Police figures for October to December 2025 are not yet available, but in the first nine months of the year, 2,104 murders were reported to police stations on the Cape Flats. That's a 20% increase ...

Nearly 500 children and teenagers were killed across Cape Flats policing precincts in the past five years, according to figures recently released by Police Acting Minister Firoz Cachalia. Cachalia ...

Simphiwe Jantjies (55) of Tabakbaai in Saldanha Bay, was imprisoned in 1987 for murder and released on 15 July 1995. Thirty years later, he’s kept his promise to his children that they would not live ...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) is investigating a double murder case in Nyanga, Western Cape Two youngsters were shot dead in a house at a property, while three others were injured in the ...

Sidelined Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has repeatedly cited extreme violence in Cape Town’s apartheid dumping grounds – the Cape Flats – as one of the reasons he ordered a police team’s disbandment.

Westbury in Johannesburg is well on the way to becoming the “next Cape Flats” as drugs, illegal guns and gangsterism are tearing the community apart, just as has been happening in Cape Town. Civil ...