Former Cape Town athlete Bulelwa Mtshagi died after being shot seven times at her Crossroads home, where her nephew’s friend ...

Police are searching for at least three gunmen who killed eight people inside a shebeen in Marikana informal settlement in ...

Cape Town - The City is planning to give its much-maligned Shotspotter a second go after the gunshot detection system allegedly failed to prevent shootings and save lives in the gang-ridden areas of ...

Some areas have improved, but the overall picture is grim Police figures for October to December 2025 are not yet available, but in the first nine months of the year, 2,104 murders were reported to ...

Sidelined Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has repeatedly cited extreme violence in Cape Town’s apartheid dumping grounds – the Cape Flats – as one of the reasons he ordered a police team’s disbandment.

Drive-by shootings, turf war, high-speed chases and murder. This is what Cape Flats residents experienced in the past week. Now Western Cape law enforcement agencies have put more boots on the ground.