Activists are amplifying the call for collective action in addressing gender-based violence and femicide (GBV/F), as 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children gets underway. This year’s theme is “Letsema: Men, Women, Boys and Girls working together to end Gender-Based Violence and Femicide”. This is the 27th year since the adoption of the campaign, and Celeste Matthews-Wannenburgh of the activist group Women Zone Cape Town hopes it will be the year
The SAPS 10111 Call Centre is temporarily offline in some areas. This is because there’s a temporary outage affecting telephone lines. Colonel Andrè Traut from the South African Police Service in the Western Cape says telephone lines in parts of the Peninsula are currently experiencing an outage. The SAPS 10111 Call Centre is temporarily offline This, in turn, has affected the SAPS 10111 call centre. He has urged members of the
South African National Parks (SANParks) says it is fully prepared to manage a surge in visitors to Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) during the upcoming festive season, following a year of rising visitor numbers and strengthened safety operations. According to SANParks spokesperson JP Louw, the park has deployed 157 rangers across TMNP, working alongside the 40-member Sea-Air-Mountain (SEAM) special operations unit, SAPS, City Law Enforcement, neighbourhood watches, City Improvement Districts and volunteer safety
The Cape Flats Safety Forum (CFSF) says the South African Police Service (SAPS) is showing stronger, more proactive efforts to curb drugs and illicit goods across the Cape Flats. This follows an early-morning operation today in Mitchells Plain, where members of the Anti-Economic Crime Task Team and the Counterfeit and Illicit Goods Policing Team, working under Operation Shanela II, executed a targeted raid aimed at shutting down criminal activity in the area.
Efforts to fight mountain fires have seen a big boost. This is because the Cape Winelands District Municipality has welcomed a batch of new firefighters. They graduated from the firefighter training course on Friday at the Ysterplaat Air Force Base. An excited Mayor Elna von Schlicht announces that the new firefighters have completed an internationally accredited course. https://smilefm.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/WhatsApp-Video-2025-11-24-at-12.53.40-1.mp4
