Pumza Filani
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 10 Jun
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It's a trend that's been on the rise in recent years of mass shootings and usually it is between rival gangs or interpersonal conflicts.
The police have held a press briefing saying that they are following all leads but would not give more detail on it.
But we do know from community members at this stage is that one of the suspected motives has been linked to illegal mining activity in the area.
The informal settlement sits not too far from old disused mines and in the last few months there's been rival activity there
between groups of people that are mining illegally.
So this is people who go into the disused mines and try to salvage whatever little gold nuggets they can find and sell those in the black market.
So community members believe that this was one of the reasons that this community was targeted because a lot of those miners are known to live in the area.
The police
have said to us they do not discount this as a possibility, but at this stage they are considering all options.
They've launched their manhunt and hope to be able to bring some people to justice soon.
It's a trend that's been on the rise in recent years of mass shootings, and usually it is between rival gangs.
Yeah, as you say, South Africa, dogged by violence for years.
It was from what the police tell us.
This group was heavily armed with rifles.
Now, these are not arms.
These are not weapons that are readily available.
There is a belief that a lot of resources would be involved in sourcing these arms, but also keeping them functioning.
So we're starting to get a little bit of a sense that this might be something linked to some organized crime element.
approach ambiguous stimulus, so what is called pessimistic cognitive bias.
One of the main things that we can speak to around who these men are is where they come from.
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