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Cape Town schools demand security guards and metal detectors

Hundreds of residents, teachers and pupils marched to the Khayelitsha Magistrate's Court on Thursday to hand over a memorandum demanding measures to make their schools safer. The protest, organised by the Khayelitsha Education Forum (KEF), called for the Western Cape Department of Education to install metal detectors at all schools and hire security guards 365 days a year. The KEF also called on the department to start a walking bus […]

14 February 2020

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Gunmen attack Prasa security guards

Armed security staff employed by the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) to escort train drivers were attacked and shot at by a group of unknown armed men in Philippi, Samora Machel, in Cape Town on Sunday, Prasa said. The driver of the vehicle was shot in the shoulder, Prasa said in a statement. The attack is not the first on Prasa staff, hence the employment of guards to […]

26 February 2018

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28 CPUT security guards arrested

Twenty-eight security guards were arrested at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology for allegedly being unregistered, police said on Thursday. The arrests, made in terms of the Private Security Industry Regulation Act (PSIRA Act), came during a fraught Chancellor's Week at the institution, which has been marked by protests and intermittent faculty and library shutdowns. CPUT spokesperson Lauren Kansley said the guards were arrested by police on Wednesday night during […]

15 September 2017

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Cape Town schools demand security guards and metal detectors

Gunmen attack Prasa security guards

28 CPUT security guards arrested

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