Media Statement
South African Police Service
Office of the Provincial Commissioner Western Cape

WESTERN CAPE - Following a shooting incident on Sunday evening, 07 December 2025, in North-end Street, Cloetesville, in which two children, aged four and seven, and an adult male, were shot and wounded, the Station Commander of Cloetesville SAPS instructed police members to work around the clock to bring the perpetrators to book. The members used informer networks to source information and obtained witness statements in a bid to trace and arrest the suspects.

The members followed up all the information they have gathered on the whereabouts of the suspects and their determination to bring the suspects to book were rewarded when they arrested the perpetrators within two hours after the shooting incident. The two suspects, aged 27 and 31, face charges of attempted murder.

The duo is set to appear before the Stellenbosch Magistrate's Court once they have been charged.

The Provincial Commissioner of the Western Cape, Lieutenant General (Adv.) Thembisile Patekile, commended the Station Commander and the members who have worked hard to arrest those responsible for the crime and ensuring they are brought before a court of law.

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