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CRIME STATS | More women, children murdered between April and June

Forty more women and 50 children were killed between April and June 2023 than in the corresponding period the previous year, dealing a blow to the fight to tackle violence against women and children. This was revealed by police top brass, led by police minister Bheki Cele, during the presentation of crime statistics for the first quarter of the 2023-2024 financial year to parliament's police portfolio committee on Friday. The […]

19 August 2023

Local

Eastern Cape town of Engcobo relies on Imbizo to reduce high incidence of murders

An Imbizo to try and curb the high number of murders in Engcobo, Eastern Cape, is being held in the town. More than 50 murders have been reported since 2014 without any successful arrests. At the beginning of this year, 12 murder cases were reported in the town. The latest victim was buried last weekend. One of the residents, Mgcineni Kolo says he lost his wife last year. “My wife was gunshot […]

14 July 2022

Local

7 wounded, 1 dead in Mitchell’s plain drive-by shooting

A woman has been killed in an attack in which eight people, including three children, were shot in Mandalay, in Cape Town. She died in hospital following the drive-by shooting at a birthday party on Saturday night. The police’s Andre Traut said, “At around 20:20pm occupants of a green Honda Ballade fired randomly at guests attending a birthday party at a residence in Montclair Drive Mandalay and then fled the […]

17 October 2021

Local

Gang violence possible motive in Khayelitsha mass shooting: Police

Police are not ruling out the possibility that gang violence may be the motive for a mass shooting in Khayelitsha on the Cape Flats in the early hours of Sunday morning. Seven people were killed and several others injured, including a 6-year-old child. One person has been arrested so far. Speaking outside a house in Khayelitsha where seven people were gunned down on Sunday morning, Police Minister Bheki Cele says […]

11 March 2020

Local

Philippi gets new station commander following murders

A new station commander has been appointed and at least 40 extra police officers will be brought to Philippi East police station on the Cape Flats following 18 murders in the past week. Police have also arrested 45 people, among them five suspected kingpins. Police minister Fikile Mbalula says he's decided to replace the previous station commander, Colonel Vuyisile Payi because residents do not trust him. The new commander is […]

4 October 2017

International News

At least 28 inmates killed in bloody Mexican prison fight

At least 28 inmates were killed in a brutal prison fight on Thursday in the Mexican Pacific resort of Acapulco, in one of the worst outbreaks of violence in the country's troubled penal system in recent years. Acapulco is the biggest city in Guerrero, one of Mexico's most lawless states and a center of opium poppy production that has been a major concern to U.S. officials. The prison carnage was […]

7 July 2017

murders

CRIME STATS | More women, children murdered between April and June

Eastern Cape town of Engcobo relies on Imbizo to reduce high incidence of murders

7 wounded, 1 dead in Mitchell’s plain drive-by shooting

Gang violence possible motive in Khayelitsha mass shooting: Police

Philippi gets new station commander following murders

At least 28 inmates killed in bloody Mexican prison fight

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