Innholdsfortegnelse for 2025-05-20 i Daily Voice

YET another shooting outside a hof hit the Mother City yesterday as a vrou was found dead inside a vehicle outside the Blue Downs Magistrates Court, with the cop shop right next door. Social media was abuzz as mense said that this type of incident is becoming a trend, where people are either shot outside a police station or courthouse. The shooting follows the killing of a 50-year-old man facing charges of murder and illegal possession of a firearm inside the Wynberg Regional court on 8 April. In March, an alleged Hard Livings gangster was shot opposite Mitchells Plain police station by a person pretending to be a car guard. And on 30 January, alleged Junky Funky gang boss Ashley “Essie” Phillips was gunned down outside the Brackenfell police station.…

A BEACON Valley family, including their tenants, are dik unhappy after their home was flooded with sewage and drain water. Natasha Dreyer, living in Morgenster Road, said that she has been experiencing the same issue for 24 years and despite calling on the City of Cape Town to fix the issue at the root, the problem persists. On Saturday, her home flooded again and by Monday morning the place was still sopnat as nobody had come out to fix it. A frustrated Natasha says: “My house is next to a canal, so whenever there is flooding my house takes the most of it. “I have been living in Morgenster for 24 years and this has been going on for 24 years but it was never this bad. “The last couple…

DEMOCRATIC Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen is on a mission to save South Africa’s unravelling relationship with America. President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to have a showdown with US counterpart Donald Trump this week in Washington DC, with the relationship between the two nations at an all-time low. Since his return to the White House in January, Trump has stopped financial aid to SA, imposed various tariffs, accused Mzansi of aiding Hamas and persecuting Afrikaners. Trump supporters, including Pretoria-born Elon Musk, claim that a white genocide is taking place in South Africa, with Afrikaner farms being confiscated by the SA government. Tensions rose last week, when the US welcomed 54 Afrikaners as refugees, sparking a backlash in SA, the US and across the world. Now Ramaphosa has drukked op Steenhuisen…