Police minister Bheki Cele has given the assurance that 1000 new police recruits will be deployed in the Western Cape immediately after they have completed their training. This was one of the outcomes of a meeting with MEC for Community Safety Albert Fritz this week. It follows a spike in[…]
As reported by Eyewitness News, Tierhoek Boerdery first appeared in after the Department of Water and Sanitation found that the farm’s owner didn’t apply for a license before constructing dams. The matter was then brought to the Clanwilliam Regional Court in March 2018 on five charges of water transgression. Following further[…]
By Anees Teladia Child abuse is rampant in the Western Cape but there are ways to prevent abuse. So says Dr Karen Muller, Chief Executive Officer of Child Witness Institute, in the wake of an investigation into the Al Noor Orphanage Centre in Woodstock which faces serious allegations of physical[…]
By Anees Teladia The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will be launching an inquiry into violence in the Western Cape, assessing the root causes as well as measures to combat and prevent it. There has been an increase in gang related shootings over the past month, shootings which keep[…]
The government are currently hosting their Cabinet Lekgotla in Pretoria, throwing open their doors to leaders and elected members of Parliament for the next three days. The delegation includes ministers, deputy ministers and for the first time, premiers and their director generals. Alan Winde shares stark message with Cabinet Lekgotla[…]
Police in the Western Cape on Wednesday came under attack in Nyanga where they were trying to arrest a murder suspect. Police spokesperson Brigadier Novela Potelwa, said: “Six members of the Anti-Gang Unit were shot and injured as they were tracing suspects in Samora Machel, Nyanga in the early hours[…]
A much-loved Afrikaans teacher from Hoerskool Monumentpark has been found dead in her home after she was attacked during a brazen robbery. Helga van Wyk was viciously stabbed by her assailant at her Durbanville property, and husband Johann was also badly injured trying to fend off the criminal-at-large. The incident took[…]
Around 700 informal structures across the Cape Peninsula have been affected by the heavy rainfall that the Mother City is experiencing. Flooding has also been reported in a number of areas in Cape Town as a result of the heavy downpours. So… the rain has arrived in Cape Town. Nice[…]
“They’re coming!” These were the chilling words that a Stellenbosch protea farmer shouted to his wife while doing a security check after hearing that a farmer in the region had been shot dead. “It’s devastating,” an emotional Gerald Knight told News24 about being robbed hours after Louiesenhof vintner Stefan Smit[…]
Police are searching for the killers of a Stellenbosch wine farmer who was gunned down on his farm Louisenhof on Sunday night. The 62-year-old was embroiled in a land grab and had been fighting to get illegal occupants off his property. 62 year-old Stefan Smit is the second farmer to be killed on his[…]
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