/ 25 March 1999

GANG LEADER STAGGIE SHOT

HIGH profile leader of the Hard Livings gang, Rashied Staggie, is in hospital on Thursday afternoon after being shot outside his home in what appears to be a drive-by shooting. Police spokeperson Captain Anine de Beer told ZA*NOW that the shooting took place outside Staggie’s Oletta Court home on the Cape Flats at around 1.15pm. She said Staggie was driving a minibus when the occupants of a second car fired on him before speeding off. He was hit in the stomach and arm by two bullets. De Beer said Staggie was taken to hospital in a private car where he is an serious but stable condition. De Beer said the shooting is linked to the on-going gang violence on the Cape flats. Staggie’s brother Rashaad, a prominent drug trafficker and gang leader was publicly shot and burned by members of vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs during an anti-drugs protest in August 1996.