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Fireworks and gunshots ‘a dangerous combination’
Cape Argus
|November 04, 2025
WITH Guy Fawkes celebrations approaching, Cape Town's police and residents are calling for a peaceful night, highlighting the dangers and chaos that fireworks can bring
For many Cape Flats residents, the days leading up to Guy Fawkes feel like life in a war zone, with children, pets and the elderly all on edge as fireworks echo through the night.
This year could be even more traumatising, with areas like Mitchells Plain, Hanover Park, Manenberg, Ocean View, Elsies River, Lavender Hill and Grassy Park reporting gunfire and running battles between gangs on a daily basis.
Retired Grassy Park station commander Lieutenant-Colonel Dawood Laing previously said that each year officers are faced with being unable to determine whether the noise is gunshots or fireworks.
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