From left: Nafiz Modack. (Photo: Gallo Images / Die Burger / Jaco Marais) | Investigators inspect the scene of the 2018 murder in Cape Town of advocate Pete Mihalik. (Photo: Gallo Images / Netwerk24 / Adrian de Kock) | Police search a section of Argyle Street, Woodstock for clues after the arrest of two suspects. (Photo: Jaco Marais) | Alleged Sexy Boys gang leader Jerome Booysen. (Photo: Gallo Images / Die Burger / Adrian de Kock) 
While gang shootings seem to have recently surged across various suburbs in the Mother City, two key trials are developing which point to the different types of crime that have gripped Cape Town over the past seven or so years.
Nafiz Modack is among the main accused in the one trial. Mark Lifman and Jerome “Donkie” Booysen are among the main accused in the other. They have all pleaded not guilty.
Various crimes, which form the basis of those trials, and which underpin other court cases, show how lawbreaking has stretched from historic gang strongholds right into the city centre.
These prove that crime has no boundaries. DM