The arrest of alleged Cape Town gang leader Nafiz Modack and several other high profile figures believed to be central to the City’s underworld has resonated strongly with Police Minister Bheki Cele, whose appearance at the Cape Town Magistrates’ Court on Monday demonstrated a continued interest in efforts to root out sinister crimes connected to the group.
Not for the first time in recent months, Cele has stamped his presence on cases relating to extortion, kidnapping, and attempted murder in Cape Town, all of which have been levelled against Modack and his co-accused on Monday.
Modack charged with host of gang-related crimes
Cape cop arrested for corruption after allegedly feeding info to Modack
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Cape Town â While alleged underworld boss Nafiz Modack and three others will be appearing today in the Cape Town Magistrateâs Court, the Hawks announced on Monday that a police officer was arrested for allegedly feeding info to Modack.
Hawks spokesperson Katlego Mogale said that a 39-year-old police member attached to the tactical response team was arrested during the weekend on âsuspicion of proliferation of information to unsavoury characters operating in the Western Cape underworldâ.
âIt is reported that the suspect was arrested during an intelligence driven operation conducted by the national task team investigating gang-related activities, national intervention unit and tactical response team,â Mogale said.
Handcuffs laying on top of fingerprint chart.
A Cape Town man was arrested after he was allegedly caught with of 200 mandrax tablets in Parklands on Thursday.
He was pulled over by police after ignoring a stop sign.
Police further alleged the suspect offered them a bribe after they found the mandrax tablets.
A 38-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly bribing police officers who caught him with 200 mandrax tablets in his possession.
According to police, shortly before 19:00 on Thursday, police officers noticed a vehicle ignoring a stop sign near Parklands Main Road in Cape Town.
Police then followed the driver and instructed him to pull over.
Thursday 29 April 2021 - 5:08am
Fire-fighting teams work to keep the fire from crossing Philip Kgosana Drive, one of the main arterial roads into the city centre, threatening the suburb of Walmer Estate, after a forest fire burns out of control on the foothills of Table Mountain in Cape Town on April 19, 2021.
Rodger Bosch / AFP
CAPE TOWN - The charge of arson against a foreign national, arrested in connection with the Cape Town fires last week, has been dropped.
Instead, he is now facing a lesser charge of contravening the National Environmental Management Act for living in the Table Mountain National Park.