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"contents": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gunmen have struck again at the Symphony Way Housing Project site, this time leaving a security guard dead and her male colleague wounded. The shootings come barely a week after the City of Cape Town put up a R5,000 reward in response to the wounding of three workers at the site. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The latest victims were guarding the R500-million City project on Thursday when the gunmen fired at them several times. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their motive is unknown, but mayoral committee member for human settlements Malusi Booi has previously said attacks on this and other building sites in the metro are linked to extortion. A day after the earlier attack, the site was </span><a href=\"https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2023-02-12-mafia-imperil-r1bn-cape-town-housing-projects/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">petrol-bombed</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Thursday, construction was immediately halted following the shooting while police combed the site for leads. Ward councillor Michelle Adonis said trucks and tractors stopped immediately and workers congregated in a safe area.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Police spokesperson Warrant Officer Joseph Swartbooi said that following the shootings police found the body of the 48-year-old guard inside a vehicle on the corner of Magalies and Mandara streets at N2 Gateway. She had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was declared dead on the scene.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her colleague had been taken to a nearby hospital.</span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The killers fled and police are investigating cases of murder and attempted murder, Swartbooi added. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stop on 08600 10111.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Sunday, the City said housing projects worth about R1-billion were under threat as </span><a href=\"https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2023-02-12-r1bn-housing-projects-under-threat-from-mafia-in-cape-town/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mafia-like gangs</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and extortionists repeatedly vandalise or destroy homes being built for thousands of beneficiaries across the city.</span>\r\n\r\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Daily Maverick:</span><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-02-05-cape-town-tops-up-security-budget-by-r15m-to-protect-housing-construction-sites-from-gangsters/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> “</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Extortion by gangs is hampering the delivery of housing projects in Cape Town, with Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis warning against a potential ‘mafia state’ if it is not reined in</span></i></a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">”</span></i>\r\n<h4>Petrified</h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Wednesday, when </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily Maverick</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> visited the site to investigate reports of extortion, the guards on duty appeared petrified. One said: “Please don’t show the logo of our company. Take the pictures from our back. We come to work to earn a salary so that we can put food on the table.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We know it is dangerous working at the site because we don’t know when the shootings start. None of us know if we are going to make it to our home at the end of the day.”</span>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n<strong>Visit <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=in_article_link&utm_campaign=homepage\"><em>Daily Maverick's</em> home page</a> for more news, analysis and investigations</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local ward councillor Michelle Adonis said she was shocked by news of the latest shootings.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Why the shootings? How many people are going to be killed? It is best to close down the site so that things can cool down. It is important that police find out who is behind these killings and arrest them,” she said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Booi has said City housing projects across the metro face extortion, criminality, vandalism, community unrest and unlawful occupation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We can see many such incidents in communities across the metro where we are rolling out these critical human settlements projects, but many are marred by increasing forceful community interference or intimidation, extortion and gangsterism, the threat of unlawful occupation and general theft,” Booi said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delft Community Policing Forum chairperson Charles George condemned the incident: “It seems that the extortionists want their money. It is best to temporarily close the site, open a satellite police station at the site and then resume the work.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shortly before the shooting, Booi urged residents of areas in which there are housing projects to approach him if they can help to ensure the projects remain on track. </span><b>DM</b>\r\n\r\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a developing story. </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily Maverick</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will update this article when further information becomes available.</span></i>",
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