Mbeko Venfolo, the director of Venfolo Attorneys, was among the group of people gunned down in an apparent drive-by shooting in Gugulethu on Monday.
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The Black Lawyers Association (BLA) says it learnt with ‘shock and disgust the sad news’ of the death of Venfolo. ‘This calamity comes a little more than a month after the death of another lawyer, Ayanda Gladile, who also died at the hands of gun-touting individuals who have no regard for human life.
‘The extent to which criminals have scant regard for human life is the clearest indication of how ripped-off the moral fibre of society is. Our communities live at the mercy of brazen criminality. The prevailing situation is an antithesis of our hard-fought liberation from the tyranny of apartheid for there can be no freedom when criminality reigns.’
The BLA has called for ‘intervention’, stating that ‘the status quo cannot be allowed. Crime in the country has reached unprecedented levels which should concern every law-abiding citizen.’
According to TimesLIVE, organised crime detectives are investigating the incident. ‘Police were called on Monday evening to Fenqe Street in KTC. On arrival they discovered the bodies of five men with gunshot wounds in two vehicles,’ says Western Cape police spokesperson Brigadier Novela Potelwa.
‘Reports indicate the victims were sitting in two vehicles when another vehicle with armed men emerged and shots were fired at the occupants of the two vehicles. Five men between the ages of 46 and 52 were killed.
‘The motive for the shooting is the subject of the police investigation that has been initiated with no arrests yet.’
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