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Western Cape braces for more storms after thousands affected by severe flooding

By Ragheema Mclean Severe weather continues to wreak havoc across the Western Cape, with thousands of homes flooded in informal settlements as heavy rains persist. Roads have been closed, schools and clinics damaged, and some areas completely cut off by flooding. A Level 8 weather warning was issued for Thursday (11 July) in Cape Town, Drakenstein, and Stellenbosch. The City of Cape Town reported on Thursday that the worst-affected areas […]

12 July 2024

Local

Mass shooting leaves Ocean View community reeling in shock

Residents in Ocean View, Cape Peninsula in the Western Cape, are reeling in shock following the murder of six people. Police say a vehicle pulled up outside a house in Neptune Street and gunmen fired shots, killing five people on the scene, the sixth victim died after being taken to hospital. The SAPS Anti-Gang Unit is investigating the mass shooting. Ocean View locals say they have had enough of the […]

13 April 2023

Local

Ocean View SAPS Nab House Robbers

Rapid response by an Ocean View SAPS member led to the arrest of five suspects who committed a house robbery on Saturday. The five suspects aged between 22 and 29 went to an address in Masonwabe Road, Masiphumelele at around 22:50. They forced entry and demanded money from the owner, who managed to alert the police. Constable Chadewell Makanda of Ocean View SAPS responded instantly and arrested four male suspects […]

18 October 2022

Local

Ocean View residents lays complaint against CT mayor following “shut up” incident

An Ocean View resident has laid a complaint against Mayor Dan Plato after being told to "shut up". Last Friday, Plato visited Ocean View to observe the work of a local neighbourhood watch. Aslam Richards approached the mayor and questioned him about a housing project. Plato was then caught on camera where he told Richards to "shut up". The housing activist said that he was assaulted thereafter and has lodged […]

27 March 2021

News

CoCT, CCC at ends over mayor’s comments in viral Ocean View video

The City of Cape Town’s Safety and Security directorate has defended Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato, amid calls for him to step down over an altercation with an Ocean View resident on Friday. According to the City, the footage was distributed by the Cape Coloured Congress (CCC) as a means of politicking, a claim the party disputes. It follows edited video footage taken during a walkabout with ward councillors, Neighbourhood […]

24 March 2021

News

Oceanview resident empowers kids through chess

As gang violence and crime continues to plague various communities in Cape Town, an Ocean View resident has taken it upon himself to keep children off the streets by using the game of chess to impart life lessons. Ocean View resident Vasco Vigis explained that although he grew up in a modest home the area, he would step outside into a “hostile environment” drenched in social ills and temptation. Without […]

14 October 2020

News

Ocean View Resident: ‘It is a sad sight to see’ on work loss under lockdown

Ocean View was established in 1968 as a township for coloured people who had been forcibly removed from so-called ‘white areas’ by the apartheid government under the Group Areas Act. Ocean View is home to a tight-knit community that has been rocked by sporadic incidents of gang violence. But with the introduction of the COVID-19 lockdown, residents claimed that crime has decreased. Resident Paul Franke explained that a sense of […]

12 May 2020

News

Oview masjid calls for calm in the wake of gang and mob violence

The Trustees of the Noorul Islam Mosques Ocean View and Simonstown have condemned the recent violence in Ocean View, sparked by a gang-related shooting which claimed the lives of 7-year-old Emaan Solomans and 31-year-old Abdul Felix. Chaos broke out after a thikr held in the little girls honour on Wednesday night, which saw the houses of alleged gangsters being set alight. “Members of the Anti-Gang Unit , Public Order Police, […]

28 February 2020

News

Night of mayhem in OView heightens calls to tackle gangsterism

By Tauhierah Salie The community of Ocean View is on tenterhooks following a night of violence in retaliation to the senseless murder of seven-year-old girl Emaan Solomans. Police and city law enforcement officers were patrolling the area Thursday after mayhem broke out the night before, when angry locals set alight four houses, alleged to be drug dens. It comes as police are investigating two cases of murder following a shooting incident […]

27 February 2020

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