TOW TRUCK WARS: There will be blood: Gangsterism, underworld elements embedded in towing industry roadside battlefields

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Insiders say underworld thugs are embedded in the industry, turning the roadsides where drivers wait to help motorists into battlefields.

The recent murder of a tow truck driver in Cape Town has turned the focus back on an industry gangsters are suspected of infiltrating – and some insiders warn that if the police do not crack down harder on criminal elements there will be more bloodshed.can reveal there are suspicions that, in the weeks leading up to his December 2019 murder, former Hard Livings gang boss Rashied Staggie had a falling-out with another underworld figure at a tow truck yard in Cape Town.

Minutes of a November 2019 meeting in Parliament show that Minister of Police Bheki Cele said the “phenomenon of the trouble brought by tow trucks” was a national problem. Pel said: “There are allegations of drugs, gangsterism, mafia in the towing industry. Until SAPS [the South African Police Service] take this seriously, it will continue and there will be blood on the hands of law enforcers, in our opinion. If not already.”“These tensions are said to be over turf – areas from where tow truckers operate. It indeed is so that some believe they have the right to ‘own’ areas, and then these incidents occur,” Pel said.

Utasa members regularly flagged related problems with the SAPS and its Crime Intelligence division, according to Pel. Another Western Cape police spokesperson, Colonel Andrè Traut, said, apart from the murder, the police also knew about other problems in the towing industry.“We are also aware of incidents of intimidation that have been reported to us, which are in all probability sparked by the territory where rival tow trucks are operating,” Traut explained.

 

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Is there an industry in South Africa that is not bloody and have no gangsterism undertones🤔🤔🤔🤔

South Africa is one notch up to reach Libya's or Yemen's state of being. A lawless state.

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