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Community lives in fear after couple died in fire at Lotus Park in Gugulethu
Lotus Park dwellers in Gugulethu are urging the City of Cape Town to provide them with decent houses after a couple died in a shack fire.
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‘I heard people shouting ‘fire-fire’ outside’: Inferno kills mother and son in Khayelitsha
SST informal settlement residents were left traumatised after a woman and her 18-month-old son were killed in a shack fire on Sunday 2 April.
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Churches pray for police safety over Easter long weekend
Worshippers from different churches gathered at JL Zwane Centre on Wednesday 29 March to pray for a safer Easter period and the safety of the police officers who will be on duty during the long weekend.
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‘Amapantsula’ have a real cause
The number of families gearing-up for Easter festivities, looking forward to their eats and treats, will be matched by others unsure of where their next meal or treat will be coming from over that long weekend. With this in mind,…
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Nyanga taxi operators pray for a safe Easter on the roads
Road safety takes centre stage this week as thousands of worshippers and vocational travellers gear for a long Easter weekend and the City of Cape Town is leaving nothing to chance.
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Police vow to do more to fight crime wherever it is needed
Langa High School hall was packed to the rafters on Wednesday 29 March as police top brass in the province visited the neighbourhood to engage residents on the strides made to fight crime.
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PAC demands to be recognised
In a quest to rewrite history books and “set the record straight” about the events of March 1960, scores of Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) members, residents and church leaders held a peaceful march on Thursday 30 Mach.
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Peace prevails amid EFF’s ‘national shutdown’
Local development forums have praised law enforcement officers for a stunning job during the ‘national shutdown’ on Monday 20 March.
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Owner of popular hair salon in Samora Machel gunned down in cold blood
Samora Machel residents are calling for law enforcement authorities to leave no stone unturned in their quest to bring the killers of the owner of a popular hair salon to the book.
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Painting of slain victim of homophobic attack unveiled in Khayelitsha
Almost two years since their child was brutally killed in an apparent homophobic attack, family and friends of Phelokazi Mqathanya, from Site C, gathered at Intlanganiso High School for the unveiling of her painting.










