A prominent safety group who monitor crime in the Table Mountain National Park have released a fiery statement on their social media pages, slamming the government and local authorities for failing to protect visitors. Visit Table Mountain at your own risk.” The embittered post was shared on Sunday afternoon, just a day after a Ukranian..
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UK Foreign Office issued a warning to visitors of Table Mountain after Ukranian businessman was killed during a hike at tourist hot-spot
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Latest study finds over 6,000 people living on the streets of Cape Town
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According to a study concluded in November 2018, there were 6,175 people living in shelters and on the streets of the City of Cape Town. Most were males between the ages of 26 and 45. The majority lived in central Cape Town, Mitchells Plain and Bellville. Addressing an audience, most of whom were homeless, together..
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Garden Route blackout: A main transmission line has gone down in the Southern Cape, Towns plunged into darkness by Eskom fault
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An Eskom blackout plunged the Southern Cape and Garden Route into indefinite darkness on Friday morning. Reports coming in indicate that power has been restored to some municipalities. The apparent loss of a main transmission line in the Southern Cape is to blame for the powerlessness. According to Eskom, technicians were deployed to the affected..
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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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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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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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Boer skiet drie betogers buite Uniondale in Wes-Kaap na geweld uitbreek
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Die polisie ondersoek ’n skietvoorval waarin ’n boer glo Maandag drie betogers buite Uniondale in die Wes-Kaap geskiet het. Kapt. Malcolm Pojie, woordvoerder van die polisie, het aan Maroela Media gesê twee aanklagte van poging tot moord is vanmiddag by die plaaslike polisie aanhangig gemaak. Dít volg nadat ontstoke betogers van Uniondale vanaf vroegoggend op..
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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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