Public service workers remain vulnerable to attack in Cape Town, with more than 50 incidents involving social workers recorded since last year. The DA recently revealed that since April 2024, these employees have fallen victim to hijackings, intimidation and assault while on duty. ALSO READ: GroundUP/Western Cape government calls for harsher penalties for attacks on social workers According to DA Western Cape Spokesperson on Social Development, Wendy Kaizer-Philander,
SASSA has announced that it will introduce mandatory Beneficiary Biometric Enrolment in all its offices from 1 September. The agency says this is set to revolutionise the administration of social grants, as the biometric enrolment will detect any potentially fraudulent activities in the SASSA’s grant system. The introduction of Biometric Enrolment comes after a series of engagements with organised labour on a number of issues, which SASSA says have since been resolved.
The City’s Urban Mobility Directorate has called for calm amid renewed violence between rival taxi associations in the Helderberg Basin. Over the past week, tensions between taxi associations CATA and CODETA in Somerset West, Lwandle, and surrounding areas have escalated, with reports of armed attacks, intimidation of drivers and commuters, and the loss of lives. The City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Urban Mobility, Rob Quintas, has described these incidents as criminal and
Anti-Gang unit detectives are investigating a deadly gang-related shooting outside the Mitchells Plain on Monday, 25 August. According to reports, at about 11:15, two men, who had just appeared in court, were leaving the building and stood outside for a while. Four armed suspects surprised them and fired numerous gunshots. One man died on the scene, while the second victim was transported to a nearby hospital with serious gunshot wounds.
Western Cape police are probing three separate taxi conflict-related shootings since Saturday that left four people dead and eight others wounded. In the first incident on Saturday morning, a man was shot dead at the Somerset taxi rank in Makhaza. READ: Taxi driver shot and killed at Somerset taxi rank in Makhaza Police officers reacted to a complaint about a shooting incident, and upon arrival, they found the body of the
