Crime

Families fear graves have been robbed in Langa cemetery

“Back in the day we respected the cemetery and were scared to even point at graves”

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Brief | 30 April 2019

Buy or expropriate the land, Marikana shack dwellers tell City

“In a big and beautiful city like Cape Town I don’t expect this kind of life”

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Brief | 24 April 2019

Train arson suspect sent for psychiatric assessment

Court case postponed until 2 May

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Brief | 24 April 2019

Immigrant-owned shop saved by residents, later looted

Owner says this is the fourth time since 2007 he has had to flee. Police stretched to the limit

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Brief | 12 April 2019

Immigrant-owned shops ransacked in Strand

Residents blame land occupiers, but occupiers deny involvement

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News | 12 April 2019

Villagers want authorities to build a wall to divide them

Residents in Zitha and Sicamba in the Eastern Cape have been feuding since last year

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News | 11 April 2019

Langa residents march to police station on Saturday night

“If you go to the police station after midnight, you will find it closed”

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Brief | 8 April 2019

School for deaf burgled four times and set alight twice

“All my colleagues are traumatised. We never expected such a calamity”

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Brief | 2 April 2019

Death penalty debate is a cheap political trick

Politicians are once again trying to use capital punishment to get votes

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Opinion | 1 April 2019

Hundreds arrested in PRASA crackdown

Western Cape Regional Manager says copper theft has reached unprecedented levels

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News | 27 March 2019

Housing activist killed in occupied Cape Town building

Former SWEAT official Ayanda Denge stabbed in Helen Bowden Nurses’ Home

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News | 26 March 2019

“I’m doing it for all the blood of innocent people shed on the streets of the Cape Flats”

“Government keeps on saying that communities don’t want to speak up, but look what happens when you do”

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Feature | 26 March 2019

Pietermaritzburg community gripped by fear as witnesses and police are murdered

“These murders are done by people who are known”

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News | 22 March 2019

Protesters extort cash and goods from immigrant shopkeepers

“I always give them two litres of paraffin for burning tyres during protests”

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News | 21 March 2019

Zimbabweans in Limpopo village fear for their future

Police said to have been given an ultimatum by local group to evict all undocumented Zimbabweans

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News | 13 March 2019

Immigrant shop owners targeted by criminals in Lusikisiki

Hawkers’ Association fears immigrants will leave: “The consequences will be terrible for us all”

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Brief | 12 March 2019