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Phillipi community face yet another tragedy as fire rips through informal settlement

By: Aneeqa du Plessis Not even a week after a fire ripped through the Phola Park Informal settlement in Phillipi, killing a woman and leaving hundreds displaced, residents have had to brace themselves for yet another tragedy after over 100 informal dwellings were destroyed in a blaze shortly after 14h00 on Thursday afternoon. Community member residing in the informal settlement, Samkelo Sokweni, 40, said they were alerted to the blaze […]

6 January 2023

Local

We’ve lost everything, say victims of Polar Park inferno

Residents affected by a devastating blaze in Polar Park informal settlement in Phillippi, Cape Town, said they do not know where to turn as they have lost everything. In a tragic start to the new year, a fire ripped through the shacks in the informal settlement in the early hours of Sunday leaving one dead and hundreds homeless. One of the affected residents, Thandazwa Mpontshane, said she was not home […]

2 January 2023

News

Phillipi woman perishes in New Year’s Day fire

By: Aneeqa du Plessis As citizens usher in the New Year, tragic scenes are playing out in Phola Park, Phillipi where a woman died in an early morning fire. According to the City of Cape Town’s Fire and Rescue Service, close to 200 structures were destroyed leaving almost 1 000 people displaced in the blaze that broke out before 03h00. Spokesperson Jermaine Carelse said a total of 12 firefighting appliances […]

1 January 2023

News

CT Police appeal for info after body of Nomvuzo Atoll, 22, found in Phillipi

Local authorities have appealed to the public to come forward with any information which could assist them in unpacking the circumstances surrounding a body that was found in the Phillipi area. An investigation has been launched after the body of a woman was found in Siyanyanzela informal settlement in Philippi on Thursday morning. It was later revealed that the body was that of a missing 22-year old Nomvuzo Atoli, a […]

21 August 2020

Local

Suspect appears in SA court over Cape Town teenager’s murder

The man accused of raping and murdering a South African teenager made his first appearance at the Wynberg magistrate’s court in Cape Town on Tuesday. Leonard Mzingeli, 25, from the Siyangena Informal Settlement in Philippi has been charged with murder of 17 year old Amahle Quku whose naked body was found in a grassy spot on Saturday morning. Quku was reportedly raped, but authorities have not confirmed this. National Prosecuting […]

23 June 2020

Local

Man arrested after body of missing girl, 12, found in Cape Town

A man has been arrested after the body of missing 12-year-old Michaela Williams was found in Philippi, Cape Town, in the early hours of Thursday morning, Western Cape police have said. Williams was last seen at her Crane Street residence in New Horizon, Grassy Park, on Tuesday afternoon and was reported missing in the early hours of Wednesday morning. She was in the company of a man who lived in […]

9 January 2020

Local

Mbalula to visit Phillipi after deadly mass shootings

Police Minister, Fikile Mbalula will visit Phillipi East on the Cape Flats on Tuesday morning. The visit comes after a total of 18 people were shot and killed at the nearby Marikana informal settlement last week. Over 50 police officers will continue to monitor the area for the next three months. On Friday night, 11 people were shot and killed, four in a tavern, three in a shack and the […]

3 October 2017

Local

23 dead in CT’s Marikana as war rages between gangs

Hundreds of people, including children, have fled Cape Town's Marikana informal settlement as gangs and community protection patrols fight it out in a war that has left 23 dead in the past three weeks. At night residents are woken by the sound of automatic gunfire as the patrols and criminals take each other on in running gunfights. On Friday night gunmen - believed to be linked to criminal gangs - […]

2 October 2017

News

Hanover Park residents demand action in the eradication of continued violence

With on-going calls for an end to gang violence and crime within the Cape Flats, residents of Hanover Park over the weekend took to the streets urging for reform at the Philippi Police Station. In angry calls, organisers have voiced concern that the precinct has not adequately dealt with crime in the area and its surrounds. Speaking to VOC’s Breakfast Beat, Hanover Park Civic Association chairperson, Igsaan Nazier explained that […]

28 August 2017

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