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1 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
“At the time of the shooting, I was outside. I ran inside the house when I heard gunshots and people started running. When I entered the house, there was my little girl in a pool of blood,” said Monique Cottle

1/ Cape Town Police sold guns to gangsters
2/ A number of people have
died in the latest conflict in Woodstock, fed from the Flats and spreading into the Northern Suburbs.
3/ As the mother of this little girl indicated there was such shooting they couldn’t tell which direction the bullets were coming from. The family of the little girl lived in a
Wendy house in the Southern Suburbs.
4/ The DA was marching in Mitchell’s Plain yesterday to send a message to Bheki Cele
5/ SAPS is prosecuting Anti-Gang Unit supercop Jeremy Veary, whose colleague Charl Kinnear was assassinated after announcing incriminating evidence against
Senior Officials
6/ Albert Fritz (DA) welcomed the latest Police Commissioner on a return posting after he had been transferred before from Cape Town for under-performing
7/ The DA claims the Police are doing a great job under the circumstances, the fault is with the ANC, and
gangsterism is community-specific
8/ The DA marched in Mitchell’s Plain

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