Cape Town police have confirmed that they are liaising with the next of kin of the man who fell to his death from the Hotel Sky last Monday. Although his identity has been confirmed, police are not disclosing it to the public. Police have confirmed his age – he was 33. Lt Col Malcolm Poje says the family has requested to keep his identity private. His body will be handed to his next
The City of Cape Town and the National Departments of Home Affairs and Public Works have approached the Western Cape High Court to seek an eviction order for the remaining foreign nationals occupying two sites in Cape Town, Wingfield and ‘Paint City’ in Bellville. While hundreds of foreign nationals have accepted support to relocate from these sites over several years, the remaining unlawful occupants have refused all offers of assistance by the state
A juvenile Humpback whale has been successfully disentangled from fishing rope and flotation buoys in a challenging disentanglement operation off the West Coast on Tuesday, 17 June. NSRI crews from Lamberts Bay, St Helena Bay and Yzerfontein were alerted by the SA Whale Disentanglement Network after they received calls from a fishing vessel about the whale in distress north of Elands Bay. On arrival in the area where the whale had
The NPA is seeking a life sentence for 4 convicted murderers. The four were convicted yesterday of the premeditated murder of a 23-year-old disabled woman. Nomdundu Mafani was killed in the Southern Cape in 2022 in KwaNokhuthula. The NPA is seeking a life sentence for 4 convicted murderers The 23-year old Mafani was asleep when she was shot 15 times, which resulted in her death. She was in killed in April 2022.
The City of Cape Town is grappling with a mounting list of derelict and non-compliant properties, with 922 buildings currently listed by the Law Enforcement Problem Building Unit (PBU). Of these, 35% – or 322 properties – are active investigations. The Law Enforcement Problem Building Unit has 922 buildings on its list – of these, 35% are active investigations, with most being monitored to ensure continued compliance. See: https://t.co/2KzpvBUk9p#CTNews #SafetyandSecurity pic.twitter.com/PuCy3Ivp2S
