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Ten suspects arrested for alleged kidnapping to appear at Bellville Magistrate’s Court

Ten suspects aged between 20-years-old and 30-years-old are expected to appear in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court in Cape Town on charges of armed robbery and kidnapping, on Tuesday. They were arrested in Nyanga on the Cape Flats at the weekend following the robbery and kidnapping of a 47-year-old businessman from Bellville. The armed suspects allegedly accosted the businessman in Voortrekker Road last Thursday. Police launched a search operation with crime […]

today30 March 2021

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CT man found with various drugs worth R100k

A 49-year old man has been arrested in Cape Town on charges of dealing in drugs worth an estimated R100k. Police spokesperson FC van Wyk says members of the central police station were doing visible patrols, stop and searches and focusing on Long Street night clubs for extortion, when they noticed a vehicle in DF Malan Street, with a very suspicious looking occupant in it. Upon searching the vehicle, members […]

today22 November 2020

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City, State and community in stand-off over homeless move amid covid-19 lockdown

The City of Cape Town and the national government are in a feud over where to house refugees that have been squatting in the Cape Town CBD since October last year. A number of foreign nationals occupied the UNHRC building in Greenmark Square to demand that they are repatriated to other countries as they fear xenophobia in South Africa. After moving to the Central Methodist Church closeby, where some refugees […]

today8 April 2020

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Police block resident from going to chemist for sick son

Cape Town man travelling to a 24-hour pharmacy to pick up medication for his sick 5-year-old son was allegedly forced to go home by police after being stopped at a roadblock. This was despite having a valid reason for being out of the house during lockdown. Shakeel Ismail, a Rondebosch East resident, said he decided to drive to M-Kem pharmacy in Belville in the early hours on Sunday morning after […]

today2 April 2020

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Two foreigners arrested in CT for illegal possession of abalone, processing equipment worth over R800,000

Two foreign nationals were arrested after they were found in possession of a large quantity of illegal abalone in Bellville in Cape Town, the South African Police Service (SAPS) in the Western Cape said on Saturday. On Thursday, vigilant members of the SAPS Bellville crime prevention unit (CPU) acted on information about illegal abalone in a house in Kommesaris Street in Welgemoed in Bellville, SAPS spokesperson Siyabulela Malo said in […]

today26 January 2020

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