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Kinnear killing: Police fail to act on Ipid recommendations
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate advised that disciplinary proceedings be instituted against police officials
Cape Town police confiscate illegal drugs in pre-holiday crackdown
Drug abuse trends upward during the festive season
Man accused of killing four at Cape taxi rank granted R10 000 bail
Mbongeni Songo is facing four counts of murder and one of attempted murder. A fifth person was wounded in the same incident
Three men killed in apparent Cape Town taxi violence flare-up
Three members affiliated with taxi association Cata have been gunned down at the Joe Slovo minibus taxi rank in Cape Town
Taxi violence: Fight for survival in Cape Town’s dangerous turf war
The flare-up of the taxi war in the Western Cape has again shown the industry’s ability to hold commuters, the state and the local economy to ransom
Cape Town transport stabilised after two weeks of taxi violence
But despite the calm, rival taxi associations have not yet made peace in their turf war
Western Cape taxi violence claims more lives, wary residents eye looting in Gauteng and KZN
The ongoing taxi war in the Western Cape claimed the lives of three more people on Tuesday as the province braces itself for the possibility of the looting that has rocked…
New Western Cape police commissioner to sort out old problems
The province gets a permanent police commissioner to fight crime and violence during a time of instability in the police force
Shootings on Cape Flats claim 14 lives in less than a week
At least 50 more police and other law enforcement officers were sent to the area in response to the spate of violence