The Christmas weekend ended in a bloodbath with five innocent victims and an alleged gangster shot dead during gang-related shootings.
Cops are now investigating the murders in Hanover Park, Ottery and Ocean View.
On Monday, a man who was standing with his friends opposite his home was gunned down in a drive-by shooting on Ryburg Road in Hanover Park.
Venito Spruit, 28, was shot nine times and died on the scene.
Relative Raihaana Ariefdien, 29, says: “He was inside the house and no one knew that he had gone out again.
“And when his sister saw his shoes, we were all shocked that he had been outside.”
The victim was with his three friends when the attack happened.
“I understand an SUV came and asked them in Afrikaans, ’What do guys in Boston have?’
“And they started shooting, his friends ran and he froze, they shot him in his lower back and legs and he fell,” she adds.
“He was on the ground when he still shouted and told them to run and I think it is then when he knew that he would not make it.”
Raihaana says that her cousin was not a gangster.
“He was a warm person who was loved by everyone. My mother even went to known gangsters and confirmed that he was not associated with them in any way.
“This would not hurt this much if we knew that he was a gangster.”
In an unrelated incident, a 30-year-old man was shot and killed in Edward Road, Ottery, on Sunday by an unidentified male who is yet to be arrested.
Earlier on that day, two women were shot and killed in Kerneels Court, Ottery, and three other wounded when unknown suspects opened fire at them.
The circumstances are being investigated and the suspects are yet to be arrested.
On Boxing Day, a 17-year-old boy from Groenpoort Walk was shot dead while in his bed sleeping.
A resident who wished to remain anonymous says: “The suspects forced their way into the flat and shot the boy even though they knew he was just a schoolboy who had nothing to do with gangsterism.”
And a 25-year-old man was shot dead and his brother injured when three suspects shot at them late on Saturday afternoon in Ocean View.
Anti-Gang Unit members, Tactical Response Team members, Public Order Police and additional detectives had to be deployed in the area to monitor flare-ups and trace suspects.
Police spokesman Colonel André Traut says circumstances surrounding the shootings are being investigated and no arrests have been made.