Tag: Bonteheuwel

Two more Cape children raped

rapist2Police are hunting for the man who raped an 11-year-old boy in a derelict building in Bonteheuwel.

This horrific attack took place little more than a week after the violent attack on a 9-year-old Delft girl who was raped, doused in petrol and set alight.

In Bonteheuwel, on Sunday at about 7.45pm, the boy was walking along Bonteheuwel Avenue, when a man called him, said police spokesman Captain FC van Wyk.

The man led the boy into a derelict building which had been gutted in a fire. Here, the man, apparently known to the people in the area as “Franky”, raped the boy.

Police have also issued an identikit of a suspect in another Delft child rape which occurred earlier this month – on January 12 a 6-year-old girl was raped in a communal toilet.

Police said the rapist is between the ages of 45 and 50. He is 1.65m tall and has a dark complexion.

Delft police have also issued an identikit of a suspect in a rape that occurred in August last year. In that incident, a 24-year-old woman was forced at knife point into the bushes at the R300 and N2 intersection, and raped.

Reacting to these latest reports of child rape, MEC of Social Development Albert Fritz said that he was “outraged”.

 

‘Apartheid province in W. Cape’, says ANC’s Jesse Duarte

Jessie Duarte
Jessie Duarte

The ANC’s Jessie Duarte has torn into the DA-run Western Cape and City of Cape Town, expressing her disgust at how she says “apartheid has seeped back, very quietly and comfortably, into the province”.

“What apartheid left, the DA has just taken forward… we must admit as a nation that this is an apartheid-run province…” Duarte, the ANC’s deputy secretary-general, said during a visit to Bonteheuwel on Friday.

In recent weeks, the ANC has wheeled out the big guns, including President Jacob Zuma, in its struggle to take control of the Western Cape in next year’s elections. And after her visit which also included stops last week in the southern Cape and West Coast, Duarte scored the Western Cape government a zero for service delivery to the poor.

“I’ve been to Fish Hoek, where the DA made promises they did not keep. The people do not have water there, there’s an open drain running through the area, but there’s more concern about the wetlands than there is concern for the people,” Duarte said.

She accused the provincial government of “really not doing anything here for black people; let me be blunt, because I’ve not seen white people in this city live in these conditions.

“What Helen Zille is telling us is that there’s two South Africas, one is hers for rich people, and they could also include rich black people, but not for the poor,” Duarte said. -Weekend Argus