President Cyril Ramaphosa has informed the National Assembly that he has employed 1,320 members of the SA National Defence Force for service in cooperation with the police for the prevention and combating of crime and to maintain and preserve law and order in the Western Cape. In the letter, dated July 17, and addressed to..
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Army deployment to the Western Cape to help the police quell gang violence will cost R23.4m
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Uber bestuurder kop in een mus met misdadigers? – Bolandse gesin word gekaap en besteel In Stellenbosch
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Wat ’n heerlike aand vol pret en plesier moes wees vir ’n ouerpaar en hul twee kinders, ontaard in‘n nagmerrie rit na kapers toeslaan op Uber-taxi in Bolandse dorp Stellenbosch. Die gesin, wat anoniem wil bly uit vrees vir hul lewens, het Vrydagaand ’n geselligheid naby die stadsaal, in Stellenbosch bygewoon. Die pa het omstreeks..
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43 killed in another bloody weekend in Cape Town – 25 were shot and 12 stabbed
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Another bloody weekend in Cape Town saw 43 people being murdered, Premier Alan Winde confirmed on Monday. Provincial forensics services recorded these numbers between Friday night and Monday morning. “[The] SAPS started running a national joint operational and intelligence structure operation on Thursday night in the areas of Philippi, Steenberg and Delft,” Winde said in..
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SANDF deployed to Cape Town’s gang-infested areas to curb crime, but no army deployed to curb farm murders?
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The South African National Defence Force will join an operation to clamp down on Cape Town’s gang infested areas on Friday, Police Minister Bheki Cele announced on Thursday evening. He made the announcement towards the end of his budget speech, and elaborated further at a press briefing shortly thereafter. He said after last weekend, where..
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Sisulu wants her Dept to be first to benefit from Land Expropriation Law and the city of Cape Town is at the top of her list for expropriation
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CAPE TOWN – Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said that her department would want first dibs on expropriated land once the legislation comes into effect. Sisulu has welcomed a draft legislation on the expropriation of land already having been published and said they hope the process could be fast-tracked. She added her..
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Misdaad ruk handuit in Wes-Kaap weens ernstige tekort aan hulpbronne in SAPD
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Daar is net te veel misdaad-brandpunte in Kaapstad wat terselfdertyd opvlam en te min polisiëring om al die geweld te keer, sê JP Smith, burgemeesterskomiteelid vir veiligheid. Hy sê in ’n verklaring hoewel die polisie van die Kaapstadse metroraad met die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens (SAPD) saamwerk om so doeltreffend moontlik ekstra operasies uit te voer is..
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Western Cape is becoming a war zone! Sadly there is only 1 cop for every 509 people in the province
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According to the 2017/18 crime figures, national murder rate increased by almost 7%, which translates to 57 murders a day. The latest crime statistics show that detectives in Nyanga, Cape Town, investigate 308 murders a year on average. This was 27 more than the previous financial year. Western Cape Premier Alan Winde said police were..
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Cape Town dad drove his family to safety in his final moments after he was shot by criminals who tried to hijack him
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A loving dad from Blackheath, John Neethling, who was shot by two men in Heath Road,managed to drive his white VW Polo Vivo to a nearby garage where he passed away. In a separate incident earlier, the would-be hijackers fatally shot Patrick Cosani, chairman of the Blackheath-Malibu Taxi Association, in his school bus in his..
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Has South Africa become too unsafe for open show houses? (sound clip)
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In order to conduct not only a successful but safe, show house, Greeff encourages following these tips to ensure optimum safety: 1. Familiarise yourself with the property As the chosen agent for your show house, your seller exercises full trust and confidence in you to take the utmost care of any belongings they may have..
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Farmers says that they will protect themselves from now on after attacks escalate
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In a week of violent farm attacks that sent shock waves throughout the country, farm residents are fed up with talk and have decided to take control of their own safety. Reinhard Fourie lives in Stellenbosch and is a member of the local neighborhood watch. His family owns a farm in Ceres and while they..
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