Tributes are pouring in following the tragic passing of two sisters from Johannesburg, while a third sister was injured, following a serious crash in the Klein Karoo near Britsdown and Victoria West in the Northern Cape on Saturday night. The three Moodley sisters, Storm, Connor and Cassidy, were on their way back home after they attended their cousin’s university graduation in Cape Town, when the accident happened. The 23-year-old Cassidy and 25-year-old
The City of Cape Town, together with the South African Police Service (SAPS), is working to track down suspects linked to an attempted cable theft in Hanover Park on Sunday that left parts of the community without power. According to the City, the incident occurred when suspects allegedly tried to steal electricity infrastructure, sparking an outage in the area. One of the suspects sustained serious burn wounds during the attempt and was
Nyanga police are investigating at least four murders, and one attempted murder, following shooting incidents in the precinct since last Wednesday night, 10 September. At least three of these incidents are related to the ongoing taxi conflict. In the first in the string of shootings, a 61-year-old man, reportedly CATA’s first deputy chairperson Mnikeli Mgope, was shot and fatally wounded at the Nyanga taxi rank at about 20:10 on Wednesday. Police members
Taxi commuters are reminded to seek alternative transport from Wednesday as the Western Cape Government enforces a 30-day shutdown of routes between Mfuleni and Somerset West. The decision affects multiple routes linking Khayelitsha, Mfuleni, Lwandle, Nomzamo and Somerset West, as well as specified taxi rank lanes in these and surrounding areas. It comes after violent and deadly confrontations in recent weeks. READ MORE: Announcement on extraordinary measures in the minibus-taxi
South African mountain biking sensation and Olympian Alan Hatherly has been hailed after he successfully defended his title in the elite men’s Cross-Country race at the 2025 UCI Mountain Bike World Championship in Switzerland over the weekend. Hatherly took advantage of a mistake from early leader Victor Koretzky of France to go clear on the second of nine laps of the Crans Montana circuit, and he disappeared over the mounds and hills and
