Sources explain that this has been the 1990s, and the campaign of bombings and assassinations the possible due to the large cash reserves the gang has at its disposal. [...] The two young men were described as devout and beloved mem- including members that are high up in those gangs, choose to join bers of the Islamic community.21 A local Americans gang member, the Fancy Boys.’11 For this reason, former members of the Hard alias ‘Keff’, turned himself in after residents and G-Force circulated Livings and 28s in Mitchells Plain have crossed the floor. [...] his image online, accusing him of the murders.22 The Fancy Boys’ success in bringing other gangsters into their fold Yet sources within both G-Force and the Americans in Hanover has also been linked to a generational divide in attitude between the Park have confirmed that, instead of a hijacking gone wrong, the old guard of gang members and the younger generation. [...] The impact of corruption, which has reached even the highest ech- DYNAMIC 4: Systemic issues in the criminal justice elons of the Western Cape policing structures, has also become a system are hindering the response to gangs. [...] A ground-breaking Western Cape High Court judgment warned in October 2022 that members of the 28s gang had infiltrat- Many of the key challenges facing South Africa’s criminal justice ed the highest levels of police management in the province.48 This system – emerging from the disastrous years of state capture – is reflected in our research findings: gang sources report in inter- are acutely felt.
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