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Deadly: Tiffiney Carolisen (in red) leads a march in Delft after her sister, Aqeelah Schroeder, was killed in 2022. Photo: Brenton Geach/Gallo Images
ACTION SOCIETY

Murder spikes as Delft gangs target child recruits

Gang-related deaths totalled 23 in the first 18 days of September

  • Eunice Masson
6 min read
Norman Simons was charged with 22 murders but only convicted of kidnapping and killing a 10-year-old in Mitchells Plain
CANDICE VAN REENEN

‘Station Strangler’ due to be freed after 28 years in jail

Norman Simons was charged with 22 murders but only convicted of kidnapping and killing a 10-year-old in Mitchells Plain

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read
Relaxed: Police Minister Bheki Cele. (David Harrison)
BHEKI CELE

Bheki Cele’s community policing forums plan met with scepticism

However experts warn that SAPS’s R100.6-billion annual budget should be better spent and monitored

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read
Intelligence-driven operations in Cape Town’s suburbs have led to wanted suspects being arrested and illegal drugs confiscated in a pre-festive season police clampdown.
ANTI GANG UNIT

Cape Town police confiscate illegal drugs in pre-holiday crackdown

Drug abuse trends upward during the festive season

  • Eunice Masson
2 min read
Residents of Bonteheuwel in Cape Town are dealing with a trauma all too familiar during September after the fourth fire in recent weeks. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP)
ANGUS MCKENZIE

Fire in Bonteheuwel forces extended family with 15 children into one-bedroom house

This is the fourth fire in in the area in recent weeks

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read
Premier Alan Winde called for the investigation after a court judgment indicated senior police officer had worked with members of the 28 gang. (David Harrison/M&G)
ANTI GANG UNIT

Cape Flats gangsters, children die in fight over turf

Extortion rackets are part of a corrupt system that includes religious leaders, councillors, police and syndicates

  • Eunice Masson
6 min read
Donovan Prins (in frame) was known for his dedication to his job. His death is a blow to his wife Shaldene (left), mother Rachel (right), his colleagues and his neighbourhood. (Barry Christianson/New Frame)
BHEKI CELE

Community police break ranks in Flats

Volunteers call for an independent police manager and soldiers to help stop Western Cape murders

  • Raeesa Pather
7 min read
Zweli Mnisi says the Human Rights Watch report created the impression that all police were brutal.
BHEKI CELE

Data can help SA citizens to beat criminals

For the past decade the police have had powerful tools to help to locate and track crime, which ordinary citizens haven’t been privy to.

  • Phillip De Wet
3 min read
CHRIS HANI

Men arrested after stealing hearse, corpse

Two men stole a hearse with a corpse to go on a drinking spree in Soweto over the weekend, a media report said on Monday. They were caught after the vehicle ran out of petrol on…

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read