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A police captain is facing charges of corruption, extortion and intimidation for allegedly demanding payments from a spaza shop owner to ensure his business operated "without interference" in Cape Town.
Van Riebeeck Hall was packed to the brim last Thursday evening (9 November) when Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis and representatives of all City of Cape Town directorates were in town.
Four people, two of them city officials, will appear in court soon for alleged housing development fraud of R900,000 at Mfuleni in Cape Town.
How former foes – struggle cadres and the apartheid security apparatus – pulled together to break the Pagad death squads that emerged in the late 1990s.
The City claims to have simplified the registration process for Cape Town’s informal traders, but they face a struggle to operate legally.