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Carnival returns Performers with the Michelle Davids Dance Company are ready to take to the streets for the 2020 Cape Town Carnival heading to the Fan Walk on Saturday 21 March. Expect to see 2 000 performers fill the streets with colour, music and dance. The theme is “Incredible Journey: Sounds of South Africa”. Read story on page 6. PHOTO: SAMANTHA LEE-JACOBS
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National honours for sgt SAMANTHA LEE-JACOBS @Samantha_Lee121
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he Mitchell’s Plain detective who recently took top honours at the regional police awards has done it again. This time taking home the national title of Detective of the Year. Detective Sgt Randall Davids of the Mitchell’s Plain police station accepted the award on Sunday 26 January in Port Elizabeth. His citation reads: “The member is meticulous and expedient with his investigations. This was evident in his ability to link two separate cases and amass enough evidence to secure a conviction for a rapist-murderer – who was handed down four life sentences – at the high court within eleven months. The member investigated the rape and murder of a six-year-old girl in Mitchell’s Plain in 2018. The forensic evidence linked the girl’s murderer to an unsolved case at the
Harare Police Station where to get convictions,” it the perpetrator had raped and concluded. murdered his 19-year-old exHis win was in recoggirlfriend in 2015. Bringing nition of his detective justice to the families was at work in the case of Stathe fore of Sgt Davids’ mind, cey Adams, whose body he worked after normal workwas found buried in a ing hours and used his own shallow grave outside vehicle to ensure service dethe wendy house of livery. He also used his own Christopher Brown in cellphone to give victims’ Tafelsig (“Girl (6) found families regular feedback on in shallow grave”, Peothe progress of their cases,” it ple’s Post, 26 June 2018). read. The then 25-year-old “Sgt Davids’ relentless hard Detective Sgt Randall Davids is was arrested while resiwork resulted in lengthy jail Detective of the Year. dents set fire to the main terms secured for criminals home in outrage. and closure of a cold case. The attention this Brown admitted to Adams’ murder and received in the media has proven to the com- rape, stating it was in revenge for his girlmunity that the police will ensure that crim- friend going out without him. His girlfriend inals account for their actions no matter was Adams’ mother. how long it takes to gather enough evidence Davids managed to link Adam’s case to the
cold murder case of his ex-girlfriend, Thulisa Lavisa in Khayelitsha. Davids has been in the police service for close to 16 years and was influenced to pursue this career from a young age. “Growing up watching crime series, I felt motivated to fight crime one day and to make the community safe. My area was gang-ridden at the time and I wanted to be involved in turning people away from crime,” says Davids. Davids has been a detective for 13 years. “The satisfaction of solving cases, giving families closure, the team work by the unit are all positives that keep me motivated,” he says. “I believe that its by God’s grace that we are able to serve and fulfil our calling in life. There are challenges and the job can be demanding and make a person feel despondent at times, however being focused on your goal will enable you to stay positive.”
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