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How Cape Town’s bloody gang scourge creeps into the city amid surge in deadly shootings

How Cape Town’s bloody gang scourge creeps into the city amid surge in deadly shootings
Exploring and exposing Cape Town’s criminal landscape, Daily Maverick’s Caryn Dolley details the insidious expansion of the city’s notorious gangs out of their historic strongholds.

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While gang shootings seem to have recently surged across various suburbs in the Mother City, two key trials are developing which point to the different types of crime that have gripped Cape Town over the past seven or so years. 

Nafiz Modack is among the main accused in the one trial. Mark Lifman and Jerome “Donkie” Booysen are among the main accused in the other. They have all pleaded not guilty. 

Various crimes, which form the basis of those trials, and which underpin other court cases, show how lawbreaking has stretched from historic gang strongholds right into the city centre. 

These prove that crime has no boundaries. DM

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