Calls are mounting for gangsterism to be declared a provincial disaster in the Western Cape, as community leaders and civil society organisations warn that gang violence has reached crisis levels and continues to claim lives across the province.
Civil society group the Cape Crime Crisis Coalition C4 has urged the provincial government to formally acknowledge the scale of gang violence, arguing that existing interventions have failed to protect vulnerable communities.
According to The Citizen , C4 chairperson Reverend Llewellyn MacMaster described the situation as a human-made catastrophe.
