City of Cape Town explains new water tariffs

Reduced revenue and the increased cost of water supply infrastructure mean that the City has to raise water tariffs. This was the reasoning provided...
AGU recover drugs worth R75k, Goodwood

AGU recover drugs worth R75k, Goodwood

In the fight against drugs, police members continue with their mandate to root out the illegal trade thereof in the Western Cape. Police members attached...

Cape Town’s dam levels higher than this time last year

In the last couple of weeks the amount of water in the dams supplying Cape Town has overtaken the 2017 levels. The City of Cape...
Attack on Traffic Officer results in 40 years imprisonment, George

Attack on Traffic Officer results in 40 years imprisonment, George

The police management of the Western Cape commended investigators attached to the Provincial Organised Crime Investigations responsible for taxi violence related cases with the...
Metrorail stolen property and drugs recovered, Woodstock. Photo: SAPS

Metrorail stolen property and drugs recovered, Woodstock

During the early hours of this morning, 7 June 2018, SAPS and other law enforcement agencies conducted a search operation at an informal settlement...
Violent rapist handed 2 life sentences, Beaufort West

Violent rapist handed 2 life sentences, Beaufort West

The Provincial Commissioner of the Western Cape, Lieutenant General Thembisile Patekile has welcomed the two life sentences imposed by the Beaufort West Regional Court...
Murderers and drug dealers nabbed, Table View

Murderers and drug dealers nabbed, Table View

During a search for two murder suspects in Site 5, Dornbach informal settlement, Table View, on Tuesday 19 June 2018 at 22:00, Table View...
The vigilance of members attached to Operation Restore continue to reap rewards

The vigilance of members attached to Operation Restore continue to reap...

WESTERN CAPE - On 17 August 2023 at about 21:00, members attached to Operation Restore conducted an intelligence driven operation and responded to information from a concerned member of the community indicating that dagga being sold at a premises in Samson Crescent, Belhar. The members operationalised the information and approached the identified premises where they [...]

Children ‘too scared to play outside’ in Ocean View

The regular echoes of gunshots in the Ocean View community has left residents scared to leave their homes and children “too scared to play...
Advocate arrested for corruption

Advocate arrested for corruption, Bellville

The Bellville based Serious Corruption Investigation team have this morning, 08 September 2023 arrested a 35-year-old Phuti Given Mothemane who is an advocate for acts of corruption. It is alleged that on the 23 September 2022, Advocate Mothemane approached a member of National Prosecuting Authority and offered R50 000.00 (fifty thousand rand) to file representations [...]
Counterfeit money and drugs recovered, Grassy Park

Counterfeit money and drugs recovered, Grassy Park

On Wednesday 18 July 2018, at about 16:40 members stationed at Grassy Park Crime Prevention unit were busy with patrols in Klip Road, Grassy...
Six suspects are due to appear in court on charges of possession of unlicensed and prohibited firearms and ammunition

Six suspects are due to appear in court on charges of...

The response of police members in the Western Cape resulted in the arrest of six suspects who were found in possession of unlicensed an prohibited firearms and ammunition in isolated incidents on Wednesday 27 September 2023. The Boland K9 police members pursued information about firearms in the early hours Wednesday 27 September 2023. Based on [...]