Cape Town Lawyers Under Siege From Criminal Underworld [Video]

06 Oct 2022 by Jasmine Stone in Cape Town, Crime, South Africa, Television, Video

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In October 2018, advocate Pete Mihalik was gunned down and killed outside Reddam House in Green Point while dropping off his eight-year-old son at school.

Immediately, attention turned to the cases he was involved in, with many believing the murder may have been connected to the trial of alleged extortion syndicate boss Nafiz Modack.

The three men accused of killing Mihalik – Nkosinathi Khumalo, Sizwe Biyela, and Vuyile Maliti – are currently on trial at the Western Cape High Court.

Then there’s advocate Jakes van der Merwe, who was fortunate to escape with his life after an assassin tried to kill him in February 2020 in Gardens, Cape Town.

They are far from the only members of the legal fraternities who have been targeted by Cape Town’s criminal underworld.

In a segment from a September show uploaded to YouTube this week, Carte Blanche took a closer look at what it says has become “an occupational hazard for members of Cape Town’s legal fraternity”:

[source:carteblanche]

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