Innholdsfortegnelse for 2025-11-13 i Daily Voice

AS HE watched the smoke billowing out of his brother’s brown leather jacket at a local tavern, Grabouw teenager Ivor Swartz would have known that life as he knew it was about to change forever. It was a Sunday night – a couple of decades ago – when Ivor, who left home in search of himself at the age of 13, was confronted by the monster that tormented his family home for years – his older brother Deon and diè se vrinne. They got into a scuffle and Ivor and his friend shot Deon. Dead. Ivor recalled: “My brother wore a brown leather jacket and I could see the smoke coming out of it, but hy hou vol ‘dis nie regte bullets nie’ and that he will come back for…

Broken She added: “We couldn’t sleep. Ederees would walk around at night crying. I still can’t sleep, I can’t eat. “Our baby daughter keeps asking where her brothers are. I don't know what to say, our eldest daughter, as strong as she is, I can see she is broken too.” She then added that on the day of the shooting outside Portlands Primary School where Jacobs and Gouwa Smith-Newman were shot and killed, Ederees came home with the children and confessed what he had done. “He asked me if he should hand himself over or kill himself. I told him to hand himself over, because the children wouldn’t cope without him,” she added. According to the siblings’ father, Mogamat Nadeem Smith, the tragedy stems from what he describes as “obsession…

TWO women were shot dead and eight more were injured in a mass shooting at Nyanga taxi rank yesterday. According to police reports, the 10 victims, all members of the Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association (Cata), were travelling in a Sprinter op pad na ‘n Cata meeting scheduled to take place near Cape Town International Airport when gunmen attacked. Deputy provincial commissioner Major-General Luyanda Damoyi, who visited the scene, said that police suspect the shooting may be linked to internal conflicts within Cata, and investigations are ongoing. Damoyi confirmed that two women died at the scene, while several other women and one man sustained gunshot wounds. They were rushed to nearby medical facilities for treatment. He added that three suspects emerged from a bakkie and began shooting. It appeared that a…

Crying The State said: “It is alleged that on Sunday, 9 November 2025, the mother and the accused were at home with the child, and at 3am the child was crying. “The accused became frustrated, took the infant from his mother, and began to assault the child. He hit the child on the back and the bum. The mother took the child and put him to sleep.” The mother’s cousin, Nolan Williams, was accompanied by the infant’s great-grandfather Isaac Williams who also attended the court case. Outside court, Nolan said: “He was beaten on the bum, he was burnt with a cigarette in the face, and he has a knob at the back of his head, and the doctors have said, after confirmation from Red Cross Children’s Hospital, he has…

Bodies “Preliminary investigations indicate there were no casings at the scene, which means the crimes could have been committed somewhere else and the bodies were driven there and left the car there. “We as a community cannot allow that murders and gun violence continues unabated within our communities. We ask the police service to step up their patrols, to step up their search capacity within the precinct and have constant roadblocks and do stop and searches.” The Provincial Commissioner of the Western Cape, Lieutenant General Thembisile Patekile, condemned the senseless act of violence, saying: “Gangsterism has no place in our society. The SAPS will continue to exert pressure on these criminal networks...” Anyone with information can contact Crime Stop on 08600 10111 or the MySAPS mobile application.…