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Man will serve 25 years for two Tafelsig shootings

Alicia English|Published 1 month ago

Public Protector SA hears women’s maintenance woes

Alicia English|Published 2 months ago

System change needed in maintenance courts

Letter to the Editor|Published 2 months ago

Joint police operations lead to six arrests for illegal drugs and firearms

Alicia English|Published 2 months ago

R4 million in mandrax bust in Beacon Valley

Alicia English|Published 2 months ago

Family oppose bail for alleged killer girlfriend

Alicia English|Published 2 months ago

Residents plea for end to gang violence

Marsha Bothma and Alicia English|Published 2 months ago

Call for effective integrated policing, stricter gun control

Letter to the Editor|Published 2 months ago

Call for immediate action to end gang violence in Mitchell’s Plain

Alicia English|Published 2 months ago

Integrated community-owned anti-gangsterism strategy needed

Letter to the Editor|Published 2 months ago

Gang turf war leaves 7 dead, 5 injured

Alicia English|Published 2 months ago

Stop the gang war

Letter to the Editor|Published 2 months ago

Girl, 6, injured, 4 dead in 5 days of gang shootings

Alicia English|Published 2 months ago

R1. 5 million bust leads spike in ’Plain drug arrests

Alicia English|Published 2 months ago

Taking a look back at 2024

Marsha Bothma|Published 3 months ago

Murders down in Mitchell’s Plain precinct, up in Lentegeur and Strandfontein

Alicia English|Published 4 months ago

Police issue warning over pen zip guns

Alicia English|Published 4 months ago

Call for unity to fight Tafelsig crime

Alicia English|Published 4 months ago

'Gangsterism has become an atrocity’

Alicia English|Published 5 months ago

Another weekend of bloody shootings in Mitchell’s Plain

Alicia English|Published 5 months ago

’Plain’s new police chief takes aim at crime’s roots

Alicia English|Published 6 months ago

Killed for a packet of chips and cigarettes

Alicia English|Published 6 months ago

Cemetery thieves desecrating graves

Phiri Cawe|Published 6 months ago

Get your nominations in for Neighbourhood Watch Awards

Staff Reporter|Published 6 months ago

Integrated service delivery is needed in sub-council

Fouzia Van Der Fort|Published 6 months ago