Cape Town MMC JP Smith says soldiers may calm hotspots briefly, but without arrests and convictions, gun violence will return ...
The Cape Flats has recorded a sharp spike in Cape Flats gang-related killings and shootings between 19 January and 25 January ...
Opposition parties demand urgent action as gang violence surges in the Western Cape, claiming 195 lives in January. Concerns ...
A streak of killings in South Africa's dangerous ganglands in Cape Town has led communities to demand protection as city officials say they lack the resources to stop the violence. "One gangster, one ...
Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says draft regulations giving Cape Town police investigative powers are ‘gathering dust’, as SAPS ...
Manenberg is on edge following a shooting that left one alleged gangster dead and an innocent bystander injured on Thursday morning: ...
Amid rising gang violence in the Western Cape, the Acting Minister of Police admits that SAPS is ill-equipped to handle the ...
Police Minister Firoz Cachalia admits struggles with gang violence in the Western and Eastern Cape as residents plead for ...
Seven people were killed and three others wounded in a suspected extortion-linked mass shooting in Marikana near Cape Town, with police launching a manhunt for the gunmen ...
South African soldiers on Thursday started patrolling Cape Town's crime-ridden townships under a deployment ordered by the government to counter a surge of shootings, gang violence and murders. The ...