A coalition of grassroots activists have launched a daily picket campaign outside Parliament, to protest against events unfolding in Gaza.
The campaign is organised by the Action Forum in Support of Palestine, based in Cape Town, which has also run … Read the rest
A Black South African Navy chef has taken a Cape Town police officer to the Equality Court following a racial altercation, The Times reported on Wednesday.
Phila Mnyanda claimed Sergeant Zelda Bussey, who arrested him for suspected drunk driving in … Read the rest
Residents of Mitchells Plain say they are fed up with the drug trade, gang rivalry and complicit cops.
Cape Town in the Western Cape has become a major crime hub.
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) said they will take … Read the rest
Erich Poll
Two Cape Town coloured men have been convicted for murdering their German employer, then throwing his body down the mountainside.
Erich Poll, 46, was strangled at his business premises in Woodstock, not far from the Old Biscuit Mill, … Read the rest
A fellow angler was shot dead in front of a friend while coming to his rescue during a horrific attempted robbery on Strandfontein beach.
Alvin Allies, from Northpine, was killed instantly after being hit by a bullet in the pancreas on Sunday … Read the rest
A Grade R girl, 5, is alleged to have been raped by three Grade 2 boys on the grounds of a Mitchells Plain school.
It happened on March 4, but the school failed to notify the girl’s parents. Only during … Read the rest
by Dan Roodt dan[at]praag.org
Few outsiders understand the ethnic dynamics of South Africa. Foreign journalists come here and imagine that we are some kind of remake of the USA, transposing American ethnic categories (and Hollywood movies) onto us. Of course, … Read the rest
In another of South Africa’s ongoing spate of sadistic crimes committed by blacks and mixed-race coloureds, a Cape Town man no longer wishes to apply for bail, fearing reprisals from the public and even fellow criminals. He is being accused … Read the rest
Emeritus archbishop and virulent critic of white South Africa, Desmond Tutu had his home broken into while he was away speaking at Nelson Mandela’s memorial.
An aide confirmed on Wednesday that Tutu was burgled on Tuesday night.
“We are not … Read the rest
Dirk Smit
A Coloured DA councillor in the City of Cape Town told a black security guard to go back to a black province. He has been found guilty of racism by a city disciplinary committee and now faces expulsion … Read the rest
Cape Town
The City of Cape Town obtained a court interdict preventing the city’s informal settlements’ organisation from holding a march, said mayor Patricia de Lille.
The march was scheduled to take place on Friday.
She said the order was … Read the rest
BRICS countries are close to completing a brand new Internet backbone that would bypass the United States entirely and thereby protect both governments and citizens from NSA spying.
In light of revelations that the National Security Agency hacked German Chancellor … Read the rest
A 17-year-old boy was expected to appear in the Parow Magistrate’s Court on Monday, in connection with a possible satanic murder.
Western Cape police said the teenager was arrested in Ravensmead, Cape Town on Saturday after a beheaded body was … Read the rest
A Cape Town teacher accused of raping a 12-year-old pupil appeared in the Blue Downs Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, said Western Cape police.
The matter was postponed to October 24. He remained in custody, said Captain Frederick van Wyk.
The … Read the rest