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Five suspects involved in the shooting of a security officer in KwaMashu on Monday are still at large. File photo.Image: 123RF/Roger Lamkin

Boy, 3, wounded in crossfire at his home in Port Elizabeth

Eastern Cape police have arrested a man who allegedly shot a three-year-old boy in Helenvale in Port Elizabeth. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu said on Wednesday morning that the boy was with his father in their yard when he…

The Cape Town Magistrate’s Court will rule on Craig Smith’s bail application on Monday.Image: Google Maps

Police affidavit links top immigration lawyer Craig Smith to ‘underworld’

Prominent Cape Town immigration lawyer Craig Smith – who is facing more than 1,000 charges for allegedly duping home affairs with bogus documents – has been linked by police in an affidavit to characters in the criminal underworld. The…

MSC Musica at anchor off Mouille Point on Thursday night. Gale-force winds have prevented the giant cruise ship from docking in Cape Town harbour.Image: Twitter/Sean Hough

Cruise ship passengers will be marooned until 2am on Saturday

Passengers stranded since Thursday aboard a cruise ship unable to dock in Cape Town because of a southeasterly gale will only be able to come ashore early on Saturday. City of Cape Town traffic spokesperson Richard Coleman said on Friday…

A Japanese classroom with desk and tables and blakckboard is taken from low angle.

Teach youth better conflict resolution skills: MP as schoolchild is killed

The fatal stabbing of an Eastern Cape pupil at the hands of a teenager at school has prompted a call for improved conflict resolution skills in South Africa. The death of the 14-year-old Grade 7 pupil from a Peddie primary school on…

One land occupier on a City of Cape Town sportsfield has started building a double-storey shack.Image: Peter Luhanga

Cape sportsfield now a new informal settlement

Backyard dwellers in Dunoon near Milnerton‚ who earlier this year occupied a municipal sportsfield‚ have survived continual demolitions of their shacks and have kept rebuilding. In response to the demolitions there were violent protests.…