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Courtesy BizNews JP Smith has spent years being told his city is one of the world’s most violent. He didn’t dispute it. He explained why. Nearly every gun his officers pulled off the street came back to bite them: nineteen times out of twenty, the man caught red-handed walked free, because Cape Town cannot investigate…

CAPE TOWN – 15 September 2026 A new investigation by political commentator Willem Petzer, essayist Rob Duigan, and economist Dr Adi Schlebusch has raised alarm over the growing fiscal burden on Cape Town’s middle-class households, describing the city’s revenue model as a “ticking time bomb” heading into the 2026 local elections. The trio’s findings come…