Blasts rock Capetown suburb

Datura said:
You think? Because sometimes, just sometimes detonating bombs in or around Cape Town is good?!? :wtf:
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Captain sarcastic, one may think it is good that they are targeting drug dealers to try and clean up communities. Therefore, one may be happy that this occured as it may put fear in the lives of drug lords.

The reason why I think it is bad is, I've seen groups like this lose the plot and harm innocent people. They start out for the right cause, but it never ends up that way.

I have no problems with drugs lords being blown up though.
 
grantza said:
What makes you think that.
The local gangsters are guns & knives, never bombs - pagad has a history with bombs !
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Mafia, not Pagad, planted Cape Town bombs'

June 1 2007 at 04:38am

By Karen Breytenbach and Noah Barron

It has been claimed that bombings of city nightclubs and restaurants in the 1990s were the work of mafia protection rackets of which Ulianitski was a part, and not People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) as the public was led to believe, amid shocking revelations about the life of Yuri "the Russian" Ulianitski.

A reliable source told the Cape Times that Moroccans, headed by Ulianitski, had intimidated the owners of some of these establishments to use them as bouncers.

"There was a very strong belief" that the blasts were part of their "reign of terror" in the city at the time."
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Thirty people were displaced when their homes burnt down following a petrol bomb attack in Bonteheuwel on Saturday, the Cape Town disaster management services centre said.

"At approximately 09.45 on Saturday, a petrol bomb was thrown at a house. The blaze spread to other three council dwellings resulting in severe damages, " said disaster management spokesperson Wilfred Solomons-Johannes.

The disaster management teams provided clothing, food parcels and blankets to the residents.

"The city has called on the police to open a case of malicious damage to these properties," said Solomons-Johannes.

He said although the perpetrators had not been identified, they suspected the attack was a "turf war over drugs".link
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Cape Town - Alleged gang leader Sanie “American” Davids narrowly escaped a suspected bomb attack on his home in Kensington on Friday night.

Family of Davids believed an explosive device was placed under his vehicle, a white Mercedes-Benz, moments after he arrived home around 8.30pm
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They're not only guns and knives seems that they haven't been for a long time.
 
There was 2 explosions. One at Velocity Cars and another at a house in Surrey Estate.
 
killadoob said:
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! well put. South africa, we care more about getting the facts and distances correct before we wonder what kind of crime happened :D.

Pipe bomb for what though? fun or targeting something?
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+1 It took me a while to get used to the mentality of the locals. South Africans are used to almost daily shootings and explosions. For them is not exceptional anymore. They find it more interesting to talk about the reporter and his shortcomings. WTF
 
Related to pagad.

Explosions at Pagad march
July 25 2013 at 01:31pm

Cape Town - Bombs were hurled at a house and a car dealership in Athlone on Wednesday night, at the same time the organisation People Against Gangsterism And Drugs (Pagad) held a motorcade protest in the area.

Pagad has denied any involvement in the blasts, which were reminiscent of attacks associated with the organisation at the turn of this century.

Nobody was injured in Wednesday night’s blasts and damage was relatively minor.

Pagad on Wednesday night embarked on its third successive motorcade, in Athlone and Bokmakierie, “in a show of support for rehabilitated victims of drug abuse and those victims who are still suffering”.

Police spokesman FC van Wyk said on Thursday that an explosive device had been detonated at a car dealership, Velocity Cars, in Belgravia Estate at about 9.30pm. “It is suspected that the device was thrown into the premises before it was detonated. Vehicles on the property were damaged. No one was injured.”

Five minutes later, another explosive device was detonated at a house in Taurus Road in nearby Surrey Estate.

“The device caused damage to the garage door and shattered neighbours’ windows. No one was injured,” Van Wyk said.

This is the second bomb attack at the residence in three months, according to neighbours.

Pagad spokesman Haroon Orrie said on Thursday they had “heard about (the bombs) on the news” and had had “no involvement whatsoever”.

He added that Pagad’s enemies might be trying to frame them.

“We can’t say for certain, but often (when) Pagad finds its feet and has positive engagements with the public to bring our anti-drug and gangsterism message across, we see incidents of such attacks coinciding with our motorcades and events,” he said.

When Pagad launched its motorcade campaign on July 11, it drew a heavy police presence, as it did on Wednesday night.

Residents in Surrey Estate said that the house, which was unoccupied on Thursday morning, belonged to the owner of a taxi business. The Cape Argus phoned the home owner, but he refused to comment. The windows of the house and of cars in the driveway had been blown out.

Velocity Motors’ director, Niyaaz Jainoodian, said he had no idea who could have been behind the bombing.

“We have good relations with the community. I view this as an isolated case,” he said. He said he and his 25 staff members were stressed and “shell shocked” in the wake of the attack.

http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/explosions-at-pagad-march-1.1552674#.UfFNG-UZm8o
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AfricanTech said:
Too faking lazy to look on Google Maps and see how far.
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I am >30km from Sydney CBD as crow flies but still in Sydney, so if someone here looked at Google Maps they would say it is in the city centre

just getting the important stuff right :-)
 
OzzieCapie said:
I am >30km from Sydney CBD as crow flies but still in Sydney, so if someone here looked at Google Maps they would say it is in the city centre

just getting the important stuff right :-)
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30km away is the city centre? :wtf:

I think you might need some geography lessons.
 
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