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Cheslyn Jacobs – From the Cape Flats to CEO of TymeBank

From Crawford on the Cape Flats to CEO of TymeBank, Cheslyn Jacobs is reshaping South African banking through purpose-driven leadership.

by Ryan Swano 5 January 2026, 20:22 110 Views 14 Votes

TymeBank South Africa has begun a new chapter with Cheslyn Jacobs being appointed as the Chief Executive Officer, having taken up the role on 1 January 2026 after more than a decade with the digital bank. His appointment marks a significant milestone for a leader whose journey from humble beginnings to the upper echelons of […]

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The Cape Flats is Bleeding. Political Leaders Must Stop Hiding Behind Statements

Grant Pascoe writes that The Cape Flats is bleeding while political leaders deflect, delay and fail communities demanding safety and accountability.

by Grant Pascoe 16 November 2025, 18:32 63 Views 18 Votes

The killings on the Cape Flats have reached a point where no one can pretend this is just another spike in crime. It is a collapse of leadership. It is a police command that has lost control. It is a political class that hides behind statements while communities bury their children. The first half of […]

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The Big Five Mafia and the Cape Flats

How the Big Five Mafia ties politics, business, international cartels and global crime, leading to Cape Flats violence and community suffering.

by Henriette Abrahams 2 October 2025, 21:30 158 Views 21 Votes

International cartels, political elites, and business profiteers join forces, leaving our children, elders, and workers to bleed. This week, at the Madlanga Commission, Dumisani Khumalo pulled back the curtain on the “Big Five Mafia” – the crime cartels that dominate South Africa’s underworld. His testimony confirmed what our communities on the Cape Flats have known […]

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The Night Is Still Young – A Cape Flats Crime Reports Poem

A haunting cry of grief and outrage, this poem by Henriette Abrahams draws from Real Cape Flats Crime Reports for just one early night, Tonight 19 September 2025.

by Henriette Abrahams 19 September 2025, 21:28 109 Views 17 Votes

The Night Is Still Young Nyanga: five shot. Three blue, two red. Bodies filed into colour codes, as if death were paperwork, as if grief must be catalogued. Elsies River updates— “one young male fatally wounded.” The message pings, urgent as breaking news, but routine as weather. Mothers’ screams never trend. Hanover Park rattles, Moray […]

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No Plan, No Shame: The State Abandons the Cape Flats

No plan to stop gang violence and killings — The state abandons the Cape Flats while bodies pile up and politicians play games.

by Henriette Abrahams 10 September 2025, 15:56 110 Views 16 Votes

Last week I wrote “Blood on Their Hands” to expose how the Cape Flats bleeds while the state looks away. Today, Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia confirmed the betrayal in Mitchells Plain: there is no resourced plan to stop the killings. SAPS, the Provincial Commissioner, and the so-called justice cluster admitted plainly that while a […]

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It’s Like The Purge – Guy Fawkes Day Mayhem on Cape Flats

Hoolganism and Violence on Guy Fawkes Day – How British ‘Civilsation’ brought us this Uncivilised Chaos & Mayhem

by Ryan Swano 5 November 2024, 19:27 373 Views 15 Votes

For many in South Africa, and indeed for many living in Britain and in former British colonies across the world, Guy Fawkes is just a fun day to shoot fireworks or make bonfires. In certain parts of the Cape Flats, 5 November is a day of mayhem and chaos, and the fear of being injured […]

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Christmas Day Blazes Leave Cape Flats Families Destitute

Multiple Christmas Day Fires Destroyed Homes in Four Elsies River & Ravensmead Wards with Residents Desperately Needing Help

by Ryan Swano 26 December 2023, 16:09 1k Views 18 Votes

The high winds sweeping the Cape Peninsula on Christmas Day combined with the high density of ‘Backyard Dwellers’ on the Cape Flats is a potentially deadly combination when a fire breaks out. Multiple house fires on Christmas Day in four separate wards in Elsies River and adjacent Ravensmead, as well as fires in the days […]

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in Education, News, Opinion, Parenthood, Videos

Matric Ball Debate Sparks Fly While At Least Two Cape Flats Schools Cancel

We ask: How Important is Having a Matric Ball as a Rite of Passage and What Lies Beyond Matric?

by Ryan Swano 8 October 2023, 21:14 2.1k Views 18 Votes

Make no mistake; this isn’t about whether our schools should or should not have Matric Balls. With our astonishingly high dropout rates for learners who start high school in Grade 8 but never make it to matric, we do need to have some form of celebration for those who have actually made it to the […]

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Band Aid SA Ensures Cape Flats NPO’s Benefit from Nedbank’s Blanket Drive

Band Aid SA Rounds Off Tail-End of Winter With Blankets Donated by Nedbank

by Ryan Swano 22 September 2023, 15:12 243 Views 16 Votes

Albeit we are in the middle of September, the exceptionally cold winter weather we are experiencing shows no signs of abating anytime soon. Band Aid SA, through their long standing relationship with Nedbank, have ensured that two local NPO’s affiliated to Band Aid SA will be able to bring some warmth into the lives of […]

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in Business News, Education, Entertainment, Music

Experts Present Music Industry Masterclasses on the Cape Flats

Music Industry Experts Team Up with Selwyn Bartlett’s SCM Academy in Presenting Affordable & Easily Accessible Masterclasses

by Ryan Swano 22 September 2023, 11:43 383 Views 16 Votes

There are very few careers in which you can excel without any preparation or without equipping yourself with knowledge of the industry you are in. A music industry career is no different. You cannot simply rely on your talent alone. There is a reason it is called an ‘Industry’ and Selwyn Bartlett has identified the […]

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Cape Flats Girl & Bergvliet Boy got to make a Star Wars Film

by Ryan Swano 23 May 2023, 09:47 72 Views 1 Vote

From the Cape Town to a galaxy far, far away, the South African-made Star Wars short film Aau’s Song is an official Lucasfilm sanctioned animation short film now streaming worldwide oin Disney+. Co-directed by Capetonians Nadia Darries and Daniel Clarke, Aau’s Song is the final short film in the second volume of the Star Wars: […]

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Cape Town’s R180 Million Safety Wall Only Masks the Crime Problem

A R180 million safety wall may only mask crime on Cape Town’s N2, while it avoids confronting inequality, policing failures and the roots of violence.

by Ryan Swano 15 December 2025, 14:36 395 Views 16 Votes

Once again, Cape Town finds itself responding to a senseless tragedy with an expensive physical structure rather than confronting the deeper social and policing failures that made that tragedy possible. Last week the City of Cape Town confirmed that it will press ahead with plans to build a R180 million “security wall” along sections of […]

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