Alleged gang boss Jerome "Donkie" Booysen is recovering in a private hospital in Cape Town after being shot in the neck in an alleged drive-by shooting in Ravensmead, near Elsies River in Cape Town on Monday night.
It's believed the alleged boss of the Sexy Boys and 26s gangs took a wrong turn and was targeted by a rival gang.
Members of his gangs have reportedly been dispatched to guard him at the hospital, while other teams have been deployed too retaliate.
TARGETED: The bullet holes in the alleged gang boss's car. Picture: Leon Knipe
A local neighbourhood watch member in Ravensmead said the shooting continued late into Monday night.
There were more shootings earlier on Monday in the same area, but the police could not confirm if the shootings were linked.
"Circumstances surrounding a shooting incident this afternoon in 47th Street, Connaught Estate, Ravensmead where a 51-year-old man was fatally wounded and three others age 43 and 49 injured are under investigation. A murder and attempted murder case was registered for investigation," Van Wyk said.
Three years ago evidence was heard in the Cape Town Regional Court implicating Booysen as being part of Specialised Protection Services, which at that point had provided security to 156 entertainment venues in the Western Cape with 258 bouncers.
The company was deregistered because it was not a member of the statutory body regulating private security, Psira.
Businessman Mark Liffman and former SPS boss Andre Naude, close associates of Booysen, were later acquitted on 313 counts, including for contravening the private security regulatory act.
Booysen was also a suspect in the death of another underworld figure, Cyril Beeka, who died in a hail of bullets in 2011. Beeka had returned from visiting Booysen in Bellville when his vehicle came under fire from a gunman on a motorcycle on Jake Gerwel Drive in front of the University of the Western Cape.
The man believed to be part of a new grouping which has taken over security at most of Cape Town’s nightclubs, Nafiz Modack, confirmed last night that he had also heard of the shootings.
Last week four people were killed and 11 wounded as rival gangs battled it out over drug turf in Elsies River, not far from where Booysen was shot.
“Anyone with any information about (Monday's) shooting incident is kindly requested to contact Crime Stop on 08600 10111."