Community Safety MEC Albert Fritz and provincial police commissioner Yolisa Matakata are meeting tomorrow to urgently discuss a spate of mass shootings that has rocked the city.
Among others they will talk about the “serious issue” of gangsterism and the spate of shooting incidents that occurred over the past weeks.
Mass shootings have been recorded in Hanover Park, Joe Slovo (Milnerton), Ravensmead, Philippi, Nyanga and Khayelitsha.
Fritz said the incidents were completely unacceptable, saying skollies and criminal elements cannot be allowed to continue exploiting and terrorising communities.
Five people were shot and killed last Thursday evening in Joe Slovo allegedly by six suspects.
Tyrone Philander, 32, a brother of retired Proteas cricketer Vernon Philander, was shot and killed in Ravensmead on Wednesday.
A 28-year-old man was shot and killed in Hanover Park while seven others were injured and taken to hospital in Galilee Court.
On the same day Bongani Makasi, a brother of the Nyanga Community police forum chairperson Martin Makasi was shot and killed in Nyanga a week ago.
Six people were shot dead and four more wounded in a mass shooting in Solomon Tshuku Road, Site C, in Khayelitsha, also a week ago.
Police spokesperson Novela Potelwa said they are looking into the matter to establish a pattern: “Once all factors have been determined, the mobilisation and deployment of the appropriate resources will unfold.”
Community Policing Forum (CPF) provincial chairperson Francina Lukas said the police must pull up their socks, the Cape Argus reports.
“This seems like a continuous war in townships where gangsters fight over territory and protection money.
“This has gone too far and too many lives have been lost in the process.”
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