A new wave of young energy is transforming local police stations across the Western Cape. They are doing this one coat of paint, one patrol vehicle and one opportunity at a time. Police- Colonel Andrè Traut says through the SAPS Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), hundreds of young men and women are hard at work repainting community service centres. MEC Marais said, “Thank you to the South African Police Service for
Parts of Khayelitsha remain under sewage water days after a pipe burst caused flooding in the Kanana Informal Settlement, leaving several families displaced. The City of Cape Town’s Water and Sanitation Department confirmed that on Tuesday night, a 160mm sewer pipe connected to the mainline draining to the Zandvliet Wastewater Treatment Works collapsed, flooding homes with wastewater. Gift of the Givers teams were among the first to respond after receiving
Claremont police have registered an inquest for further investigation, after a woman’s death at Cavendish Square shopping centre on Monday evening. Officers responded to a complaint at about 20:10, when they found the body of a 46-year-old woman, who was declared deceased on the scene by medical personnel. Police say an autopsy will be conducted to confirm the cause of death. According to reports, the woman may have jumped to her death
A security guard has been shot and killed in Gugulethu. He was sitting in a light delivery vehicle, in NY 05, when he was murdered. At the same time, three other people who were with him in the vehicle were wounded in the attack yesterday afternoon (Thursday, 09 October 2025), at about 15:00. “Upon arrival on the scene, they found a security guard inside a GWM light delivery vehicle who sustained gunshot
As World Mental Health Day is observed today, the South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG) raised alarm over the limited access to mental healthcare in the country, calling it a “critical gap” that demands urgent attention. SADAG’s Operations Director Cassey Chambers says too many South Africans continue to suffer in silence. “It is shocking that only one in ten South Africans with a mental health illness
