Our police fight stats, not crime, the Commission of Inquiry into policing in Khayelitsha heard this week.
Adam Armstrong
News | 20 March 2014
The City has responded to a statement made at the Crime Summit held on 14 March in Khayelitsha.
News | 19 March 2014
Advocate Nazreen Bawa continued to lead evidence today with Colonel Gert Nel, former station commander of Harare police station, and Colonel Tshotleho Raboliba, current station commander at Harare.
Adam Armstrong
News | 18 March 2014
Residents in Makhaya section 23 were arrested at 3am this morning, accused of chasing people out of their homes. While the police were arresting people, two houses in the area were being broken into by criminals.
Pharie Sefali
News | 18 March 2014
Gugulethu based community organisation, Township Youth Movement (TYM), have taken it upon themselves to open a second public library in the township.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 18 March 2014
A 28-year-old Ugandan woman, Lydia Mutuwa, who came to South Africa hoping to get a job to look after her children and ailing mother, says her life has become even harder than the life she ran away from in her country of birth.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 18 March 2014
Residents of the Cape Flats, Khayelitsha, Gugulethu and surroundings have experienced power cuts in their areas. Many residents want to know what to expect. GroundUp asked the City.
Pharie Sefali
News | 18 March 2014
Equal Education and Ndifuna Ukwazi hosted a seminar at Lookout Hill, Khayelitsha, on 13 March titled ‘What Next: Opportunities for post school youth’. Part information, part inspiration, conversations were frank and informative.
Adam Armstrong
Opinion | 18 March 2014
Public hearings of the Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry into allegations of police inefficiency and a breakdown in relations between the community and the police restarted on 17 March with a number of high ranking SAPS officers in attendance.
Adam Armstrong
News | 18 March 2014
Started by a community member 17 years ago, Mdzananda Animal Clinic in Khayelitsha now treats up to 1,000 animals a month.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 17 March 2014
39-year-old Zimbabwean Milton Jaure, also known as Rasmijah, is struggling to get financial support to publish his book of short stories and produce a documentary focusing on the challenges foreigners face when their loved ones die in South Africa.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 17 March 2014
On 14 March, Imam Rashied Omar, chairperson of the Western Cape Religious Leaders Forum (WCRLF), hosted Manenberg community leaders at the Claremont Main Road mosque, where he officiates.
Yazeed Kamaldien
News | 17 March 2014
During the Khayelitsha Commission, community witnesses, academics and police officers related stories of appalling violence, particularly sexual violence. The picture painted is in danger of creating the impression that Khayelitsha is bad, that something is wrong with the community, that it is unsalvageable.
Adam Armstrong
Opinion | 14 March 2014
Gang violence in Manenberg is not decreasing, despite efforts from schools, government departments, and community organisations.
Fergus Turner
News | 12 March 2014
Former gang member Mervin Lewis says what is happening in Mitchells Plain, Manenberg, Nyanga, Khayelitsha and Gugulethu is not a gang fight, but a low intensity civil war.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 12 March 2014
Mpho Mabhena writes about her distressing experience of the plight of women in the Congo.
Mpho Mabhena
Opinion | 12 March 2014