RISING BODY COUNT UNDERSCORES CAPE TOWN POLICING CRISIS

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RISING BODY COUNT UNDERSCORES CAPE TOWN POLICING CRISIS

Unite for Change Leadership Council Member and GOOD Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament

1. HIGHEST CRIME AREAS HAVE FEW POLICE

2. BILLIONS SPENT ON CITY ‘KITSKOPS’ BEAR NO FRUIT

3. WESTERN CAPE HAS MOST VACANT DETECTIVE POSTS IN THE COUNTRY

The number of people killed in shooting incidents in Cape Town has spiralled since the launch of the Safer Festive Season operations last month, with 40 deaths, mostly gang-related, reported over the past two weekends.

The Safer Festive Season programme, a collaborative effort involving national police, provincial, and City resources, is intended to make communities safer during the tourist season. The principle cannot be faulted. But extra bobbies on the beat in the Waterfront and roadblocks in the Winelands won’t stop the plague of shootings because the violence is happening on the Cape Flats.

A large part of the problem is the politicisation of crime. Policing is a national competency overseen by an ANC Acting Minister, while the DA governments in the Western Cape and City of Cape Town continue to campaign for devolved policing powers. Both spheres have poured billions into creating their own “police” force, the Law Enforcement Advancement Plan (LEAP) yet the quarterly crime statistics show no measurable improvement.

Last month, Western Cape MEC for Police Oversight and Community Safety, Anroux Marais, revealed in response to parliamentary questions that police stations in historically white suburbs remain better resourced than those in predominantly Black and Coloured communities.

For example:

Rondebosch: 1 police officer per 381 residents

Wynberg: 1 per 238 residents

Delft: 1 per 808 residents

Gugulethu: 1 per 962 residents

The overall Western Cape average is 1 police officer per 435 people. Both Delft and Gugulethu rank among the province’s top 10 murder precincts, yet they are the most under-resourced.

The Western Cape Government has invested billions of rands over the past three years, and plans to spend billions more, on LEAP. At its launch, LEAP promised to halve the number of murders in the top 10 murder precincts. Instead, the murder rate has increased.

According to Cape Town Mayco Member JP Smith, the City is deploying “136 officers to tourism hotspots, versus nearly 2,000 to gang and crime hotspot areas” this festive season. 

We will await the fourth-quarter crime statistics to assess whether this massive spend drawn from provincial funds that could support education and healthcare has any real impact. So far, LEAP’s effect has been indiscernible across the past eight quarterly crime reports.

In addition, LEAP has no formal basis in law, similar to the disbanded Amapanyaza unit in Gauteng. If collaboration between SAPS and LEAP is to be meaningful, LEAP must be regularised and brought into the formal legal framework.

Meanwhile, the policing union POPCRU recently revealed 2,344 vacant detective posts nationwide, with the Western Cape accounting for the largest shortage, 902 vacancies. Considering that Cape Town is South Africa’s murder and gang capital, this lack of qualified investigators is a national disgrace.

With political will, the redistribution of police resources to the most affected areas and the filling of vacant detective posts could be resolved quickly. But as we have seen for decades, when politicians exploit gang violence for populist, partisan purposes, the violence simply continues.

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ANC WESTERN CAPE LEADERS JOINS DA

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ANC WESTERN CAPE LEADERS JOINS DA

Senior ANC Western Cape officials and Councillors, have walked over from the ANC to the DA today, starting a process that will gather momentum in the months ahead.

Members leaving the ANC include their elected Western Cape Provincial Secretary and two sitting Ward Councillors, from Swellendam and Cederberg.

The group includes elected members of the ANC Western Cape Provincial Executive and Regional Committees, who are leaving the ANC to join the DA.

This is a milestone moment, and it mirrors the swing in support by South African voters who continue to abandon the ANC to support the DA. This is an example of the realignment of politics in South Africa.

ANC support is in decline across South Africa, and in the Western Cape it is in terminal decline.

In contrast, DA support continues to grow and momentum is building behind the DA’s offer to reform South Africa’s economy, grow jobs for all and replace BEE.

The members who have left the ANC to join the DA in the Western Cape are as follows:

• Neville Delport - Provincial Secretary
• Daniel Baadjies – Langeberg Ward Councillor
• Paul Strauss - Cederberg Ward Councillor
• Jason Donn - Regional Executive Member

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HAWKS ARREST ANOTHER SAFA SUSPECT

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HAWKS ARREST ANOTHER SAFA SUSPECT

GAUTENG -A 64-year-old suspect is expected to appear before the Palm Ridge Specialised Commercial Crimes Court today, 05 November 2025. He was arrested this morning by the Johannesburg based Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime Investigation team after handing himself over 

During September 2018, the suspect was appointed as the Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of South African Football Association (SAFA). It is alleged that the suspect conspire to backdate the contract of Grit Communications at SAFA. It is further alleged that Grit Communications provided services to SAFA President without SAFA’s knowledge and authorisation. It is reported that the service level agreement that was entered into between SAFA and Grit Communications on 01 October 2017 expired on 30 September 2018, therefore there was no new service level agreement that was entered into between SAFA and Grit Communications during the period of October 2018 and July 2019.

Meanwhile the criminal case against his co-accused Danny Jordaan, Gronnie Hluyo, Trevor Neethling, Grit Communications is ongoing and they are expected to appear before the Palm Ridge Specialised Commercial Crimes on 21 November 2025.

The case against Russell Patrick Paul (64) has been postponed to 21 November 2025. He was granted R10 000 bail. 

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Police Minister Cachalia’s Testimony provides more Questions than Answers

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Police Minister Cachalia’s Testimony provides more Questions than Answers

Cachalia has no clear plan or timeline to restore accountability and public trust in SAPS.

He is reluctant to audit past appointments, avoiding accountability for previous failures.

The DA calls for urgent reforms, including independent audits and reinstated disciplinary units.

Acting Minister of Police, Professor Firoz Cachalia's testimony before Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee on Police today raised more uncertainty than clarity about the direction of South Africa’s troubled police service.

Although he has already spent several months in office, Minister Cachalia was unable to outline a concrete plan or timeline to restore accountability, discipline, or public trust in the South African Police Service. Instead, he leaned heavily on talk of “consultation” and “future collaboration,” leaving pressing questions unresolved.

When asked how he intends to rebuild credibility within the service, Cachalia acknowledged that he has no ready plan. He explained that reform would depend on broad engagement and improved capacity within SAPS. It was a vague answer that offers little assurance to communities living under the constant threat of crime.

Equally concerning was his hesitation to support an audit of police promotions and appointments from the past fifteen years, a crucial step toward tackling political interference and corruption that have weakened the organisation. Rather than committing to accountability, he suggested it might be preferable to focus on the future instead of reviewing past failures.

South Africans cannot afford further delays. They deserve immediate and measurable steps from a minister who is ready to act decisively to restore integrity and competence in policing.

The DA again calls for an independent audit of senior SAPS appointments and promotions, the reinstatement of internal disciplinary units to enforce professionalism, and swift implementation of the new SAPS structure to strengthen service delivery.

The DA remains ready to engage with Minister Cachalia in good faith to help rebuild a capable and trusted police service. But progress will depend on moving from broad intentions to visible action that begins to rebuild confidence in SAPS.

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SAPS 2024/25 ANNUAL REPORT

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SAPS 2024/25 ANNUAL REPORT 

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) notes, with outrage, the revelations contained in the recently tabled 2024/25 Annual Report of the South African Police Service (SAPS), which lays bare a police institution that has completely collapsed under the weight of corruption, incompetence and deliberate deception. 

The report confirms beyond doubt that the ANC government has turned the police service into a lawless and dysfunctional bureaucracy. The Auditor-General’s findings expose a pattern of systematic dishonesty. SAPS leadership has resorted to manipulating and inflating performance data to create the false appearance of progress while communities are being terrorised by criminals every day. 

The report shows that in some cases, the police invented success rates that do not exist. For example, in one investigative programme, SAPS claimed that it had solved more than half of crimes at construction sites, when the real achievement was less than seven percent. In other instances, figures on recovered vehicles, firearms and crime reductions were found to be unreliable or exaggerated. This is beyond an administrative mistake but it is the institutionalisation of lies, a betrayal of Parliament and the South African people. 

The rot is most visible in the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), which has completely failed in its constitutional duty to support justice. The backlogs in processing DNA and forensic exhibits have grown by more than half in one year, leaving thousands of criminal cases unresolved. For three consecutive years, this division has not met a single one of its targets, meaning victims of murder, rape and assault are being denied justice because evidence sits unprocessed on laboratory shelves. 

The police leadership hides behind excuses of staff shortages while spending almost eighty percent of its R113 billion budget on salaries, most of which go to administration, not to forensic or investigative work. The report also reveals that SAPS spent every cent of its budget, yet the streets of South Africa remain a war zone. 

This full expenditure is not a sign of efficiency, but of a desperate effort to drain public money before the end of the financial year without delivering anything of value. Billions are wasted on salaries and internal overheads while police stations crumble, forensic systems collapse, and communities wait hours for help that never comes. 

This is the ANC’s definition of service delivery: spending without substance, paperwork without protection, and budgets without outcomes. Corruption has become normalised as irregular expenditure increased to nearly R3 Billion with no real disciplinary consequences or financial recovery, including those tenders given out to criminal kingpin Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala. Out of over R900 million in identified cases, most remain under investigation, meaning the same officials responsible for financial mismanagement continue to hold office. Civil claims against SAPS have also exploded, with over R25 billion in new claims and more than R800 million paid out in the last year alone, mostly for unlawful arrests and detentions. 

The police have become serial violators of the Constitution, arresting citizens illegally and brutalising communities while taxpayers pay the price. The culture of impunity runs deep. Out of almost 4 000 disciplinary cases, nearly half ended with no punishment and either withdrawn or resulting in “not guilty” outcomes. Additionally, only 10% of guilty officers were dismissed, the rest merely received written warnings, proving that corruption, misconduct and brutality are tolerated within SAPS.  

This is the same organisation that lost 8 452 of its own firearms in one year, almost 23 every day, many of which end up in the hands of the same criminals police claim to be fighting. The leadership continues to treat such staggering failures as success because targets are set so low that mediocrity passes as achievement. 

The report also reveals a disturbing failure to protect women and children. Crimes against women and children have increased, yet the SAPS failed to include measurable targets for gender-based violence in its annual plan. This indifference shows contempt for the suffering of the most vulnerable in our society. The so-called action plans and steering committees are meaningless while women continue to be raped and murdered, and children are brutalised daily with no justice. 

The picture painted by this report is a picture of a criminal syndicate dressed in uniform. The ANC government has destroyed what little integrity remained in the SAPS and the SAPS 2024/25 Annual Report is a mirror reflecting a state that has decayed beyond recognition under ANC rule. It exposes a leadership incapable of protecting its people or upholding the Constitution, which has been illuminated by the current inquiries taking place through the Madlanga Commission and the Parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee into the disbandment of the Political Killings Task Team. 

This is why the EFF championed the establishment of the Ad Hoc Committee on the infiltration of the SAPS, a critical intervention in Parliament we are leading with determination and clarity. 

Through this committee, we will resolve on final recommendations that will lay the foundation for a reformed, accountable, and corruptionfree police service that truly serves and protects the people of South Africa. 

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DEPARTURE OF NEVILLE DELPORT FROM THE ANC TO DA

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DEPARTURE OF NEVILLE DELPORT FROM THE ANC TO DA

The African National Congress (ANC) is not surprised nor shaken by the departure of Neville Delport from the organisation. His exit affirms the correctness and necessity of the ongoing reconfiguration process, which seeks to restore the ANC’s integrity, discipline, and ideological clarity.  

We have always been aware of his regressive and narrow ideological posture, which sought to divide our people on the basis of apartheid classification. His departure is a confirmation that those who hold these kinds of tendencies in the movement will not survive an ANC that is renewed. 

The renewal of our movement is a deliberate act to cleanse it of opportunism, self-interest, and political convenience. Delport’s decision to join a right-wing formation that is openly anti-transformation, anti-justice, and indifferent to the suffering of Palestinians exposes the moral and political bankruptcy of those who abandon the cause of equality. His self-ejection validates that the ANC is on the right path; a path that prizes principle over position, and loyalty to the people over loyalty to privilege. 

Renewal is not about removing individuals but about restoring the moral centre of the ANC. We are rebuilding a movement of service, humility, and honesty, guided by the Freedom Charter and anchored in the struggles of the working class and the poor. The ANC of Luthuli, Tambo, and Hani will not be captured by personal ambition; it will remain the people’s movement, shaped by their aspirations and grounded in their daily realities. 

The ANC’s mission in the Western Cape is to unite all South Africans, black (Africans, Coloureds, Indians) and white; behind one vision of a non-racial, non-sexist, democratic, and prosperous South Africa. We seek a province where the children of Bonteheuwel, Delft, Khayelitsha, Gugulethu, and Mitchells Plain can live with the same dignity, safety, and opportunity as those in Franschhoek, Stellenbosch, and Sandton. 

This is the essence of our revolution; the restoration of dignity and equality for all. Our renewal is not a slogan but a living programme for change, to build communities that work, to create jobs, and to return hope to every South African. Those who depart expose their own contradictions; those who remain strengthen our resolve. 

The ANC is being purified by truth and propelled by conviction; towards the ultimate goal of a better life for all. The ANC, Africa’s oldest and greatest liberation movement, marches firmly on; renewed in spirit, anchored in purpose, and unwavering in its commitment to justice and dignity for all. 

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EPWP INVESTIGATION NORTH WEST

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EPWP INVESTIGATION NORTH WEST

DA calls for full provincial EPWP investigation as abuse runs deep in North West

The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the North West welcomes Minister Dean Macpherson’s decision to investigate allegations that EPWP workers in Bojanala District were forced to perform domestic chores for a mayoral committee member and coerced into paying political party membership fees.

However, this probe must not stop there. The DA is calling for the investigation to be expanded to cover the entire province, given that the abuse of EPWP workers is widespread and systemic.

Among the alarming cases documented by the DA are:

• Tswaing Local Municipality: EPWP workers were allegedly forced to campaign for councillors under threat of losing their positions. The DA has video evidence supporting these claims.
• Mahikeng Local Municipality: Workers report being robbed of stipends and receiving lower payments than contracted.
• Kagisano-Molopo (Piet Plessis area): Allegations that recruitment is based on personal favouritism rather than merit.
• Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality: Claims of irregular use of EPWP funds and lack of proper accountability.
• Maquassi Hills Local Municipality: The programme is alleged to have become a jobs-for-pals scheme.

The DA further urges Minister Macpherson to fast-track his EPWP Listening Tour and include the North West province as a key stop. Communities here have repeatedly raised concerns about political interference, delayed payments, and unfair recruitment, yet these complaints have largely gone unaddressed. Direct engagement with affected participants will provide us with valuable information about the scale of abuse and help guide meaningful reforms.

The EPWP must be restored to its intended purpose: creating dignified work, building skills, and empowering communities, not serving political or personal interests. 

The DA will continue to monitor the investigation closely and support efforts to ensure that all officials and politicians implicated face accountability.

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