@AneleBDlamini@MDNnewss And he was very right to be happy to send Satanists to prison... I spent 22 years of direct imprisonment for fighting this evil of drugs and I survived... and I'm still eager to carry on where I left, and this time, I'm more effective and brutal than ever before. He'll survive.
@MyPAConline Thanks for the clarity noble son. Actually, I was never confused. I knew it was fake news from these mentally ill individuals who call themselves PAC while they are not. Normal PAC members are in full support of the GNU. And are not confused.
@GattusoRamsh@Abramjee From your tone, I'm convinced that you know nothing about suffering and criminality. I spent a full 23 years in a prison cell for this nonsense... I only came out of prison on the 24th of January, since 2001. Here it now from the horses mouth... this is bullshit.
Ralph Stanfield is South Africa's most powerful alleged underworld figure. He is unique in that his underworld influence bridges the gap between traditionally black criminals operating in Gugulethu, Nyanga, and Khayelitsha, and traditionally coloured gangs in the coloured areas of the Cape Flats.
He is the nephew of Colin Stanfield, the former leader of The Firm - an amalgamation of gang bosses - and the 28s - SA's most powerful gang - both of which he allegedly inherited.
He was a close friend of slain lawyer Pete Mihalik and stands in opposition to the Mark Lifman/Jerome "Donkie" Booysen alleged underworld axis. (read some of my work on Mihalik's murder and the Modack extortion trial for why this is important).
The organisation he allegedly controls is behind large-scale drug trafficking, gun trafficking, murder, corruption, extortion, and tender rigging through force (construction mafia).
His arrest is the single biggest step taken against organised crime in the Western Cape, and probably in South Africa, in the last decade.
The police are using a truly novel tactic in South African policing to frustrate him, that being basic police work. The cases on which he's been arrested are not major organised crime cases (he is facing charges relating to organised crime too in relation to his alleged corrupting of police institutions to ensure that he gets gun licenses for his gangs).
They are small cases, meticulously followed up by some of South Africa's most experienced (albeit greyish) investigators.
It's going to be a war of attrition, a death by a thousand cuts, that has proved extremely successful in persecuting organised crime bosses in America and other countries over the decades.
In South Africa, a recent example of this approach is the approach taken by the police with Nafiz Modack.
Modack made the mistake of pissing on police minister Bheki Cele's turf when he went to Beerhouse (a Cape Town restaurant that has for years been extorted by various underworld factions just like every other bar or restaurant in Cape Town) the day after Cele promised the restaurants in the area, including Beerhouse, that the police would keep them safe from intimidation and extortion.
Yeah right, they thought, when Modack arrived the next night with his heavily armed bodyguards and entered Beerhouse to speak to the manager. Some things don't have to be said for people to understand what they mean, and Modack's presence there meant to say "we own this town, we own enough police to stay out of trouble". Well, Cele went and got a group of investigators from Pretoria and Johannesburg and sent them to Cape Town with the understanding that they can go home once Modack's money is finished and he learns to love 4 square meters of concrete and three square meals of watery samp.
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