Cape Town shooting a setback for gang peace
2012-08-21 10:33
Cape Town - The shooting and killing of four youths in Ravensmead, Cape Town, is a setback for efforts to bring peace between rival gangs, it was reported on Tuesday.
Western Cape Outreach spokesperson Ivan Waldeck told the Cape Times that members of rival gangs, the 26s and 28s, had clashed in the area recently.
"We've been working for more than a year with the 26s and 28s and there has been peace from December to April," he said.
"We do not condone violence and killing, and as an organisation brokering peace we are still trying to find out what has happened."
Warrant Officer November Filander said the four men were all shot in the head in a wendy house on Monday morning.
The men were Marcelino Ludick, 17, Jaydene Paul, 17, Farodene van Niekerk, 19, and Bradley Kaffers, 21.
Ludick's mom, Nolene, told the newspaper her son stopped attending John Ramsey High School in Bishop Lavis last year as he feared gangsters there.
"I took him out and since then he has not gone back to school."
- SAPA
