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By Sisonke Mlamla 
10h ago
Cape Town: Municipalities in Cape Town have been turned into death camps, according to Fransina Lukas, Provincial President of the Community Police Forum (CPF).
She was responding to the heartbreaking news of another mass shooting at a home, this time in Gugulethu on Monday afternoon.
Now police are hoping to find clues to the NY78 shooting that left seven people dead: four men and three women in their 30s and 40s.
Lukas said that the trend must not be allowed to continue and that the police must clamp down and work with the community to stop the killings.
The Gugulethu shooting comes just over a month after six people were shot and killed at Site C, Khayelitsha, in what is believed to be a gang war for extortion control.
Police spokesman Novela Potelwa added that two other victims were injured in yesterday’s shooting. They were taken to a medical facility, he said. He said the details were still incomplete. “An update will be provided in due course.”
While organized crime detectives and pathology services were still busy combing the scene, hundreds of anguished community members gathered on the street when relatives of those who had been shot arrived.
Mbulelo Hlotywa, the uncle of one of the victims, Lumka Hlotywa, said it was heartbreaking to learn of such incidents at her mother’s home. “I’ll never be okay until I die.”
Hlotywa said he was informed by Lumka’s father when he arrived home. “Then we arrived at the place to identify the body. To our surprise, many corpses were seen. “
Vincent Domingo, president of the Gugulethu Development Forum (GDF), said that municipalities were under siege and that communities were living in fear.
“All of us are not sure. Our streets are not safe, criminal elements dominate our communities. We have no voice because our own government cannot protect us. It is time for our people to take a stand, we have to come together and speak with one voice. Let’s take back our streets and stop living in fear, ”said Domingo.
“What is sadder is that we have spent millions of rand on the so-called security plan, but crime and murder have gotten worse.”
He said that while they asked community members to organize and work closely with law enforcement to improve security in their communities, “we also ask the Western Cape government to explain where the millions spent on the plan went. of security”.
He said the police should leave no stone unturned when investigating the killings, so they can bring the perpetrators to account.
Anyone with information can contact the nearest police station or Crime Stop at 086 00 10111.
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