Diepsloot news today

2022 - 4 - 7

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Diepsloot leaders accuse Nhlanhla Lux of hijacking their protest (eNCA)

Operation Dudula leader, Nhlanhla 'Lux' Mohlauli visited the area on Wednesday afternoon following protests over rampant crime.

So he hijacked what the people of Diepsloot are fighting for. "This thing is for community, not for anyone. He came today after he's seen on the news.

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Bheki Cele arrives to meet with Diepsloot protestors (eNCA)

JOHANNESBURG - Police Minister Bheki Cele and National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola are visiting Diepsloot on Wednesday. This after residents threatened ...

Police Minister Bheki Cele and National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola are expected to visit Diepsloot after residents threatened a shutdown over crime in the area. JOHANNESBURG - Police Minister Bheki Cele and National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola are visiting Diepsloot on Wednesday. This after residents threatened a shutdown over crime.

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Bheki Cele in Diepsloot where furious residents say crime is out of ... (SowetanLIVE)

Police minister Bheki Cele and police commissioner Gen Fannie Masemola visited Diepsloot in northern Johannesburg on Wednesday as the community threatened ...

“The minister must give us the time frames on when the police and home affairs people are going to do a door-to-door operation ... searching all these illegal immigrants. “We are expecting to do a walkabout with the minister today so that he can see where the problem is ... We expect to go door-to-door with him, to the place where those people have been murdered, so that he will be able to see for himself. Police minister Bheki Cele and police commissioner Gen Fannie Masemola visited Diepsloot in northern Johannesburg on Wednesday as the community threatened to shut down the area and remove criminal elements on Thursday.

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Police Minister Bheki Cele details interventions to protestors in ... (Eyewitness News)

Police Minister Bheki Cele has arrived in Diepsloot where he is expected to address the community on high crime levels.

Police and some of the marchers work together to quickly douse the flames. EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter)EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) #DiepslootProtestTyres burn just meters from the police station. They said police simply couldn’t cope with high crime levels in the area. We need electricity here in Extension 1 in all the streets so that when crime happens people and the police can enter.” We need Bheki Cele and the other ministers to sit down. We are bringing a special detectives team to come and deal with outstanding and cold cases.

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One person killed overnight at Diepsloot in mob attack (TimesLIVE)

One person was killed in a mob attack overnight in Diepsloot north of Johannesburg, just hours after police minister Bheki Cele visited the area.

However, we are deeply concerned about this incident [the murder] because it looks like community members — a few of them grouped themselves and went to do door-to-door. Then when they got to a yard, a guy jumped out of his shack and ran. We are told police responded swiftly but the person was already dead when they arrived on the scene.” Responding to the community, Cele said more than 50 police members, including 30 tactical response team members, and 16 police vehicles would be deployed to ensure that crime-fighting in the area is strengthened. There was a mob attack,” Moalosi said. Speaking to eNCA, the widow said when they saw “many people” enter their yard, “we tried to run away and hide.”

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One person killed in apparent mob-justice incident in Diepsloot ... (Independent Online)

One person has been killed in an apparent mob-justice incident in Diepsloot, hours after national police Police Minister Bheki Cele and newly appointed ...

Muridili told eNCA there had been extra deployment since Tuesday in the area, because residents decided to protest while there was a meeting with management at the local station. National police spokesperson Colonel Brenda Muridili told eNCA that a young man apparently was in a house and ran out and they followed him and he was killed. Durban – A young man was killed on Wednesday night in Diepsloot, a few hours after Minister Cele and police commissioner Fannie Masemola had been in the area.

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Cele to deploy specialist police teams to Diepsloot after 7 people ... (News24)

This follows a spate of killings that triggered mass protests. On Wednesday, Police Minister Bheki Cele, Gauteng Premier David Makhura, Gauteng Safety MEC Faith ...

"What I will concede here is that we did not manage and sustain that project. We raised this in the meeting with him," he added. This means that in the next 24 hours, the station will have 16 new cars." After that, we will increase the number of Public Order Police to come and work here until we come back and speak about how things have changed in this area. "There are people who died here whose cases weren't investigated properly. He added that in the next 24 hours, about 30 members of the TRT and POP would be deployed in the area.

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Migrants in Diepsloot ask to be repatriated (SowetanLIVE)

The Foundation for Human Rights has started receiving requests from migrants in Diepsloot who want to be assisted to go back to their countries after ...

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