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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Latest study finds over 6,000 people living on the streets of Cape Town
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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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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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DA COUNCILLOR HELPS ANC TAKE CONTROL OF CEDERBERG MUNICIPALITY – ANC member elected themselves to executive posts when the DA caucus walked out
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CAPE TOWN – The African National Congress (ANC) has taken over the governance of the Cederberg Municipality on the West Coast. This comes after an urgent motion brought by the ANC to remove Democratic Alliance (DA) mayor Joseph Farmer. With the help of one DA councillor, the ANC managed to snatch control of council. ANC..
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Petrolbom-aanval: Vragmotorbestuurder van Paarl sterf na twee weke in die hospitaal
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Die vragmotorbestuuder van die Paarl wat ernstig beseer is toe ’n petrolbom by sy vragmotor se kajuit ingegooi is, is Vrydag oorlede het sy vrou, Ciska aan Huisgenoot bevestig. Bernard Groenewald was vir minstens twee weke in die Worcester-Mediclinic behandel. Hy het 60% tot 70% se brandwonde opgedoen. Bernard het Sondagoggend 2 Junie langs die..
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Elderly man fights off three attackers armed with a gun, knife and knobkerrie on farm near Citrusdal
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A man was assaulted by three suspects on a farm near Citrusdal, Western Cape, on Saturday June 15 2019. Three suspects armed with a gun, knife and a knobkerrie assaulted a 68-year-old man on a farm near Citrusdal in the Western Cape at the weekend. “The victim was assaulted by the suspects and transported to..
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