On Sunday, one day ahead of Police Minister Bheki Cele’s annual countrywide Safer Festive Season Inspection Tour, the minister said: “I’m sure the police will give criminals a hard time and squeeze out the space for anyone with criminal intent.”
Veronique Jacobs was shot dead in front of her six-year-old daughter on Sunday night in Citrus Street, Bonteheuwel, Cape Town. “The woman collapsed. The little girl started screaming hysterically. Along with my two daughters, we ran and picked up the little girl.”: “My daughter wasn’t killed in a crossfire, because they knew her.”
A 76-year-old woman said: “Why must we be scared of teenagers running around with guns in the streets? If we, as a community, take the law into our own hands, then we are arrested.