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"contents": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet another court case involving organised crime has started up in Cape Town – and it seems to extend into other matters linked to gang violence that stretch across the city and go back several years.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In one of the latest cases, Colin Booysen, the brother of alleged Sexy Boys gang boss Jerome Booysen, was arrested on Tuesday, 9 July.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He appeared in the Bellville Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday along with Sillico Oliphant, Herbert Zoutman and Moegamat Faizel Abrahams.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A fifth man was </span><a href=\"https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/hawks-reel-in-alleged-cape-town-underworld-figure-colin-booysen-for-drug-turf-murders-20240710\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reportedly detained in Gauteng</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the same case and more arrests are expected.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week the Western Cape’s National Prosecuting Authority confirmed to Daily Maverick that the four who appeared on Wednesday would be back in court on 16 July.</span>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/powerpoint-presentation-597/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2269651\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/LIGHT-BLUE-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1792\" height=\"1116\" /></a> <em>Colin Booysen, the brother of alleged Sexy Boys gang boss Jerome Booysen, was arrested on Tuesday, 9 July 2024. 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This is because Jerome Booysen is now among a group on trial in the Western Cape High Court for the Wainstein murder – he has pleaded not guilty.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stevens would likely have been a co-accused in that trial had he not been killed. </span>\r\n\r\n<b>Read more in Daily Maverick:</b> <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-01-10-charges-against-murdered-steroid-king-reveal-a-global-web-of-crime-cases/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charges against murdered ‘Steroid King’ reveal a global web of crime cases</span></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here’s a timeline of the murders mentioned so far: </span>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Marwaan Desai and Shameem Mohammed were murdered in Cape Town in June 2017 and, as of this week, Colin Booysen is among the group charged in this case.</li>\r\n \t<li>Brian Wainstein was killed in Cape Town in August 2017 and Jerome Booysen is now among those on trial in connection with this.</li>\r\n \t<li>Mark Groenewald was killed in Gauteng in December 2017 and, as of this week, Colin Booysen is among the men charged in this case.</li>\r\n \t<li>Groenewald’s brother Sebastian was murdered in Gauteng in April 2020. (It’s not immediately clear what happened with this case.)</li>\r\n \t<li>Charl Kinnear was assassinated in Cape Town in September 2020, and Nafiz Modack, once a co-accused alongside Colin Booysen in an extortion-related case that ended in acquittals, is now among those on trial in connection with the murder.</li>\r\n \t<li>William Stevens was fatally shot in Cape Town in February 2021 and <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-06-18-three-arrested-for-cape-town-shootings-linked-to-gang-violence/\">two suspects were arrested</a>in connection with this last month.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<b>Read more in Daily Maverick:</b> <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-06-30-how-cops-are-dismantling-the-firms-gang-empire/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How cops are dismantling The Firm’s ‘gang empire’ and developing a mega court case</span></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those two suspects, Jonathan Cloete and Michael Morris, face charges relating to Stevens’ murder in a growing case that involves alleged 28s and The Firm gang boss, Ralph Stanfield.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The murders and related arrests thus reveal a thread running through the organised crime court cases proceeding in Cape Town.</span>\r\n<h4><b>Booysen brothers</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for Colin Booysen, aside from murder charges, the case in which he is accused includes counts relating to drug trafficking in Gauteng and the Western Cape.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, apart from the Wainstein murder trial, Jerome Booysen is also an accused in a matter in which the state alleges he was the head of the Jerome Booysen Enterprise that was involved in dealing in Mandrax.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both Jerome and Colin Booysen have previously faced other criminal accusations. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this journalist’s book, </span><a href=\"https://jonathanball.co.za/component/virtuemart/the-enforcers-inside-cape-towns-deadly-nightclub-battles\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Enforcers: Inside Cape Town’s deadly nightclub battles</span></i></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, some of their history is detailed.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A rift reportedly developed between Colin and Jerome Booysen around 2016.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another Booysen brother, Michael, was convicted of a murder that took place in 1999. 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Colin Booysen, the brother of alleged Sexy Boys gang boss Jerome Booysen, was arrested on Tuesday, 9 July 2024. (Screengrab: Youtube)