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"description": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three suspects have been arrested in Cape Town and face murder and attempted murder charges that could shed light on several shootings in the city.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jonathan Cloete, Shakeel Pelston and Abraham Wilson appeared in the Cape Town Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.</span>\r\n\r\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily Maverick</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> understands the case may expose details about the activities of various gangs, including The Firm, a gangster group with a strong 28s membership.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A September 2020 Western Cape High Court </span><a href=\"https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAWCHC/2020/105.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">judgment linked to a double murder</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> referenced the 28s gang and several individuals, including someone named Abraham Wilson.</span>\r\n\r\n<b>Read more in Daily Maverick:</b> <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-10-12-the-firm-gang-with-deep-drug-roots-surfaces-in-28s-accused-ralph-stanfields-case/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Firm: Gang with ‘deep drug roots’ surfaces in 28s accused Ralph Stanfield’s case</span></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While it was not immediately clear if that was the same person who appeared in the Cape Town Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, the judgment said: “Abraham Wilson is affiliated to the 28s which is known as ‘The Firm’ in … and outside of prison.”</span>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://www.netwerk24.com/netwerk24/nuus/hof/3-bendeleiers-van-the-firm-staan-op-21-aanklagte-tereg-20240618\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Netwerk24</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Tuesday reported</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that during proceedings in the case involving Cloete, Pelston and Wilson, it emerged that the matter may be added to that against alleged 28s gang boss Ralph Stanfield, his wife, Nicole Johnson, and three others in a car theft case that has been running since September 2023.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In that case, a police investigator alleged that Stanfield headed The Firm.</span>\r\n<h4><b>Criminal charges</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cloete, Pelston and Wilson face accusations linked to incidents that appear to be part of a web of connected violence involving figures accused in major criminal trials in the Western Cape.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Western Cape National Prosecuting Authority on Tuesday confirmed that Cloete, Pelston and Wilson appeared in court on charges including murder, attempted murder and the illegal possession of firearms.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The matter is expected back in court on 25 June. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The charges against the trio are linked to incidents including the September 2021 murder of Faizel Adams, who was a police officer based at Parliament.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He had been visiting a cousin in Cape Town’s northern suburbs when he was fatally shot.</span>\r\n\r\n<b>Read more in Daily Maverick:</b> <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-05-07-the-wild-wild-cape-shooting-of-a-rivals-son-plus-nafiz-modack-enterprises-3000-charges/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The wild, wild Cape – Shooting of a ‘rival’s’ son plus ‘Nafiz Modack enterprise’s’ 3,000 charges</span></a>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1679830\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"wp-image-1679830 size-full\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Caryn-Shootings-organised-crime-Cape-07.05.2023.jpg\" alt=\"three arrested cape town shootings gang violence\" width=\"720\" height=\"452\" /> <em>Joel Booysen. (Photo: TikTok)</em>[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The charges also relate to the attempted killing of Joel Booysen, the son of alleged Sexy Boys gang leader </span><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-04-22-steroid-king-brian-wainstein-murder-two-alleged-underworld-figures-plead-not-guilty/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jerome “Donkie” Booysen</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who is being tried in the Western Cape High Court for murder.</span>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">One person shot in the the leg ran inside the centre <a href=\"https://t.co/0txwFm3uo6\">pic.twitter.com/0txwFm3uo6</a></p>\r\n— ?Tanswell Aspeling (@Mutaaz_Aspeling) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Mutaaz_Aspeling/status/1654453440783736833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2023</a></blockquote>\r\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In May last year, </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily Maverick</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reported that Joel Booysen was wounded in a shooting in the Cape Town suburb of Green Point.</span>\r\n<h4><b>Wainstein murder</b></h4>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2237329\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-2237329\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ED_274859.jpg\" alt=\"three arrested cape town shootings gang violence\" width=\"720\" height=\"455\" /> <em>William ‘Red’ Stevens. (Photo: Gallo Images / Die Burger / Adrian de Kock)</em>[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charges against the trio are also linked to the murder of William “Red” Stevens.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stevens, reputed to have been a 27s leader, was shot outside his home in the Cape Town suburb of Kraaifontein in February 2021.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the time, he was accused in a case focused on the murder of Brian Wainstein, an international steroid smuggler who was killed in his home in the upmarket Cape Town suburb of Constantia in August 2017.</span>\r\n\r\n<b>Read more in Daily Maverick:</b> <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-02-03-underworld-suspect-shot-dead-one-week-before-scheduled-court-appearance-in-cape-town-for-murder/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Underworld suspect shot dead – one week before scheduled court appearance in Cape Town for murder</span></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is where Jerome Booysen fits in.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is </span><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-04-23-steroid-king-murder-trial-hears-how-crooked-cop-protected-violent-debt-collector/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on trial for Wainstein’s murder</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> along with others including Mark Lifman and Andre Naude.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their names previously cropped up in nightclub security matters in Cape Town.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There have been several other high-profile shootings in and around the city.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arrests are yet to be made in some of those cases.</span>\r\n<h4><b>‘Unsolved’ case and developing trials</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A pivotal incident was the 2011 murder</span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of rumoured intelligence operative and nightclub security kingpin </span><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-11-27-hit-on-a-hitman-how-the-ernest-solomon-murder-may-affect-two-unsolved-underworld-killings/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cyril Beeka</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beeka was associated with, among other people, Nafiz Modack, who was also involved in private security and who police investigators allege is a rival of Lifman and Jerome Booysen.</span>\r\n\r\n<b>Read more in Daily Maverick:</b> <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-06-11-dangerous-deja-vu-another-friday-another-gang-shooting-as-organised-crime-grips-cape-town/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dangerous déjà vu: Another Friday, another ‘gang shooting’ as organised crime grips Cape Town</span></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During a court case in 2012, </span><a href=\"https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/underworld-in-the-dock-1228355\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a Hawks officer testified</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that Booysen was viewed as a suspect in Beeka’s murder.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nothing ever came of that and Booysen was not charged in that case.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Modack, meanwhile, like Lifman and Co, is also on trial in the Western Cape High Court.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He faces several criminal charges, including over the 2020 assassination of</span><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-06-06-nafiz-modack-allegedly-tried-to-bribe-top-cops-in-his-own-undercover-operation-court-hears/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> police detective Charl Kinnear</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kinnear had been investigating organised crime cases and suspects, including Modack. </span><b>DM</b>",
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Joel Booysen. (Photo: TikTok)
William ‘Red’ Stevens. (Photo: Gallo Images / Die Burger / Adrian de Kock)