Crime

Taxi strike: Women march to demand end to violence and looting

Philippi marchers call for City of Cape Town to use its CCTV cameras to bring the perpetrators of crimes committed this week to book

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Brief | 10 August 2023

Philippi library closes after robbery and vandalism

“Why vandalise a library that your sister, brother and child needs?” asks ward councillor

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News | 8 August 2023

Family demand justice for teen shot dead during protest

“Not a single government official has come here to show their sympathy” laments Karabo Chaka’s uncle

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News | 7 August 2023

We will take matters into our own hands, Riverlea community leader warns Bheki Cele

Police minister and mining officials meet community following protests over violence blamed on informal miners

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Brief | 4 August 2023

“We are prisoners in our own homes” says Riverlea resident

Protests held against violence blamed on turf wars between zama zamas

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Brief | 31 July 2023

Law firm’s directors suspended after R25-million went missing from trust fund

Directors of Chueu Incorporated Attorneys may not practice for six months while the Legal Practice Council investigates

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Law | 27 July 2023

Businessman at centre of Lottery fund probe arrested for fraud

Petrus Sedibe charged with defrauding a trust fund

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Brief | 24 July 2023

Pay R10,000 or face a year in prison, court tells former SJC leader

Xolani Klaas pleaded guilty to fraudulently selling a cellphone that belonged to the organisation

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News | 19 July 2023

Burned toddler: woman to appear in court on Friday

More than 1,000 people protest in Langa after assault on four-year-old

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News | 11 July 2023

DNA bungling delays justice for family of slain mother

“Three years later, the suspect is roaming outside”

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News | 11 July 2023

Immigrants in Diepsloot say they are scapegoats for crime

Complaints of police harassment

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News | 10 July 2023

Man accused of robbery beaten and set alight in Samora Machel

This comes weeks after two men accused of crime were killed in Philippi

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News | 3 July 2023

EThekwini Municipality fixes streetlights in Bester at last

Community policing forum members says better lit streets will make crime prevention and patrols easier

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Brief | 3 July 2023

Most recipients unpaid after millions stolen from Guardian’s Fund

Justice Department has suspended officials allegedly involved in theft

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Brief | 30 June 2023

Kariega clinics closed after staff robbed at gunpoint

Eastern Cape health department says five incidents at different clinics have left staff and patients traumatised

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Brief | 27 June 2023

Durban community fears life in the dark without streetlights

The City has hired private security after losing millions of rand annually to cable theft and vandalism

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News | 26 June 2023