Ten people have been shot during an attack on a minibus taxi at the Nyanga taxi rank on Wednesday morning. According to police reports, several unidentified suspects randomly shot at a taxi, injuring several people. Police Captain F.C. van Wyk says Nyanga police members were dispatched to the shooting incident immediately. According to Van Wyk, there are currently ten people shot in total of which two females were declared deceased on the
An alleged incident of police brutality is what the Cape Crime Crisis Coalition (C4) believes resulted in the death of a man in Elsies River. The coalition alleges that members of the South African Police Service’s Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) were interrogating several people last Tuesday following a shooting in the area and accuses the officers of having assaulted the suspects during questioning. According to the coalition’s steering committee member, Imraahn
The City of Cape Town has launched a new 400-member Highway Cleaning Unit to keep the metro’s main transport routes and public spaces clean. The teams have already begun work along major highways, arterial roads, and transport hubs across the city. The City has allocated R88 million for the initiative in the 2025/2026 financial year, creating close to 400 new jobs, including workers, team leaders, and senior foremen. The unit will
Cape Town has been rocked by three triple murders in just over a week. The latest murders were this morning in Montclair, Lentegeur in Mitchell’s Plain. The other two recent ones were Sunday in Delft and last Tuesday in Philippi East. In this morning’s incident, at around 06:00, the bodies of two men and a woman were found. They were in their twenties. The Provincial Commissioner of the Western Cape, Lieutenant
Ashton traffic officials and ‘fixer’ handed hefty sentences for learner licence bribery scheme
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The Cape Town Magistrates’ Court has handed down heavy sentences to two former traffic officials, Karel Davids and Andile Dondolo, from the Ashton Traffic Department, and a private individual, Jason Naidoo, following their convictions on corruption charges. The trio had set up a scheme which resulted in members of the public bribing the officials in return for learner’s licences. The court convicted Davids, a law enforcement official, Dondolo, a Traffic Chief at
