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title: "How Cape Town’s bloody gang scourge creeps into the city amid surge in deadly shootings"
description: "Exploring and exposing Cape Town’s criminal landscape, Daily Maverick’s Caryn Dolley details the insidious expansion of the city’s notorious gangs out of their historic strongholds."
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published: "2024-07-15T19:47:50"
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# How Cape Town’s bloody gang scourge creeps into the city amid surge in deadly shootings

> Exploring and exposing Cape Town’s criminal landscape, Daily Maverick’s Caryn Dolley details the insidious expansion of the city’s notorious gangs out of their historic strongholds.

By Caryn Dolley · Published 15 July 2024, 21:47 SAST · Updated 15 July 2024, 21:47 SAST

## Key points
- As gang violence escalates in Cape Town, two high-profile trials involving figures like Nafiz Modack, Mark Lifman and Jerome "Donkie" Booysen shed light on the pervasive reach of crime from historic gang territories to the heart of the city, illustrating that criminal activity knows no bounds.
- Gang shootings surge in Cape Town suburbs
- Key trials highlight different types of crime in the city
- Accused plead not guilty in trials involving Modack, Lifman, and Booysen
- Crimes stretch from historic gang strongholds to city centre, showing crime has no boundaries

## Content

[YouTube video: "YouTube video"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGJQ2DYAgjw)

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**