{"id":142924,"date":"2019-08-06T20:18:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T18:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/cape-town-weekend-murders-down-in-latest-stats-as-knives-overtake-guns-as-weapon-of-choice\/"},"modified":"2019-08-06T20:18:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T18:18:19","slug":"cape-town-weekend-murders-down-in-latest-stats-as-knives-overtake-guns-as-weapon-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cape-town-weekend-murders-down-in-latest-stats-as-knives-overtake-guns-as-weapon-of-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town weekend murders down in latest stats, as knives overtake guns as weapon of choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cape Town in the news:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cape Town weekend murders down in latest stats, as knives overtake guns as weapon of choice<\/a>:<\/strong> The Cape Town metro recorded 41 murders this past weekend, with knives and sharp instruments overtaking guns as the weapon of choice, the Western Cape government said on Tuesday. \u201cOf the 41 \u2026: <strong><small><em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRssaid=tid=336D31EF7B5F4237B61484964A500059url=https%3a%2f%2fm.news24.com%2fSouthAfrica%2fNews%2fcape-town-weekend-murders-down-in-latest-stats-as-knives-overtake-guns-as-weapon-of-choice-20190806c=16597564696884856209mkt=en-us\">\u201cCape Town\u201d \u2013 BingNews<\/a> <\/em><\/small><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cape Town Feeder Dams Hit Highest Levels In 4 Years<\/a>:<\/strong> A year ago the city still faced the prospect of \u2018Day Zero\u2019. But now dams feeding Cape Town have recovered tremendously. In fact, the Western Cape government said that continued good rainfall in the \u2026: <strong><small><em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRssaid=tid=336D31EF7B5F4237B61484964A500059url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.iafrica.com%2fcape-town-feeder-dams-hit-highest-levels-in-4-years%2fc=1895773452158016846mkt=en-us\">\u201cCape Town\u201d \u2013 BingNews<\/a> <\/em><\/small><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Campaign launched as \u201854% of South Africans are vulnerable to human trafficking\u2019<\/a>:<\/strong> Cape Town \u2013 Increased incidents of human trafficking in South Africa has prompted a campaign which aims to create more awareness of how the public can spot crime happening on the streets. A21 human \u2026: <strong><small><em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRssaid=tid=336D31EF7B5F4237B61484964A500059url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.iol.co.za%2fcapeargus%2fnews%2fcampaign-launched-as-54-of-south-africans-are-vulnerable-to-human-trafficking-30401532c=246088311794935249mkt=en-us\">\u201cCape Town\u201d \u2013 BingNews<\/a> <\/em><\/small><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ACCOUNTABILITY NOW LAYS CHARGES AGAINST MKWHEBANE!<\/a>:<\/strong> The group laid a case of perjury and defeating the ends of justice against Mkhwebane at Ocean View Police Station in Cape Town on Monday. The group also sent a letter of complaint to the Office of the \u2026: <strong><small><em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRssaid=tid=336D31EF7B5F4237B61484964A500059url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.dailysun.co.za%2fNews%2faccountability-now-lays-charges-against-mkwhebane-20190806c=13200741581006829810mkt=en-us\">\u201cCape Town\u201d \u2013 BingNews<\/a> <\/em><\/small><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mypr.co.za\/submit\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to submit your Cape Town News<\/a> \u2013 free.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Have you tried:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/MyZA.co.za\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Travelling to South Africa<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Quick Cape Town Fact:<\/strong> The world\u2019s first heart transplant took place in Cape Town \u2013 In 1967 the South African doctor Christiaan Barnard performed the world\u2019s first heart transplantat in the world in Cape Town.  Less known is the fact that the patient, unfortunately died of pneumonia 18 days after the \u2018successful\u2019 transplant.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town in the news: Cape Town weekend murders down in latest stats, as knives overtake guns as weapon of choice: The Cape Town metro recorded 41 murders this past weekend, with knives and sharp instruments overtaking guns as the weapon of choice, the Western Cape government said on Tuesday. \u201cOf the 41 \u2026: \u201cCape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3331],"tags":[25,1737,77,3333],"class_list":{"0":"post-142924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cape-town","7":"tag-cape-town-2","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-municipality","10":"tag-mycapetown-co-za","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}