Archive for the 'Crime' Category
Welcome to South Africa – where you are guaranteed of one thing – to be a victim or witness of a crime! Viva 2010 Soccer World Cup. The 711 in Sandown Road was robbed earlier this morning and visiting the store will find yourself wrapped in police tape that has cornered the area off. No [...]
Something strange is happening in Parklands/Table View lately… first a house burns down just off Raats Drive and now on Monday night another house burnt down just off Link Road. Nobody was injured and the house was not occupied at the time.
It took the Milnerton Fire Department (along with a vehicle from Melkbos if I’m [...]
Just stop your crap, all of you!
RUMOURS of further disruption and possible violence by striking taxi operators in the Du Noon area were dismissed by the mayor of Cape Town, Ms Helen Zille, in a statement issued on Monday.
Zille said she had personally spoken to the chairperson of the dissident National Taxi Association (NTA) who [...]
Shocking mindless people!
Poachers with packs of dogs have been targeting Cape Town nature reserves where they hunt animals as part of lucrative betting schemes.
City officials say the poachers operate with up to 20 dogs at a time which hunt small antelope and anything else they can catch, particularly in the Blaauwberg Conservation Area and in [...]
Shocking Crimes!
Die Burger journalist Anri Cronjé reports from Blaauwberg Beach north of Cape Town that West Beach resident Alexander Bezuidenhout, 52, was shot dead execution style in front of his wife, pictured left. He’d been mowing the lawn in front of their home when he was attacked by two armed black men, who chased him [...]
A Cape Town man has described his shock at finding a dead man trapped under his electric garage door on Tuesday.
Alan Roodt, of Blaauwberg Road in Table View, told the Cape Argus on Wednesday that he had been sleeping at about 1.45pm on Tuesday – he works the night shift – when he was woken [...]
It’s actually a matter of – “whats the point?” – something so simple, yet possibly the cause of a huge accident, death and families hurt.
02:11AM – returning home driving down Blaauwberg road I spot a red car (GP license plate) oddly parked half in the middle of the left lane just past PG Autoglass in [...]
Five armed men stole R155 000 from a construction company that was about to pay out monthly wages to its workers on Friday, and fired shots at staff who chased them.
“It was just after 1pm. Most of us Muslims were at mosque but when we got back I was told about the robbery and shooting,” [...]
“Santa Claus” paedophile James McNeil has chosen to stay in Pollsmoor Prison, rather than be released on parole, because he’s not happy with his parole conditions.Described by a social worker in court in 2003 as a paedophile who couldn’t be rehabilitated, McNeil was due to be released this week under strict parole conditions.
His lawyers were [...]