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.
Crime fighters have even raised the alarm over the use of hectic drugs among children on the Cape Flats after an eight-year-old boy was found high on four types of drugs including cocaine.
Over 10 months the police made at least 17 arrests that extended into the restaurant, construction and private business sector, and even Cape Town’s municipality, all with one criminally-flexible couple at the centre.
The Gauteng police have debunked social media claims of 13 gang-related murders, confirming that only three murders occurred in Westbury and Sophiatown.
Children pay the ultimate price of lawlessness in the Cape Flats – as victims, but most tragically, as perpetrators, too.
The report highlighted that “gangsterism in South Africa is inextricably caught up in issues of governance”.
Seven suspects are facing first-degree murder and kidnapping charges in connection with the death of 16-year-old Preston Lord. One of the suspects was allegedly taken to a cabin for his hands to heal.
A total of 250 murders from this period were gang-related, as well as 351 cases of attempted murder and 15 cases of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
Authorities were forced to deploy helicopters and other extra security after the nephew of a criminal leader of the largest militia group in the state was gunned down.
A video has been released that shows a ‘kamikaze’ drone fitted with explosives getting blown to bits on the roof of an Ecuador prison that holds some of the country’s worst druglords.
Authorities have warned that an aggressive approach is needed to abate drug houses in the region, as it is ludicrous that drug peddling is outweighing education.
A Cape Flats resident mocked the new tech-driven interventions saying “It’s a bloody joke, to be honest”.
Lionel Messi received an ominous threat from unknown gunmen when they opened fire on his in-laws’ supermarket in his hometown of Rosario.
On Friday, El Salvador’s government moved thousands of suspected gang members to its new mega-prison in a crime crackdown.
On Thursday morning, the streets of Bryanston turned into a crime scene as a multi-disciplinary team descended to arrest an alleged Israeli gang boss and seven others.
Law enforcement is already overwhelmed when it comes to dealing with the scourge of gangsterism in Cape Town and the Western Cape at large.
Gangsters have been making death threats against workers employed to fix the railway line in Bonteheuwel.
Large parts of the Cape Flats have seen “all-out war” for months as gangs battle for control of the streets.
I don’t imagine spending time inside a Central American prison, some of which are reserved solely for members of MS-13, is for the faint of heart.
The situation is so bad that police have labelled the area a “red zone”, meaning ambulances cannot freely travel without a police escort.
Reformed gang leader Turner Adams, who was once Kaptein of commanders of the 28s Military Wing inside prison, takes Mace into Lavender Hill and other areas many Capetonians don’t often visit.
A video filmed on Thursday has once again shone a light on how Manenberg residents are “being held hostage and live in fear”.
Jeremy Vearey is well versed in the topic due to being held in the B Section of Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison, where the gangs’ leaders were also kept.
Yesterday afternoon, Hanover Park residents hid in fear as gunshots rang out.
The violence has become so normalised that bodies sometimes lie on the street outside schools, and children can differentiate between different types of gunfire.
At the trial of 11 suspects this week, Dutch public prosecutor Koos Plooij told a court of the “repulsive” and “hell-like” chamber they planned to use on rival gang members.
The Hard Livings gang, which has an extensive footprint across Cape Town, has now muscled in on the turf of the Sydenham Heights Boys.
Local research has shown that our extensive lockdowns have actually helped Cape gang kingpins cement their power.
The rumoured leader of the notorious “Boko Haram” gang was murdered earlier this week, with residents dubbing the man responsible for his killing “John Wick”.
The spiralling bank heist situation in Brazil is being referred to as the “Novo Cangaço” (“New Struggle”) with the degree of violence approaching a “Mad Max level”.