The body was found on Strand Street towards High-Level Road, above the squatter camp, on Monday at bout 5PM.
A sting operation in Khayelitsha erupted in violence, leaving eight suspects dead and five others in custody, as police thwarted a planned cash-in-transit robbery.
A Cape Town Uber driver has been arrested after a 28-year-old woman sustained injuries when he tried to rob and kidnap her on a trip home.
The victim and his colleague were about to deposit their wads of cash at a bank in the mall.
“This is a horrific incident, and shows the little regard criminals have for life,” said Police Oversight and Community Safety MEC Reagen Allen.
The Cape Town community group, Friends of Table Mountain, has launched a petition calling for immediate action to be taken to stop the escalating crime around the slopes of Table Mointain, Lion’s Head, and Signal Hill.
“Safety is a top priority for the City, with over 4,000 uniformed enforcement and emergency personnel available in shifts as part of the City’s largest ever safety deployment over a festive season.”
Los Angeles couple Jason and Kate Zoladz were en route to Cape Town International Airport on Tuesday, 24 October, when Google Maps made them take a turn for the worst.
One of the witnesses in the trial testified that he and his wife had just started walking their dog along the path on that fateful day when they came upon three men acting “erratically”.
A tourist’s lovely walk through the colourful streets of the Bo-Kaap turned into a traumatic experience when a robber came up from behind to steal her phone.
A man was shot and killed at a restaurant in Rondebosch shortly after a woman was rescued from an attempted kidnapping situation.
In January this year, farm worker Jeremy Sias was found not guilty of murdering Cremer, shocking everyone involved in the case.
Last week Thursday, police arrested two suspects at two Cape Town hotels while investigating a hostage situation.
An investigation was launched for a missing lawyer after the detectives noted the “strange circumstances surrounding this incident”.
An incident unfolded in Durbanville on Tuesday where a gun-wielding Cape Town taxi driver allegedly smashed the car windows of a motorist.
Over the past week, there has been a spate of deaths linked to “gang violence, syndicates and organised crime”.
With the COVID-19-induced restrictions a thing of the past, Cape Town’s tourism industry has a familiar foe to battle – crime.
News24’s CrimeCheck app has been designed to help South Africans “understand the risks of becoming a victim in a country where crime levels are among the highest in the world”.
Three people died on the scene, while the fourth was rushed to hospital where they succumbed to their injuries.
Cape Town mother Alicia Lamprecht dealt with any parent’s worst nightmare this morning when her seven-month-old son was taken in a hijacking.
Depending on how you look at the results of Numbeo’s 2020 crime index, there is either bad news or good news.
We finally found the source of a story going around about one very lucky victim of crime, and he described to us exactly what happened.
The tourists are coming, and they’re coming in hot. It seems like some of those visitors are on the receiving end of rather over the top advice.
Jealousy can make you crazy. And ex-es can be infuriating. The man who was killed yesterday afternoon outside St George’s Grammar in Mowbray was shot by the ex-husband of the woman he was engaged to. While there’s still uncertainty around why he resorted to pulling out a gun, it’s not hard to surmise there was no love lost between the fiance and the former husband.