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43 killed in another bloody weekend in Cape Town – 25 were shot and 12 stabbed

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Another bloody weekend in Cape Town saw 43 people being murdered, Premier Alan Winde confirmed on Monday.

Provincial forensics services recorded these numbers between Friday night and Monday morning.

“[The] SAPS started running a national joint operational and intelligence structure operation on Thursday night in the areas of Philippi, Steenberg and Delft,” Winde said in a statement.

“We welcome the fact that 143 arrests were made, and guns and drugs confiscated, but despite this heavier police presence, and [Police] Minister Bheki Cele himself going out on patrol, 43 people were still murdered – some of them in the very areas where the operation was held.”

SANDF soldiers started arriving in Cape Town on Monday before hitting the streets to assist SAPS in a clamp-down on gang-related crime.

The highest number of murders were recorded in Mfuleni, where six people were killed.

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Fights between gangs are getting worse:- Gang ‘bloodbath’ claims 14 lives in 24 hours on Cape Flats

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Cape Town – Mayco member for safety and security JP Smith has called on the city’s Special Investigative Unit to urgently engage with the police’s Anti Gang Unit following a rise in gang violence in which 14 people were killed in 24 hours.

The murders of mostly alleged teenage gangsters were reported in KTC in Gugulethu, Blikkiesdorp and Athlone on Thursday night and early Friday.

Lumkile Msila, a member of the SA National Civic Organisation, said: “We have set up a meeting with SAPS, neighborhood watch and street committees for next week to figure out how we can put an end to this bloodbath.

“We are forced to take a stand on the matter as some of the boys from the KTC area allegedly went over into Gugulethu and smashed windows of certain homes of their rivals. We met with their fathers at the police station and they vowed to do something about the problem if we don’t,” Msila said.

Smith said he was particularly concerne
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