Cape Town – Cape Town Metro Police officers opened fire during a dramatic vehicle stop in Sea Point on Wednesday morning after a confrontation with suspected abalone poachers escalated into a short high-speed chase that ended with five arrests. Dramatic video footage circulating on social media shows officers boxing in a vehicle outside the Point…
Bold as brass, a lone great white shark made a big splash off the coast of Cape Town on Wednesday, September 23, becoming the first of its species to be sighted and filmed in False Bay in nearly eight years. These sharks disappeared from False Bay, largely because of predation by killer whales with an…
Cape Town authorities will move around 60 baboons permanently to a fenced area, as an alternative to killing.
The baboons steal food, rotate in garbage and come close to people, which creates problems.
The plan to move the baboons to a fenced area meets strong resistance from animal protectors.
It is also deployed «baboonicre» garbage cans and fences are built.
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…
