South Africans Shocked as Three Killed in Cape Flats, Cape Town Faces Escalating Gun Violence
- Blood continues to spill on the Cape Flats after three people were shot and killed and one injured in three separate shooting incidents
- This incident follows another shooting incident that left seven people dead last week in Cape Town
- The South African Police Service in Cape Town has confirmed to Briefly News that four people were killed this morning in Kraaifontein
Gun violence continues to cause havoc in Cape Town. This comes after three people were shot and killed in three separate shooting incidents this morning, 14 September 2025.
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Three people killed in Kraaifontein
The South African Police Service confirmed that three people have been killed and one injured in three separate shooting incidents in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Brigadier Novela Potelwa stated that the incidents occurred in Wallacedene, Kraaifontein, in the early hours of Sunday morning, 14 September.
Potelwa said that police crime scene experts are still on the scene. This is the third mass shooting in a week in Cape Town. On Sunday, 14 September 2025, various shots were fired in different areas in Cape Flats, including Hanover Park, Ravenmead, Valhalla Park, Manenburg, Elsies River, and Capricorn.
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Fight Against Crime South Africa recorded eight shooting incidents. Five fatalities have been recorded, with two more individuals injured.
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What did South Africans say?
Social media users shared their opinions regarding the shooting incidents on the Cape Flats.
@Sharon Sharon said:
"Tripple X3 people don't sleep at night."
@Peter Charl Potgieter said:
"Wow this time off the day on an empty stomach."
@Leonie Jennifer William said:
"Jesus we need you now more than ever."
@Tougheed Tommy said:
"Damn this has become to much of a norm lately. Why does this useless government not enforce the law that is already there. Arrest all gangsters seen that its against the law to belong a gang.
Make use of Robben Island as a prison again and all murder, rape and child molestation offenders found guilty of these crimes should be punished with the death penalty. Prisoners rights should be removed and hard labour chain gangs should be reinstituded. These criminals do not deserve to have human rights protecting them. Gangsterism must fall. Crime must fall. We need a safer Cape Town/South Africa."
@Vanessa Steven said:
"Just hope they got the people they came for and not innocent ones they must continue killing each other and leave us who knows nothing about their business."
@Pheadra Lynn Jasson said:
"Omw. What is happening in our country. It's just murders all over the Cape Flats. God be with all of us. We are living in End of Days."
@Gaironessa Anthony said:
"It's not kraaifontein it's cry fontein it's getting worse now no man everyday."
3 More stories about shooting on the Cape Flats reported by Briefly News
- Briefly News also reported that 79 children have been killed in the Cape Flats area from 1 September to 20 November 2024. The latest victim, 14-year-old Grantham Jahmiel van Reenen, was killed while walking to school.
- The Police Minister, Professor Firoz Cachalia, has called for an end to the conflict between gangsters in the Western Cape.
- Two teenagers were murdered in a drive-by shooting in the Cape Flats suburb of Lavender Hill.
Source: Briefly News
