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FILE: The City of Cape Town's multi-disciplinary winter task team said it would be on high alert should any localised flooding take place. Picture: 123rf.com

Nyanga

Hundreds of homes flooded in parts of WC as heavy rains continue

By Eyewitness News

Residents of Langa, in Cape Town, are already feeling the devastating effects caused by the heavy rains.

  • Three Golden Arrow busses have been torched in the Nyanga and Kraaifontein areas on 24 March 2022. Picture: Supplied.

    CoCT: Recent unrest in Nyanga linked to taxi industry has led to damages of R4m+

    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.

    135 days ago
  • Three Golden Arrow busses have been torched in the Nyanga and Kraaifontein areas on 24 March 2022. Picture: Supplied.

    MEC Mitchell taking steps to declare Nyanga high-risk zone

    This follows violence that coincided with a march in Cape Town's CBD on Thursday and a disruptive slow-moving convoy on the highway.

    137 days ago
  • FILE: The ANC said the City of Cape Town had to be mindful of transportation and costs as the elderly, disabled and the unemployed used the services. Picture: EWN.

    WC ANC calls on City of CT to halt plans to close 9 clinics

    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.

    139 days ago
  • FILE: Police tape at a crime scene. Picture: Thomas Holder/Eyewitness News.

    Nyanga CPF to intensify efforts to further reduce murder rate in area

    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.

    169 days ago
  • The Western Cape Government’s EMS Rescue team responded to an incident on the corners of Borcherds Quarry on the ramp next to the N2, Nyanga, at the side of the bridge on Monday, 8 February.  Picture: Supplied

    A year after Nyanga sinkhole tragedy, families waiting on promised relocation

    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.

    170 days ago
  • Police van. Picture: Winnie Theletsane/EWN.

    Missing Nyanga boy (2) found dead

    Police said that the child was involved in a car crash on the R300 highway on Friday.

    230 days ago
  • FILE: Law enforcement officials at the City of Cape Town Metro Police Training Academy. Picture: Cindy Archillies/Eyewitness News.

    Over 200 additional metro cops assigned to CT crime hotspots

    The group completed their training last week and have since been deployed to Philippi, Gugulethu, Mitchells Plain, Nyanga and Delft among others.

    232 days ago
  • FILE: Police Minister Bheki Cele on 20 August 2021. Picture: SA Police Service/Twitter.

    Cele calls on Nyanga residents to help SAPS find drive-by shooters

    Three people were killed and two others wounded following a drive-by shooting in the area on Saturday.

    323 days ago
  • Picture: Pixabay

    Nyanga SAPS hunt gunmen involved in shooting that claimed 3 lives

    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.

    323 days ago
  • FILE: Police have bolstered security in the crime-ridden area following the brazen shooting. Picture: Cindy Archillies/Eyewitness News

    Police still searching for suspects in Nyanga triple murder

    The men were standing on a street corner when the occupants of a minibus taxi fired shots on Saturday.

    323 days ago
  • FILE: Police Minister Bheki Cele on 20 August 2021. Picture: SA Police Service/Twitter.

    Cele urges Nyanga residents to work with govt to fight GBV, femicide

    Residents also urged police management to deploy more resources to the area.

    325 days ago
  • FILE: A Metro EMS ambulance responds to a call out. Picture: Eyewitness News

    Two CT EMS paramedics robbed while on duty in Nyanga

    The women responded to a call-out in Browns Farm to assist an injured man, when they were robbed on Wednesday.

    349 days ago
  • FILE: Picture: @Golden-Arrow-Bus-Services/Facebook.com.

    Golden Arrow buses attacked in Gugulethu and Nyanga

    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.

    387 days ago
  • FILE: Police tape at a crime scene. Picture: Thomas Holder/Eyewitness News.

    Police continue to investigate 2 mass shootings in Cape Town

    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.

    403 days ago
  • FILE: Police tape at a crime scene. Picture: Thomas Holder/Eyewitness News.

    SAPS implement 72-hour activation plan following Nyanga triple murder

    Three men were shot and killed in the Vlei informal settlement on Saturday.

    407 days ago
  • A vehicle burns in Nyanga after being set alight on 2 June 2021. Picture: JP Smith

    Santaco has distanced itself from violence in Nyanga, says WC Transport MEC

    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.

    432 days ago
  • A vehicle burns in Nyanga after being set alight on 2 June 2021. Picture: JP Smith

    WC Transport Dept to meet taxi leaders following violence in Nyanga

    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.

    433 days ago
  • Western Cape Transport MEC Daylin Mitchell. Picture: Supplied.

    MEC Mitchell meets with Santaco in a bid to end unrest in Nyanga

    On Wednesday morning, private and government vehicles were set alight and two Golden Arrow buses were stoned.

    433 days ago
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