An African Crime Scene: Community Reeling from 2 Murders in 24 Hours

A man was found murdered at an open field between Ny 5 and Ny 108 in Gugulethu at the exact same spot where a body was dumped a day before.

A taxi driver and his two passengers were shot at in what appears to be a robbery on Monday.

One passenger was declared dead on the scene and the other sustained a bullet wound to the mouth and shoulder.

The taxi driver who had an injury to the head, managed to crawl out and collapsed near a small water pool where he was later taken by paramedics to assess his condition.

Twenty-four hours earlier police had attended to a scene where a body was found after being dumped along with another injured at the precisely the same spot.

A mother of two said that her backyard had become a “dumping ground”, referring to the earlier incident.

Teenagers who say they fear for their safety say they heard gun shots, but did not think of it, because it sounded quite far from them.

Police spokesperson Inspector Bernadine Steyn says that a green Toyota Cressida taxi with three occupants picked-up three unknown males in Browns Farm, Philippi.