Kim Swartz

Cape Town

Journalist at Daily Voice (South Africa)

📝 Journalist @DailyVoiceSA 📩 [email protected]

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Articles

AUNTY GIRLY DOES IT AGAIN

1 week ago | dailyvoice.co.za | Kim Swartz

Kim Swartz | June 18, 2025HUNDREDS of fire victims received a Youth Day surprise in Phumlani Informal Settlements on Monday thanks to community worker Beryl Williams. The popular vrou, know as “Aunty Girly”, spent her Youth Day handing out parcels to the informal settlements meisies and laaities and made a lekker warm pot of chicken curry for the mense after a devastating blaze tore through their homes last week.
TRIPLE MURDER ROCKS PLAIN

1 week ago | dailyvoice.co.za | Kim Swartz

Kim Swartz | June 18, 2025A TRIPLE moord rocked the streets of Lentegeur yesterday, claiming the life of an alleged gang member, his girlfriend and an e-hailing driver. Tensions were high on the scene at the intersection of Merrydale Avenue and Highlands Drive which was cornered off after three people were shot. According to reports, the Honda Amaze which was carrying the alleged American and his meisie came under attack by assailants in two cars, which had driven up alongside them.
Teacher accused of sharing pornographic images with Grade 7 learner remains in custody"

1 week ago | capeargus.co.za | Kim Swartz

Kim Swartz|Published 5 minutes agoThe Grade R teacher made her first appearance in the Mitchells Plan Magistrate's Court,Image: Kim SwartzThe Mitchells Plain Grade R teacher accused of sexual grooming of a schoolboy apparently called him to her class at school. This was heard at a tense Mitchells Plain Magistrates Court last Friday, as the 35-year-old teacher made her first appearance for sexual grooming of a child and exposing a child to explicit material.
STREET PARTY TURNS DEADLY

1 week ago | dailyvoice.co.za | Kim Swartz

Kim Swartz | June 17, 2025AN ALLEGED gang member was brutally shot during a street party in Manenberg on Saturday, despite efforts by cops declaring a zero-tolerance policy on jolle in the streets. The 32-year-old was gunned down on 14 June at 8.30pm while the nommers were klopping outside his home. According to police reports, it is believed that the man was in his house in Kasougu Road while the party was rukking outside when an unknown opposing gang member called him outside.
PATIENT WAS FORMALLY DISCHARGED

2 weeks ago | dailyvoice.co.za | Kim Swartz

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‘YOUR CHILD IS MY CHILD’

2 weeks ago | dailyvoice.co.za | Kim Swartz

Kim Swartz | June 13, 2025“YOUR child is my child” is the message Good Samaritan Jodie-Ann Alcock shared after helping to return an abducted boy to his mother last week. Mother Chantel Ernstzen and son Seth were reunited after the boy was allegedly taken by two men outside a winkel near the 14-year-old’s school, Spine Road High, last Monday. Jodie-Ann told the Daily Voice that she was travelling to work along Baden Powell Drive on 2 June at approximately 8.40am when she spotted the shaken laaitie.
Grade R teacher arrested for allegedly sending explicit images to learner

2 weeks ago | capeargus.co.za | Kim Swartz

Kim Swartz|Published 10 minutes agoAngry parents protested outside Harvester Primary School. Image: Kim SwartzA 35-year-old Grade R teacher at Harvester Primary School in Westridge, Mitchell's Plain, resigned and has been arrested after she allegedly sent a Grade 7 learner text messages and videos of a sexual nature. Angry parents protested outside the school on Thursday, demanding answers after the shocking reports came to light this week.
MOM CALLS FOR GETUIES

2 weeks ago | dailyvoice.co.za | Kim Swartz

Kim Swartz | June 12, 2025A HEINZ Park mom is fighting for justice after her son’s alleged killer’s case got transferred from Athlone to the Wynberg Regional Court and is calling for witnesses to come forward. Moeneeb Vardien, 25, from Manenberg is accused of viciously murdering Randall Robain on a Philippi farm on 28 January 2024. Robain’s body was found in a vullisdrom after being stabbed and set alight.
'DUMPED OUTSIDE HOSPITAL'

2 weeks ago | dailyvoice.co.za | Kim Swartz

Kim Swartz | June 11, 2025A GOOD Samaritan was left geskok after encountering a wheelchair-bound patient left stranded on the pavement outside of Groote Schuur Hospital. The woman, who asked not to be named, said she was visiting another patient at the hospital when she saw the frail patient named Imraan Isaacs. She said when she saw the staff leaving him alone, she intervened.
LOST AND FOUND

2 weeks ago | dailyvoice.co.za | Kim Swartz

Kim Swartz | June 10, 2025“TO GET that phone call as a mother is not an easy phone call, to hear the words that your son was abducted.”Mitchells Plain mom Chantel Gibson said at about 8.35am on 2 June, her son, Seth, went to a winkel on the corner of Merrydale and Spine Roads om die draai van sy skool. She said as he walked back from the shop to school two manne pulled him into a vehicle that was standing at the robot.