A council worker from Manenberg is alive after being struck by a gang bullet while cleaning a dumping site.
Ward councillor Aslam Cassiem says he witnessed how a heartless skollie opened fire in Gonubie Street causing the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers to run for their lives.
“It was just before 9am and I saw the EPWP workers busy at one of the dumping hotspots.
“I walked over to talk to them and there was a group of men on the one side.
“There was a bit of a scuffle and two men walked away from the group towards Gouritz. Then one of them turned around and started shooting.”
Cassiem says the workers fled in various directions and he drove after some of them to get them to safety.
SHOCK: Aslam Cassiem with Joseph Boyes and another council worker who escaped a Manenberg gang shooting. Picture: Monique Duval
“There were about two of three of them who just stood there and froze. I think it was the shock of the shots going off.
“The man, Joseph Boyes, didn’t even realise he had been shot.
“The bullet went right through his right arm and the blood was everywhere.
“I took him to Heideveld Emergency Centre and they gave him medical attention. He is a father and safely back home.”
Cassiem says when he later returned to Gonubie Street he was told that the skollies involved belong to the Clever Kidz and Americans gangs.
Acting station commander, Colonel Sanele Zama, confirms that a 44-year-old man was injured in the shooting and says no arrests have been made.