Crime
Gang violence, not just Manenberg
Township residents are complaining that murders in the townships are not being taken seriously with media and political attention focusing on the Cape Flats.
Pharie Sefali
News | 18 September 2013
“I don’t see myself living anywhere but Manenberg”
Roegchanda Pascoe and her younger brother have watched through the window of their home as rival gangs fought with each other day in and day out. But Pascoe says she doesn’t see herself living anywhere but Manenberg.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 18 September 2013
Civil society organisations visit gang stricken Manenberg
Members of various civil society organisations led a solidarity visit to gang stricken Manenberg to monitor the situation and to lend a helping hand to the community.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 11 September 2013
Millions for Western Cape substance abuse programmes
The Department of Social Development in the Western Cape has increased this years annual budget for interventions to address substance abuse to R87-million.
Nwabisa Pondoyi
News | 11 September 2013
Taxi associations fight over routes
Two taxi drivers from the Delft Taxi Association were shot dead during the course of last week in a shooting spree between taxi drivers from Delft, Nyanga and Khayelitsha over ownership of certain routes.
Pharie Sefali
News | 11 September 2013
The case for decriminalising the use of drugs
Drug abuse harms the individual, their family, community and country. As the drug trade increased globally, to save people from themselves, in 1970, US president Richard Nixon launched the “war on drugs”.
JP van Niekerk
Opinion | 9 September 2013
Police receiving sensitivity training
Hundreds gathered in Gugulethu last week when Deputy Minister of Police Makhotsho Maggie Sotyu addressed the relationship between the police, and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) community and sex workers.
Pharie Sefali
News | 3 September 2013
Activist harrased by police receives bail
An activist who has been trying to hold the police accountable in Khayelitsha appears to be a victim of police harassment. Social Justice Coalition (SJC) activist Angy Peter has been released on R2 000 bail and her case for kidnapping and attempted murder postponed for further investigation.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 28 August 2013
Unsolved deaths in police custody
In December 2011, residents of Nyanga were furious when they heard about the death of Kwezi Mbatsha in police custody.
Pharie Sefali
News | 28 August 2013