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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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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MyCity N2 diens opgeskort tussen Kaapstand sentraal, Khayelitsha en Mitchellsplein weens kontraktuele dispuut
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Weens ‘n kontraktuele dispuut tussen MyCity en die Stadsraad van Kaapstad is die diens tussen Kaapstad sentraal en die gebiede Khayelitsha en Mitchellsplein opgeskort. ‘n Kontrak tussen die Stad, Golden Arrow Busdiens en huurmotor assosiasies het verlede week verval en ʼn nuwe kontrak is nog nie beding nie. Waarnemers wonder oor hoe ʼn raad wag..
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Check your traffic fines! – POSSIBLE TRAFFIC FINE SCAM EXPOSED IN WESTERN CAPE – Road users fined for wrongful speeding
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Like so many others Martin Wohlfarter recently received a traffic fine with a picture of him supposedly speeding in a 80km zone on the N1 near the Huguenot tunnel. But upon closer inspection, and triangulating the exact location of his bakkie at the position of an electricity mast and prominent rocks and boulders on the..
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Franse toeris beroof, aangerand in historiese Bo-Kaap
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‘n Vroulike Franse toeris is in die historiese Bo-Kaap van haar besittings beroof en in die nek gesteek met ‘n skerp voorwerp. Toeriste is klaarblyklik maklike teikens in die gebied en is ook nie bewus van die gevare in die area nie. Toeriste word al hoe meer gewaarsku om Suid Afrika te vermy weens die..
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R33 miljoen se skade in brand by treinstasie – 12 treinwaens en 300 m se kabels is verwoes na brandstigting
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Die skade van die brand Sondag by die Kaapstad-treinstasie waarin twee treine verwoes is, beloop minstens R33 miljoen. Metrorail in die Wes-Kaap het die verwoesting van die treine as ʼn “reuse-terugslag” bestempel. Maroela Media het vroeër berig die brand het Sondag omstreeks 15:40 plaasgevind en twee treine op platforms 13 en 14 is verwoes toe..
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Great news for Cape Town’s theme park ride lovers as Canal Walk announces the Ratanga Family Entertainment Centre
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Fans of Cape Town’s now defunct theme park Ratanga Junction have received some good news in the form of an announcement by Canal Walk Shopping centre. The shopping centre have announced a multi-million Rand project to revamp their current food court and outside areas and to build the new Ratanga Family Entertainment Centre. Gavin Wood,..
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9 treinwaens verwoes op Kaapstad-stasie tydens brand
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Die brand by die Kaapstad-treinstasie is vroeg Sondagaand geblus. Jermaine Carelse, woordvoerder van die nooddienste in Kaapstad, sê niemand is beseer in die brand nie. Hy sê nege treinwaens van twee treine is in die brand verwoes. Dit is nog onduidelik wat die oorsaak van die brand is. Swart rookwolke het Sondagmiddag oor die middestad..
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Franse oliemaatskappy trotseer Kaap van Storms in soektog na olie – SA sal min voordeel trek uit projek indien olie gevind word, aandeel in die soektog is ’n skrale 10%
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Die Franse oliemaatskappy Total sal die Kaap van Storms moet trotseer wanneer hy met boorwerk begin, op soek na olie. Alhoewel die soektog algemeen beskou word as ’n wonderlike gebeurtenis wat dalk vir Suid-Afrika groot voordele kan inhou as die olie gevind word, maar voor dit gebeur, is daar ’n paar “see slaggate” wat oorkom..
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