The FW de Klerk Foundation has urged government to declare gangsterism a national crisis, following a spate of recent gang-related killings that left six people dead and three injured in Reiger Park, Boksburg.
The foundation, along with crime and security experts, warned that the countrys current approach to tackling gangsterism is failing and called for urgent, coordinated national intervention.
FW de Klerk Foundation Executive Director Christo van der Rheede says, Just to give you some background to the reason why we asked for it to be declared a national crisis, in just one week in July 2025, 76 people were shot dead in Cape Town alone. Across gang hot spots, nearly 300 murders occurred every quarter, with the Cape Flats dominating the nations top murder precincts.