Demand for judicial inquiry after mass shooting in Bishop Lavis

NOT only has the recent mass shooting in Bishop Lavis been condemned by the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC), but it has also sparked a demand for a judicial inquiry into the systemic failure to address gang violence.

- THEOLIN TEMBO

Four people, including an elderly woman, were gunned down in a house in Bishop Lavis on Friday night.

The mass killing comes amid a deadly spate of shootings across the Cape Flats over the past two weeks, with at least five mass shootings reported in Mitchell's Plain, Kraaifontein, Mfuleni, and Lower Crossroads.

Bishop Lavis Community Policing Forum (CPF) has condemned the shooting, saying they are devastated and outraged by the relentless gang violence that continues to claim innocent lives in neighbourhoods.

They are demanding a judicial inquiry into: the systemic failure to address gang violence, the collapse of crime intelligence structures, and the flood of illegal guns and ammunition fuelling this bloodshed.