It took the Milnerton Fire Department (along with a vehicle from Melkbos if I’m not mistaken) a great deal of time to get to the situation however, this is not their fault! Could somebody please explain to me why an area as large as Sunningdale, Parklands, Table View and Bloubergstrand has to rely on a fire department over 8km away with the TomTom web site claiming the quickest possible route as 13minutes away. Double this at a minimum for a fire truck excluding any preparations! Perhaps it’ll take some or other MP’s place to burn down in the area before an additional fire station is even thought of.

Recently Dolphin Beach hotel’s Blowfish Restaurant also had a fire.

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 gave her the assurance that there would be no violence.

Zille was to meet with the NTA today (Wednesday) to discuss their concerns after an earlier meeting scheduled for 28 Janaury had been cancelled at the last minute by the taxi alliance.

Meanwhile the Milnerton police will remain on red alert, monitoring the situation carefully, says spokesperson Insp. Daphne Dell.

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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 the False Bay Ecology Park.

While they may eat what the dogs bring down, the purpose of the hunt is not to get meat for the pot, but to rake in money from betting on the hunt.

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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 into their home and had simply shot him dead. Their loot: a cheap trinket ripped off Mrs Bezuidenhout’s neck, and a cellphone. The last thing he said to his wife was : ‘What are those two men doing here’? before he was gunned down.

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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 by his dog’s barking.

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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 the direction of the beachfront. The headlights are on, the left backdoor is open. I decide to go just past the incline in the road and make a u-turn and go back down to see whats going on. This time, the lights are off. I pull over and dial Table View police.

The person assisting me wants a whole bunch of details, as apposed to just informing somebody and getting them to come around. Eventually I stop her from blabbering about all useless stuff and tell her to get someone there while I wait on the line to hear the call go out over the radio.

After the call has gone out, I’m told, “they actually just drove past and it appeared that the vehicle was dropping somebody off” – so this was already count 1 of cops seen these people and the vehicle half in the road but, as per usual, “lets just ignore it”

While I wait I watch. All 4 people (driver included) are outside the car, dancing at my lights shining on their car, amstels in their hands and constantly opening the boot of the car, walking around etc. This is just the perfect recipe for someone driving down the road and smashing right into them or, knocking one of the drunkets over.

After a few minutes 2 officers arrive in a white Mazda midge with no license place or blue lights, just some faded hazards blinking away. Amstels in all their hands, car in the middle of the road, who knows what was said but 3 of them leave the car and walk towards one of the complexes that they were parked next to, the cops get back in their car and pull away followed by the red vehicle that drives slightly forward and turns into the next drive way. Already over the hill, I approach the cops and I’m asked to pull over. We stop outside the plumbing place (tap something I think)

I ask, “what on earth was going on there, you there for 2 minutes and just leave, they parked half in the road, they all drinking and you just leave them?” – “Yes sir, I could smell the drivers breathe and he wasn’t drinking” – YEAH RIGHT?! “are you trying to tell us how to do our job?” “where you there, why didn’t you get out of your car and come look?” (yes, unarmed and not aware of the situation I should just approach and play supervisor?) – “sir, we can only act after a warning has been issued” – my immediate reply to that was, “oh, so the first time you drove past was not a good enough sign to see SOMETHING is wrong?!” At this point, the snotty cop kept quiet and his assistant started replying with even more silly comments to quickly get out of this one. – anyways, I’ll leave you to make up your own mind. I’ve MANY a time reported things in this area, and have a story to tell on each and every single outcome, this time, I’ll start writing about it each and every time.

Clearly, I wasted my time and I also said this to these two cops. The reply, “no sir, you did not and we appreciate you reporting it” followed by them just getting back into their car and driving away. – To those two cops, Thanks for wasting MY time and leaving a total drunket still on the road” – Perhaps you would have done something about it should someone you know have smashed into the car, and been badly hurt – Death before Prevention – right? “Crime Prevention se gat”

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,” said Salie Brown, 54, a foreman at Pinelands Development Company in Sunningdale, Table View.

“When the salaries were about to be paid out, guns were pointed at the guy in charge. The workers tried to apprehend the robbers but they got away and fired some shots,” he said.

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“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 reluctant to divulge details, but it is believed one of the conditions McNeil found unpalatable was a one-year internet ban.

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