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extortion
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Delivery Drivers In The Crosshairs Of Extortion In Cape Town’s Suburbs – Woolies Dash Makes Difficult Decision
24 Oct 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
“You can’t trust anyone these days,” one driver confessed. “We’ve seen people get killed for refusing to pay these protection fees. No one wants to be the next victim.”
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Eighth Cop Caught In Milnerton Chinese Shop Extortion Scandal
09 Oct 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The allegations revolve around two shops owned by Chinese nationals, where the officers allegedly extorted an undisclosed amount of cash, reportedly demanding it as “protection money.”
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Kidnapping Horror In Cape Winelands As Elderly Briton And Young Woman Held For Ransom
08 Oct 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
These two alarming kidnapping-for-ransom cases have rocked the Western Cape’s scenic winelands region.
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Cape Town Cop Fired After Shocking Kidnapping And Extortion Scandal Involving Thai Nationals
16 Sep 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The vrot cop is alleged to have been involved in the kidnapping of two Thai nationals in Mowbray who were taken while leaving work on December 22, 2022.
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Minister Of Police Declares War On Extortionists Who “Parade As Armies Of Murderous Parasites”
04 Sep 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
“Most of them (extortionists) are individuals who do not want to work but rather choose to parade as armies of murderous parasites that must be fought and rejected by society as a whole.”
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‘Pay Up Or Die!’ − The Eastern Cape Has Become A Play Ground For Extortion Syndicates
22 Aug 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Businesses and schools in the Eastern Cape town of Mthatha are increasingly being forced to close doors due to the extortion syndicates treating their hard work like playthings.
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Property Groups Are Joining Cape Town’s Fight Against Construction Mafias
06 Aug 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Atterbury and Old Mutual Properties joined the city on Monday to declare that they would join forces to eradicate the scourge.
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Long Street’s Yellow Beerhouse To Turn Its Taps Off After This Weekend
02 Aug 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Owner Randolf Jorberg has decided to call it quits after receiving death threats following his ‘rallying call to other business owners in the CBD to band together against “extortion, intimidation and racketeering’.
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Cape Town Gambler Fakes Own Kidnapping To Extort Money From Family
12 Jan 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
According to reports the man, a foreign national, “needed money for gambling”.
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UPDATE: It’s Was A Skit! – Man ‘Cleans’ Porsche, Then Stabs Tyre When Owner Refuses Tip In Cape Town [Video]
05 Dec 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Turns out no Porsches were harmed in the making of this skit that fooled everyone (including us).
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Cops Bust Hijackers Who Took Victims On Nightmare Road Trip From Gansbaai To Bredasdorp
19 Oct 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
The kidnappers, aged 24 and 30, took the terrified pair on a 77km road trip after hijacking them in Gansbaai.
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Group Of Unknown Men Cause Havoc At Sea Point Restaurant
10 Oct 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
“We seem to have daily incidents in the area. I am amazed at how complacent we as a community have become. People have crime fatigue.”
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Cape Crooks Are Extorting Paramedics Now [Audio]
26 May 2021 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Gangs operating under names like the Guptas and Boko Harams continue to demand “protection fees” from traders. They’ve now widened the net to include paramedics.
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Threats, Taxis, And Nando’s – When Your Cyberbully Turns Out To Be Your Durban Neighbour
16 Feb 2021 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Durban man spent months being targetted by an anonymous online harasser, who made his daily life hell. Turns out his tormentor wasn’t very far away.
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The Guptas And Boko Harams – Cape Extortion Gangs Widen Their Net
18 Dec 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Gangs carrying out violent extortion rackets across the Cape Metro municipality, who go by names like the Guptas and Boko Harams, are spreading their tentacles.
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Long Street Business Owners Are Still Living In Fear [Video]
18 Nov 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Extortion is alive and well in the Cape Town CBD, and business owners who speak out often find themselves on the receiving end of death threats and violence.
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“Pay Up Or Else” – Even Cape Town’s Coffee Shops Aren’t Safe From Underworld Extortion
08 Sep 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Even Cape Town’s underworld syndicates are allegedly struggling, and the men in balaclavas are looking for new revenue streams.
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Turns Out SA’s Lockdown Is Perfect For ‘Sextortion’
21 Apr 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hold your friends close (metaphorically speaking), and your nudes closer.
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Tuesday Morning Spice
26 Mar 2019 by Kiernan / No Comments
Avenatti extortion backfires. British Airways blunder. Shaun Abrahams’ new job. Apple TV, gaming and credit card. DA poster vandalism reward. Cape Town’s hottest new bar. Schumacher’s son F1 test. Ed Sheeran bullied.
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ATT Cape Town: Don’t Trust Your Local Brothel Owners
24 May 2017 by Sloane Hunter / 1 Comment
A brothel is the kind of transaction you don’t want showing up in your bank statements, and worse still is video of you caught in the act.
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Cosby’s Lawyer Fights Back With Extortion Claims
05 Dec 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Bill Cosby. I’m running out of things to say about him because he is literally doing nothing about anything which makes it hard to write about him. So maybe he should do something…
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