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Pressure on church to mend its ways and root out corruption ahead of Apostles’ gathering Share Cape Town - Ahead of the Old Apostolic Church of Africa (OAC) annual conference this month, questions have been raised about the church's seriousness in rooting out alleged corruption and fraud and implementing transformation within its ranks. The church's Apostles attend a conference twice a year, usually in March and September, where a particular theme and teaching is decided on and channelled to the officers and members. Temporal matters are also discussed at the conference and resolutions m...

Samantha Lee-Jacobs Leader of the Cape Flats Safety Forum, Abie Isaacs, has labelled this "urban terror". Isaacs has called for the deployment of more officers to Mitchells Plain. "Urban terror" were the words a crime activist used to describe the gun violence which claimed the lives of six people in three days on the streets of Mitchells Plain. "I have been saying this for the past two, three years. There is urban terror in Mitchells Plain and on the Cape Flats and it seems there is no will to deal with this," said Abie Isaacs, the former chairperson of the Mitchells Plain Community Police F...

iStock A 15-year-old girl from Lotus River, Cape Town, was shot and killed while sitting outside a house on Friday night. One person was arrested and charged with murder. The local CPF says her family had been left shattered by their loss. The killing of a teenage girl in Lotus River, Cape Town, has left her family shattered and distraught, the local Community Policing Forum (CPF) said on Saturday.  The 15-year-old girl was sitting in front of a house with a group of other youngsters on Friday evening when armed men approached them and started shooting, Grassy Park CPF chairperson Phillip Ba...

Gallo Images/Die Burger/Jaco Marais A teenaged boy has been shot dead and three others have been wounded in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town. In another incident, the body of an 18-year-old has been found in the same area. Community Safety MEC Albert Fritz says children should not grow up in fear of being shot. A 13-year-old boy was killed and three teenagers were injured in a shooting in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, on Thursday night. Police are investigating the circumstances of the shooting, Colonel Andrè Traut said. "According to reports, the occupants of a white vehicle opened fire at the vict...

WATCH: Two teens shot dead, three wounded in Mitchells Plain drive-by shooting By Mandilakhe Tshwete Share Cape Town – Five teenagers were shot in a drive-by in Beacon Valley, Mitchells Plain, on Thursday night. Police have confirmed the deaths of two of the victims, aged 13, and 18 years old, while three others, aged 14, 16 and 18, were wounded. Three of the boys were standing on the corner of Cadillac and Riley streets when they came under attack just before 9pm. Video: Ayanda Ndamane / African News Agency (ANA) Moments later the other two were shot on the corner of Cadillac and Austin st...