CAPE TOWN – Two people have been shot and killed while four others were wounded in yet another spate of violence crippling the Cape Flats.

The latest mass shooting, in Leiden, Delft, which occurred last night (10 April) at around 22:45 in Leiden Avenue, left a 38-year-old woman and a 12-year-old boy with fatal injuries while two men and two women aged between 19 and 61 were left wounded.

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Sgt Wesley Twigg, provincial police spokesperson, said Delft police arrived on the scene and found the victims with gunshot wounds to their bodies.

The injured victims have been transported to hospital for medical treatment.

“According to reports, an unknown male knocked on the door and when the door was opened, the suspect opened fire on the victims and fled the scene. The motive for the attack is yet to be determined,” explained Twigg.

Twigg said two counts of murder and four counts of attempted murder are being investigated.

Anyone with any information is requested to contact Crime Stop on 08600 10111 or use the mobile application MySAPS anonymously.

Ian Cameron, National Assembly Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police has said that the deployment of the South African Defence Force (SANDF) to the Cape Flats has not given the desired results, as 36 people died between 30 March and 5 April. He added that the response to violence cannot only just be about visibility.

• TygerBurger reported on five different triple or double murders in the first three weeks of March, stretching across communities such as Kraaifontein, Delft, Mfuleni, Nyanga, Gugulethu and Mitchell’s Plain. Almost all the murders are alleged gangland killings, with retaliation attacks being commonplace. Third quarter crime statistics (covering October to December 2025) showed 257 out of 276 murders described as “gang-related” occurred in the Western Cape. It is also the province with the second highest murder ratio per 100 000 (15.2). In the third quarter nationally 6 351 people were killed, with 1 198 occurring in the Western Cape. Six of the top 10 stations with the highest murder counts in the country are in Cape Town communities. Those stations are Mfuleni, Nyanga, Delft, Gugulethu, Khayelitsha and Kraaifontein.

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