A five-year-old boy has been shot dead in Lavender Hill, in Cape Town. The attack happened at Drury Court in Lavender Hill on Saturday afternoon. The police’s Frederick van Wyk told Eyewitness News that officers and crime experts were on the scene. The circumstances surrounding the shooting are under investigation.
In a separate incident earlier this month, 10-year-old Ayesha Kelly died after being caught in the crossfire of gun violence. At the same time, a 16-year-old boy was injured during the shooting in the same area. Two months ago, a 13-year-old girl was also shot and wounded in Hanover Park amid gang violence.
In another incident three months ago, a 12-year-old boy was killed in gang violence. He was one of three children killed in a shooting in Clarkes Estate, in Elsies River. An 18-year-old man also died following the shooting in the Cape Town community.
In other news – SA designer Thula Sindi trashes gqom
SA designer Thula Sindi is known for having a keen eye for fashion, but does his expertise also extend to the music world? Sindi had fans feeling all kinds of ways on Thursday when he took to Twitter to drag gqom, telling tweeps he was glad that ‘yanos had come to rescue the country from the genre.
He re-posted a meme that was initially shared by actor Aubrey Poo, thanking amapiano for stopping the “noise” of gqom. Sindi added that the nation’s “nerves and mental state” could only deal with gqom music for a limited period of time. As the conversation around his comments grew, Sindi compared gqom to “a dustbin falling down a flight of stairs. Read more
Source: EWN
