Articles for Phumeza Halonisi

Extortion gangs terrorise Cape Town’s immigrant shop owners

Vigilantism on the rise as people accuse the police of failing them

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News | 20 November 2025

11-year-old killed as police van crashes into shack in Cape Town

Angry residents set van alight

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News | 6 October 2025

Police van crashes into shacks, injures two, and leaves families homeless

The families say SAPS only took their statements a week after the incident

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News | 18 September 2025

Blue Downs residents clash with police

Two men have been arrested for public violence

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Brief | 29 July 2025

Paramedics protest in Mfuleni, following attacks

“We are now working closer with the police and the community to make sure that the emergency services workers are protected at all costs”

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Brief | 2 June 2025

No identity eight years after submitting DNA evidence

Home Affairs incompetence leaves young woman stateless for decades

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News | 25 April 2025

Mother of three dies in Cape Town shack fire

Eight shacks burnt down in Marikana informal settlement on the weekend leaving 24 people homeless

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Brief | 11 November 2024

Father unable to register his son because he is not the mother

Despite DNA tests, Home Affairs refused to issue birth certificate to single dad’s son

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News | 14 August 2024

Man found dead after arrest: family demands answers from police

Western Cape SAPS have opened an inquest docket

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News | 25 July 2024

Two people die as fire rips through crowded backyard in Strand

Community leader says there were 13 shacks in one yard in Nomzamo township in Cape Town

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Brief | 1 July 2024