Mfuleni to receive dedicated police station in City municipal building
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Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has agreed to make office space available in the municipal building in Mfuleni, paving the way for the area to finally have its own dedicated police station. The announcement comes after years of frustration from residents who have long complained that policing in the crime-hotspot community is inadequate, as their closest police station is in Blue Downs. The decision was reached during a meeting on Thursday between
On the anniversary of his passing, an investigation into the circumstances of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko’s death will be reopened. The Justice Department announced on Friday morning that Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi ordered that the National Prosecuting Authority enrol the matter at the Gqeberha High Court. Biko, a central figure in the Black Consciousness Movement, died in police custody on this day 48 years ago. The original 1977 inquest found no
The bloodshed continues on the Cape Flats. In the latest incident last night, a 23-year-old man was shot and killed in Tafelsig. The bloodshed continues on the Cape Flats Police Sergeant Wesley Twigg says 2 other men were wounded in the attack on Honolulu Street. He says officers from the Mitchell’s Plain police station had responded to a complaint of a shooting, on 11 September 2025, at about 20:30pm, when they discovered
The Minister of Police, Professor Firoz Cachalia, met with Premier Alan Winde, Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, Safety MEC Anroux Marais and MMC JP Smith in Cape Town on Thursday to discuss the current crime spike in the province and to explore ways to strengthen intergovernmental cooperation in addressing it. During the meeting, Cachalia reaffirmed the importance of the Cooperation Agreement that was entered into by the South African Police Service (SAPS), the Civilian Secretariat
The Western Cape High Court has ruled it unlawful that SAPS raided the offices of Cape Town’s Safety and Security chief, JP Smith. His office, along with that of Mayoral Committee Member for Energy, Xanthea Limberg, was searched by the police’s Commercial Crimes Unit in January as part of a probe into housing tender fraud. ALSO READ: JP Smith takes SAPS to court over office raid Smith has long
