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Boy, 17, shot dead in Lavender Hill

Gun violence continues to plague the youth on the Cape Flats, with a 17-year-old boy fatally shot in Military Road near Lavender Hill on Thursday evening (6 March). Police spokesperson Joseph Swartbooi confirmed the shooting and said that Muizenberg police have opened a murder investigation. “Muizenberg police responded to a complaint on Thursday 06 March 2025. Upon arrival at the crime scene in Military Road at about 21:30, they found […]

today7 March 2025

International

Airstrike kills 17 Sudanese civilians in Khartoum

At least 17 civilians were killed, including five children, in an airstrike in south Khartoum, according to Sudanese activists on Sunday, reports Anadolu Agency. The attack targeted a residential neighborhood in Mayo suburb in the Sudanese capital late Saturday, the so-called South Belt Emergency Room said in a statement. Eleven people were also injured in the attack. It was not yet clear the party behind the attack, but the Rapid Support […]

today19 June 2023

International News

Iraq: 17 military personnel killed in multiple night-time raids

Eighteen Iraqis, the majority military personnel, were killed overnight Friday to Saturday in separate attacks by militants, mainly in the greater Baghdad area, security sources told AFP. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, but they were in line with the modus operandi of the Islamic State (IS) group, which still has sleeper cells in Iraq despite its territorial defeat in 2017. One attack targetted troops in […]

today2 May 2021

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