Nyanga
Hundreds of homes flooded in parts of WC as heavy rains continue
Residents of Langa, in Cape Town, are already feeling the devastating effects caused by the heavy rains.
Thursday’s protest march to the Office of the Western Cape Premier was led by members of Cape Town’s biggest taxi associations, Cata and Codeta.
This follows violence that coincided with a march in Cape Town's CBD on Thursday and a disruptive slow-moving convoy on the highway.
The party said the closure of nine clinics in Nyanga, Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain would have a negative impact on communities living in these areas.
Over the past few years, Nyanga has been considered the murder capital of South Africa. But in the last quarter of 2021 three-month period it recorded 44 murders, down from 58 in the previous quarter.
Community leader Nomampandomise Mkhafu said that the families were trying to move on but they simply could not. She said that they were told that they would be relocated by officials and ministers but after the funerals, there was complete silence from government.
Police said that the child was involved in a car crash on the R300 highway on Friday.
The group completed their training last week and have since been deployed to Philippi, Gugulethu, Mitchells Plain, Nyanga and Delft among others.
Three people were killed and two others wounded following a drive-by shooting in the area on Saturday.
Four men were standing on a street corner when the occupants of a minibus taxi fired shots. Three of them died and another was wounded while a fifth victim, a woman, was hit by a stray bullet.
The men were standing on a street corner when the occupants of a minibus taxi fired shots on Saturday.
Residents also urged police management to deploy more resources to the area.
The women responded to a call-out in Browns Farm to assist an injured man, when they were robbed on Wednesday.
On Friday a Golden Arrow bus was travelling along Govan Mbeki Drive near Philippi when two gunmen posing as passengers robbed the driver and fled with cash.
Last weekend three men were gunned down in Nyanga, while a few days prior nine people were shot outside a house in Gugulethu and eight of them died.
Three men were shot and killed in the Vlei informal settlement on Saturday.
Private and municipal vehicles were torched, and 75 Golden Arrow buses were stoned since Friday - following the impounding of taxis. Transport MEC Daylin Mitchell said taxi industry leaders had joined in condemning the violence.
On Wednesday, seven vehicles were torched, two belonging to the City of Cape Town, along with five private vehicles. Two Golden Arrow buses were also stoned. Protest action started last week following an operation where a number of taxis were impounded.
On Wednesday morning, private and government vehicles were set alight and two Golden Arrow buses were stoned.