April, 2026
Spanwerk help om misdaad te oorwin
Gewapende man loop rieme styf
MISDAADTONEEL: Elsiesrivier, Kaapstad: As die gemeenskap saam met die polisie werk, kan misdaad oorwin word.
Dit is weer op 21 April 2026 bewys toe goeie samewerking tussen die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens (SAPD) en die gemeenskap tot die arrestasie van ‘n 35-jarige gewapende verdagte gelei het.
Op dié dag, omstreeks 08:30, het Maitland se blitspatrollie ‘n klagte van ‘n skietery in Avonwood, Elsiesrivier ontvang.
Die polisie het vinnig reageer en mense in die gemeenskap het aan hulle uitgewys in watter rigting die verdagte gehardloop het. Die man is kort daarna aangekeer en ‘n 9mm Taurus-pistool met vyf rondtes ammunisie is in sy besit gevind.
Hy is by die Elsiesrivier-polisiestasie aangehou vir die onwettige besit van ‘n vuurwapen en ammunisie, en sal in die Goodwood-landdroshof verskyn sodra hy aangekla is.
Die polisie het ‘n beroep op die publiek gedoen om enige kriminele aktiwiteite op die MySAPS app aan te meld of Crime Stop te skakel by 08600 10111.
Community assist police to catch armed man
Teamwork pays off in battle against crime
CRIME SCENE: Elsies River, Cape Town: Excellent teamwork between the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the community led to the swift arrest of a 35-year-old armed suspect.
On Tuesday, 21 April 2026 at about 08:30 the Maitland Flying Squad received a complaint of a shooting in progress in Avonwood, Elsies River.
They responded quickly and when they arrived in the area, members of the community pointed them in the direction the suspect ran. The suspect was apprehended shortly thereafter and a 9mm Taurus pistol with five rounds of ammunition was found in his possession.
He was detained at the Elsies River police station for the illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition, and will appear in the Goodwood Magistrates’ Court once charged.
The police have appealed to the public to report any criminal activities on the MySAPS app anonymously or call Crime Stop on 08600 10111.
Man vas oor 46000 Mandrax pille
Polisie maak groot dwelm vonds
MISDAADTONEEL: Delft, Kaapstad: ‘N GATSLAG teen die verspreiding van dwelms in die Wes-Kaap.
Só beskryf die Suid-Afrikaanse polisiediens (SAPD) sy jongste sukses in die geveg teen dwelmhandel in die provinsie.
Lede van Operasie Prosper was Maandag 20 April 2026 besig met stop-en-deursoek-operasies in N2 Gateway, Delft toe hulle ‘n silwer Honda Civic-voertuig en sy insittende deursoek het.
In die voertuig het hulle tien mandrax-tablette en ‘n onbekende bedrag kontant gevind, vermoedelik die opbrengs van misdaad. Verdere ondersoek het hulle na ‘n bergingsfasiliteit in Stikland, Bellville, gelei.
Hier het die lede 46 pakke, met 1000 mandrax-tablette elk, gevind. Die totale straatwaarde van die dwelms word geraam op R2,76-miljoen. ‘n 45-jarige man is gearresteer op ‘n aanklag van handel in dwelms en sal na verwagting in die Bellville-landdroshof verskyn.
46000 Mandrax tablets found in storage
Blow for drug dealing
CRIME SCENE: Delft, Cape Town: DRUG dealing in the Western Cape were dealt with a major blow when police confiscated Mandrax tablets worth more than R2,7-million on Monday 20 April 2026.
Members of Operation Prosper were busy with stop and search operations in N2 Gateway, Delft. They searched a silver Honda Civic vehicle and its occupant. In the vehicle they found ten mandrax tablets and an undisclosed amount of cash, believed to be the proceeds of crime.
Further investigation led them to a storage facility in Stikland, Bellville. At the facility the members found 46 packs containing 1000 mandrax tablets each with an estimated street value of R2,76-million.
A 45-year-old man was arrested for dealing In drugs and is set to appear in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court.
'Operasies teiken nie die regte mense nie'
Geen einde aan moorde op Kaapse Vlakte
Daar is steeds geen einde in sig aan die moorde op die Kaapse Vlakte nie.
Dis ten spyte van die Suid-Afrikaanse Naionale Weermag wat in die gebied ontplooi is om bende-geweld te help beveg.
Volgens Ian Cameron, voorsitter van die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee van polisie, het bende-geweld en geweld gekoppel aan afpersing op die Kaapse Vlakte tussen 13 en 19 April 2026 op krisisvlakke gebly.
Gedurende dié tydperk was daar 49 moorde en 32 pogings tot moord gepleeg. Die vorige week is 48 moorde en 35 pogings tot moord aangeteken.
“Dit is almal lewens wat beëindig is deur opsetlike gewelddadige aksies. Gesinne word verpletter en gemeenskappe word gedwing om week na week dieselfde trauma te beleef,” het Cameron in ‘n Facebook-plasing gesê.
“Nege-en-veertig moorde beteken 49 huise waarna iemand nie terug sal kom nie. Dit beteken 49 gesinne wat daardie oproep ontvang, wag by ‘n hospitaal, ‘n lykshuis of ‘n polisiestasie.
“Dit beteken kinders wat na leë stoele staar, ouers wat moeilike vrae moet beantwoord, en gemeenskappe wat die menslike koste moet dra as gevolg van ‘n oneffektiewe reaksie deur die staat.
“Toe ek Ottery verlede week besoek het, het dit gevoel soos ‘n oorlog sone. Dis die realiteit wat die inowners in die gesig staar, die geklap van skote wat deel geword het van hulle daaglikse lewe, terwyl hulle die volste reg tot veiligheid het,” het Cameron gesê.
Die Demokratiese Alliansie LP het ook Operasie Prosper (die ontplooiing van die weermag om die polisie te help om bende geweld op die Kaapse Vlakte) gekritiseer te beveg.
“Die kritiek is nie op soldate op die grond gemik nie. Dit is kritiek op die regering se so-so ingryping. Die SAPD-intelligensie bly ‘n ernstige probleem.
“Die operasies is steeds te reaktief en teiken geensins die bende strukture wat vuurwapens rondskuif, moorde organiseer, gebiede beheer en wins maak uit afpersing en dwelms nie.
“As dit werklik intelligensiegedrewe operaies was wat tot vervolgings gelei het, sou gemeenskappe betekenisvolle ontwrigting van bende- en afpersingsnetwerke sien. Dit is nie wat hierdie syfers weerspieël nie.”
Hy het ‘n beroep daarop gedoen dat polisiëringsmagte, veral vir bendegeweld, uitgebrei word om plaaslike em povinsiale polisie magte in te sluit.
“’n Stad wat hierdie vlak van georganiseerde geweld in die gesig staar, kan nie vasgevang bly in ‘n gesentraliseerde polisiëringsmodel wat dieselfde mense aanhou teleurstel nie.”
49 killed in one week
No end in sight for Cape Flats murders
THE Cape Flats continue to bleed under the relentless onslaught of gangsters and extortionists.
According to Ian Cameron, the Chairperson of parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Police, gang and extortion related violence across the Cape Flats remained at crisis levels between 13 and 19 April 2026.
During this period there were 49 murders and 32 attempted murders. The previous week recorded 48 murders and 35 attempted murders.
“These lives were ended by intentional acts of violence. Families are shattered and communities forced to live through the same terror week after week,” said Cameron in a Facebook post this week.
“Forty-nine murders mean 49 homes where someone is not coming back. It means 49 families receiving that call, waiting at a hospital, a mortuary, or a police station. It means children staring at empty chairs, parents trying to answer impossible questions, and communities once again absorbing the human cost of a state response that still looks badly coordinated and painfully ineffective.
When I visited Ottery (on the Cape Flats) last week, the shooting was happening with warzone frequency. That is the reality for residents, the sound of gunfire becoming part of daily life in a community that has every right to expect safety,” said Cameron.
The Democratic Alliance Member of Parliament also criticized Operation Prosper (the deployment of the army to assist the police against gang violence on the Cape Flats).
“This is not criticism of soldiers on the ground. It is criticism of a haphazard intervention with too little measurable impact. SAPS intelligence remains a serious problem.
“We keep seeing operations that look reactive, scattered and shallow, instead of sustained, targeted action against the gang structures that move guns, organise killings, control territory and profit from extortion and narcotics.
“If this were truly intelligence driven and prosecution led, communities would be seeing stronger case building, better targeting, and meaningful disruption of gang and extortion networks. That is not what these numbers reflect.”
He said communities do not need more noise. They need illegal firearms removed, gang bosses targeted, extortion networks dismantled and solid cases prepared for court.
“Cape Town urgently needs expanded policing powers for gang related gun crime to competent local and provincial government, to act as a real force multiplier. A city facing this level of organised violence cannot remain trapped in a centralised policing model that keeps failing the same people.”
Man lei polisie na wapens by woonstelblok
Skietgoed se wegsteekplek gevind
MISDAADTONEEL: Ravensmead, Kaapstad: Die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens (SAPD) het ‘n vermeende bendeleier gearresteer en ‘n klein arsenaal, wat na bewering in sy besit gevind is, gekonfiskeer.
Lede van Operasie Lockdown Three het die 33-jarige verdagte in Ravensmead vasgetrek waar ‘n R5-geweer, ‘n haelgeweer, drie pistole, meer as 160 rondtes ammunisie en verskeie magasyne gekonfiskeer is.
Vier van die vyf onwettige vuurwapens se reeksnommers is afgevyl.
Die span het opgetree op grond van intelligensie oor die verdagte, wat na bewering die bende se vuurwapens beheer het, en na ‘n geïdentifiseerde adres gegaan. Die verdagte het hulle na ‘n woonstelblok in Ravensmead, waar die wapens en ammunisie versteek was, geneem.
Die verdagte sal binnekort in die Parow-landdroshof verskyn.
Suspected gang leader to appear in court soon
Cache of illegal firearms found
CRIME SCENE: Ravensmead, Cape Town: The South African Police Service (SAPS) have arrested a suspected gangster and confiscated a mini arsenal allegedly found in his possession.
Members of Operation Lockdown Three arrested the 33-year-old alleged gang leader in Ravensmead for the possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition. The team seized an R5 rifle, a shotgun, three pistols, more than 160 rounds of ammunition, and several magazines.
Four out of the five illegal firearms’ serial numbers were filed off. The team acted swiftly on intelligence on the suspect, who allegedly controlled the gang’s firearms, and proceeded to an identified address. From there the suspect led them to a cache of firearms and ammunition concealed near a block of flats in Ravensmead.
The suspect is expected to appear before the Parow Magistrate’s court soon.
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Man in pekel na bloues hom vastrek
Polisie sien rooi oor dwelms
MISDAADTONEEL: Lavender Hill, Kaapstad: ‘n Rooi sak vol dwelms het ‘n 42-jarige man in die pekel laat beland.
Steenberg polisie se misdaadvoorkomingseenheid het Donderdag 16 April 2026 roetine patrollies in Lavender Hill gedoen toe hulle ‘n man met die rooisak sien hardloop het.
Die verdagte is aangekeer en die polisie het hom deursoek waartydens hulle twee 20-gram pakkies tik, 160 sakkies tik, 150 mandrax tablette en 300 half-mandrax tablette in sy besit gevind het.
Die man is gearresteer vir die besit van dwelms en sal Maandag 20 April 2026 in die Wynberg-landdroshof verskyn.
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Mandrax, tik allegedly found in his possession
Man caught with drugs in toiletry bag
CRIME SCENE: Lavender Hill, Cape Town: A red toiletry bag filled with drugs has cost a 42-year-old man his freedom.
The Crime Prevention Unit of Steenberg were conducting routine patrols in Lavender Hill on Thursday, 16 April 2026 when they saw a man running with the red toiletry bag.
The suspect was apprehended, and during a search, the police found two 20-gram packets of tik, 160 sachets of tik, 150 mandrax tablets and 300 half mandrax tablets in his possession.
The man was arrested for possession of drugs and will appear at the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Monday, 20 April 2026.
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