terror
Marianne Merten
August 8 1996: Hard Livings gang boss Rashaad Staggie is lynched during a People against Gansterism and Drugs (Pagad) demonstration in the presence of police, media and emergency workers. An inquest into the death, launched when the Cape High Court trial of Pagad member Ozeer Booley collapsed last year, has been repeatedly delayed
June 26 1998: Pipe bomb explodes outside Mowbray police station. No one injured. No arrests.
August 6 1998: Clothes hawker Nolusindio Mlolo dies and two other people are injured when a pipe bomb explodes outside the entrance to the Bellville, Cape Town, offices of the police unit investigating Pagad.
August 25 1998: Two people are killed and at least 25 injured when a pipe bomb rips through Planet Hollywood at the Waterfront. Although three Pagad members were detained for questioning, they were all released.
December 18 1998: Pipe bomb explodes outside the Wynberg synagogue during Chanukkah celebrations. No one injured. No arrests.
New Year’s Day 1999: Two people are injured when a pipe bomb hidden in a car parked in the parking lot at the V&A Waterfront explodes.
January 28 1999: At least 11 people injured when a pipe bomb in a rubbish bin outside the Cape Town Central police station explodes during lunch hour just days before Operation Good Hope was to be launched. No arrests.
January 30 1999: A woman is slightly injured when a pipe bomb placed in a car outside the Woodstock police station detonates. No arrests.
May 9 1999: Pipe bomb placed in a car parked outside the Athlone police station explodes. Noone injured. No arrests.
November 6 1999: Nine people are injured in a Saturday-night bombing of the gay Blah Bar in Green Point. Deon Mostert is being questioned.
November 28 1999: Forty-eight people are injured in a pipe bomb explosion at St Elmo’s pizzeria in Camps Bay, triggering a strengthening of the anti-urban terrorism campaign Operation Good Hope, which had been scaled down. Mostert is being questioned.
n During this period pipe bombs have exploded at the homes of University of Cape Town academic Ebrahim Moosa and former Muslim Judicial Council president Sheich Nazeem Mohammed.
n Homes of Muslim businessmen have also been attacked. Some of those killed include: Adam Vinoos and his son Faizel, shot dead in two separate drive-by shootings this year, and Rafiq Parker, killed on the driveway to his house.
n Top city gangsters who have been killed in various drive-by shootings include: Belhar 28s leader Ernie “Lapepa” Peters, Mongrel gang boss Ismail “Bobby Mongrel” April, Neville “Jackie Lonte” Harrold, Katie-Ann Arendse and her husband; Mitchells Plain Americans gang leader Glen Khan; and Leonard “Chippies” Archilles.