Velani Ludidi

Joel Booysen, the son of alleged Sexy Boys gang leader Jerome “Donkie” Booysen, has dismissed rumours claiming he was the victim of the deadly shooting at a Table View restaurant earlier this week.

Outgoing Western Cape police commissioner Thembisile Patekile has delivered his final quarterly crime statistics briefing ahead of his retirement next month after more than 40 years in policing.

Livestock roaming on police premises, only two cellphones shared across an entire unit, and ballistic shields that can reportedly be bent by hand are among the alarming findings uncovered during an oversight visit to the Tactical Response Team (TRT) unit in Faure, Cape Town.

Cape Town footballer Leo Thethani says he lost nearly R1 million meant to secure an apartment after allegedly trusting former footballer-turned-agent Jerome McCarthy with the purchase.

As residents gathered beneath flickering candlelight along Marine Drive on Sunday evening to honour a man gunned down in Table View, Cape Town, last week, questions remained about the motive for the daylight killing.

Although she flashed across South Africans’ TV screens many times before, reality TV personality Kgalalelo Loveline Abinokhauno (Moloko) shied away from cameras on Monday when she appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court to be sentenced for fraud, alongside three others.

Four men were shot dead, and two were critically wounded in a suspected taxi-related attack at an informal rank in Philippi, Cape Town, on Tuesday morning.

A 17-year-old boy, who admitted targeting a 79-year-old woman because she lived alone on her Little Karoo farm, has been sentenced to an effective 25 years’ direct imprisonment for her murder, rape, and robbery.

The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has dismissed an urgent application by Working on Fire to block the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment from handing a multibillion-rand national wildfire management contract to the Tefla Group.

A Khayelitsha mother and son are among seven people accused of kidnapping a Cape Town businessman, who was allegedly tortured and forced to part with nearly R500 000, from his Summer Greens home.