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Cape Town gangs

‘We are completely broken,’ say parents of five-year-old killed in gang crossfire

Maverick News

‘We are completely broken,’ say parents of five-year-old killed in gang crossfire

by: Hazel Friedman

Watch – How 750m in Cape Town’s city centre points to South Africa’s expansive extortion problem

Maverick News

Watch – How 750m in Cape Town’s city centre points to South Africa’s expansive extortion problem

by: Caryn Dolley

Watch – Man Alone: Mandela’s top cop – exposing South Africa’s ceaseless sabotage

Maverick News

Watch – Man Alone: Mandela’s top cop – exposing South Africa’s ceaseless sabotage

by: Caryn Dolley

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

Maverick News

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

by: Caryn Dolley

‘Steroid King’ Brian Wainstein murder — two alleged underworld figures plead not guilty

South Africa, Maverick News

‘Steroid King’ Brian Wainstein murder — two alleged underworld figures plead not guilty

by: Vincent Cruywagen

Pagad hit squads decimated gangs operating on the Cape Flats in the late 1990s

Maverick News

Pagad hit squads decimated gangs operating on the Cape Flats in the late 1990s

by: Mark Shaw

The wild, wild Cape – Shooting of a ‘rival’s’ son plus ‘Nafiz Modack enterprise’s’ 3,000 charges

South Africa, Maverick News

The wild, wild Cape – Shooting of a ‘rival’s’ son plus ‘Nafiz Modack enterprise’s’ 3,000 charges

by: Caryn Dolley

Are our numbers up? Cape Town’s 26, 27 and 28s gangs up the ante by becoming tech-savvy

South Africa, DM168

Are our numbers up? Cape Town’s 26, 27 and 28s gangs up the ante by becoming tech-savvy

by: Daily Maverick Reporter

Months of elevated gang violence at crisis levels in Cape Town’s Grassy Park and surrounds

South Africa

Months of elevated gang violence at crisis levels in Cape Town’s Grassy Park and surrounds

by: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Cape of Fear: ‘Nobody dares to stand by a window when gangs are involved in a shoot-out’

South Africa, Maverick Citizen

Cape of Fear: ‘Nobody dares to stand by a window when gangs are involved in a shoot-out’

by: Vincent Cruywagen

Nafiz Modack and Zane Kilian bail hearing postponed after magistrate wounded in shooting

South Africa, Maverick Citizen

Nafiz Modack and Zane Kilian bail hearing postponed after magistrate wounded in shooting

by: Vincent Cruywagen

Mother of Terrible Josters gang member gunned down in Elsies River

South Africa, Maverick Citizen

Mother of Terrible Josters gang member gunned down in Elsies River

by: Vincent Cruywagen