Cape Town is a 'dumping ground'

EXPERTS HAVE THEIR SAY ON THE MOTHER CITY'S FIELDS OF DEATH

- BY MARSHA DEAN

THE Cape Flats has become a dumping ground, with human bodies being discarded in horrific ways.

Crime groups and social media are flooded every week with stories of bodies being found on open fields or in bushes almost every day or every second day.

Criminals seem to follow the same modus operandi, as bodies are found gruesomely mutilated, burned beyond recognition or in a wheelie bin.

The areas commonly recorded with the highest body counts are the shifting dunes along Baden Powell Drive and in Mitchells Plain or in the reeds of Macassar. Some are just left on open veldjies - some still smouldering, some barely covered up.

On Monday, 17 November, Mitchells Plain police registered a murder case for investigation following an incident in Waboom Street, Tafelsig, at about 7.20am, where a man was found with parts of his face cut out and his pants pulled down.

On Wednesday morning, Harare police registered an inquest for investigation following the discovery of human skeletal remains in a shallow grave in Baden Powell Drive, Enkanini, Khayelitsha. DNA testing will be conducted to determine the identity of the remains.

On Thursday morning, 20 November in Lotus River, an adult man was found dumped in a wheelie bin in Stephen Road. Hours later, Delft police registered a murder case for investigation after the body of a man believed to be in his 20s was found by a passerby on an open field on Symphony Way.

The victim was burnt beyond recognition and was declared deceased on the scene by medical personnel.

Earlier this year, Tafelsig mom Clare Swartz’s body was dumped in Wolfgat Nature Reserve after she was stabbed to death. These incidents give just a glimpse into the horror that our communities are facing in the Cape.

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