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A LAW enforcement officer was busted and arrested during a multi-disciplinary intelligence operation in Bellville yesterday. The 43-year-old official faces charges of kidnapping, extortion, murder and defeating the ends of justice after a victim was allegedly abducted in Kraaifontein on 16 May. According to the docket, the victim was lured to Bellville when he was offered a deal to buy a vehicle, but instead he was kidnapped and held for ransom. Initially, R100 000 was demanded, however further calls were made by the suspects reducing the amount to R10 000. Suspects The suspects provided a bank account where the money was expected to be deposited into. However it is alleged that an amount of R5 000 was deposited, but the suspects demanded the balance. After the money didn’t arrive, the…

MININSTER of Sports, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie has slammed Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policy. The controversial Patriotic Alliance leader told Black Business Council Summit that if he was president of the country he would scrap BEE, as he called for more reforms to boost economic growth. Instead of BEE he proposed replacing it with a single empowerment bank, funded by a mandatory contribution of 1 percent of turnover from all white-owned businesses and previously empowered individuals. He said: “You can’t build wealth without collateral.” He believes the new bank would provide loans where “your blackness will be your collateral. Your black skin”. According to him, this model avoids the counterproductive practice of forced partnerships, such as the 26 percent equity expectations under current BEE frameworks. Business He added:…

THE ongoing tensions between taxi associations saw Somerset West’s CBD shut down yesterday. Members of The City of Cape Town’s Safety and Security Directorate and the South African Police Service were deployed to prevent further escalation in the dispute over routes between Cape Organisation for the Democratic Taxi Association (Codeta) and Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association (CATA). The brewing taxi war has already left a trail of devastation, with an eight-year-old boy being wounded by a stray bullet on Saturday in Lwandle, Strand and a mass shooting at the Mfuleni taxi rank where four people died and three injured last Friday. City traffic officials shored up road closures after taxis blocked some of the routes in the vicinity of the Public Transport Interchange and motorists were advised that Victoria Road between…