokesperson Capt FC[…]

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Police functionality affected by load shedding: MEC

Western Cape community safety MEC Dan Plato has requested a full briefing with police management on station functionality during load shedding. This after a number of police stations reported that their phones are out of order during rolling blackouts, Plato said in a statement. Other stations, he claimed, reported that[…]

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Benni thought of his kids at gunpoint – friend

Former Bafana Bafana striker Benni McCarthy thoughts were of his children when he was being robbed at gunpoint at a barber shop, his friend and agent said on Wednesday. Percy Adams told News24 that after the robbery on Tuesday, Benni said to him that although these type of robberies were[…]

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Man who claims Chabane was assassinated in court

The man who made allegations on Facebook that late Public Service and Administration Minister Collins Chabane was assassinated will appear in the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. Thembani Chabane, who reportedly claimed to be a relative of Collins Chabane, appeared on April 2 and was released by Magistrate Mohamed Shaik[…]

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