{"id":48446,"date":"2023-10-16T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/we-are-being-held-hostage-manenberg-residents-stay-indoors-during-bloody-weekend-20231016\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T21:35:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T19:35:58","slug":"we-are-being-held-hostage-manenberg-residents-stay-indoors-during-bloody-weekend-20231016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/we-are-being-held-hostage-manenberg-residents-stay-indoors-during-bloody-weekend-20231016\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We are being held hostage\u2019: Manenberg residents stay indoors during bloody weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Six people were killed, and another three left wounded in a bloody weekend in the Manenber precinct in Cape Town.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cAll hell broke loose\u201d with warring gangs opening fire on one another.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tensions had been running high for a number of weeks, said officials, and reached a boiling point over the weekend.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Video footage of the shootings first came to light around the same time the National Police Minister Bheki Cele was in Hanover Park launching the police\u2019s national festive season safety operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"contentpasted0\">Manenberg<br>\nresidents in some pockets of the area are fearing for their lives as \u201call hell<br>\nbroke loose\u201d with warring gangs opening fire on one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"contentpasted0\">This<br>\nas six people were killed, and another three left wounded in a bloody weekend<br>\nin the precinct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"contentpasted0\">Tensions<br>\nhad been running high for a number of weeks, said officials, and reached a<br>\nboiling point over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"contentpasted0\">Video<br>\nfootage of the shootings first came to light last week, around the same time<br>\nthe National Police Minister Bheki Cele was in Hanover Park launching the<br>\npolice\u2019s national festive season safety operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"contentpasted0\">On<br>\nSaturday 14 October gang violence was at a high as Manenberg residents were<br>\ntrapped in their homes&nbsp; with The Americans, Clever kids and Hard Livings<br>\ngangs opening indiscriminate gunfire on one another, starting a gang conflict<br>\nthat left three people dead and three seriously wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"contentpasted0\">By<br>\nMonday six murders were opened for investigation, with three additional<br>\nattempted murders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"contentpasted0\">\u201cAt<br>\n02:00 a woman was shot and killed in Greatfish Road, then all hell broke loose<br>\nas the community was awoken by gunfire,\u201d says Manenberg police spokesperson<br>\nCapt Ian Bennett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"contentpasted0\">\u201cAt<br>\n05:45 a 30-year-old man was gunned down and killed in Scheldt Road , and a<br>\n46-year-old woman and 40-year-old man were injured. It is alleged members of an<br>\nopposing gang attacked the house in search of their intended target; as he was<br>\nnot there they shot up the house injuring the occupants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"contentpasted0\">By<br>\n06:00 a 26-year-old man was left dead in Sabie Road after sustaining a gunshot<br>\nwound to his upper body, and at 06:45 a 59-year-old woman was caught in the<br>\ncrossfire as she went to see what was happening. She was shot in the upper leg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"contentpasted0\"><strong>Also read:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/news24\/community-newspaper\/city-vision\/three-people-killed-in-a-shooting-in-nyanga-cape-town-amid-polices-festive-season-safety-initiative-just-launched-20231016\">Three people killed in a shooting in Nyanga, Cape Town amid police\u2019s Festive Season Safety initiative just launched<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"contentpasted0\">\u201cDuring<br>\nthis gang conflict two men were taken to the Heideveld Emergency Medical<br>\nFacility, where one man succumbed to his fatal gunshot wounds,\u201d Bennett<br>\nsaid. \u201cThe other man remains in critical condition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"contentpasted0\">Residents<br>\nwho reached out to&nbsp;<em>People\u2019s Post<\/em>&nbsp;say they are still held hostage in their<br>\nhomes unable to go to work or send their children to school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"contentpasted0\">\u201cWe<br>\ncannot move or we risk dying,\u201d one mother said. \u201cThere is nothing we<br>\ncan do. We must stay in our houses. This is very bad. You hear gunshots any<br>\ntime and must run for cover.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"contentpasted0\">Vernon<br>\nVisagie, Community Police Forum chair confirmed the area remained<br>\nvolatile.&nbsp;Police are calling on anyone with information on these murders<br>\nand attempted murders to call Manenberg Police 0216999400 or crime stop<br>\n0860010111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manenberg residents in some pockets of the area are fearing for their lives as \u201call hell broke loose\u201d with warring gangs opening fire on one another. 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