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The charges involve an alleged hand grenade murder attempt and conspiring to kill a lawyer. Security is expected to be tight, as an Anti-Gang Unit member has also been drawn into the case. The Blue Downs Regional Court will hear a bail application on Friday involving controversial businessman Nafiz Modack and several other co-accused. Modack, an alleged underworld kingpin, faces a raft of charges, including alleged gang activity, being part of a hand grenade plot against slain Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) detective Charl Kinnear, and a shooting at the home of Cape Town lawyer, William Booth. For secu...

They appeared under heavy security provided by the AGU. AGU head Major-General Andre Lincoln sat in the public gallery to observe at the end of a dramatic week packed with appearances by Modack, regarded by some as a "gang kingpin". Accused Jacques Cronje leaving court on Friday. Gallo Images Brenton Greach/Gallo Zane Kilian appears at Cape Town Magistrate's Court on Friday. Gallo Images Brenton Greach/Gallo Nafiz Modack appears at Cape Town Magistrate. Gallo Images Brenton Greach/Gallo One of Lincoln's officers, Ashley Tabisher, is a co-accused in a corruption case with Modack and Elsie'...

Police Minister Bheki Cele sat in court along with the police's top brass. Modack's supporters stood outside the court and called out to him as he left. As an armoured vehicle whisked businessman and philanthropist Nafiz Modack away from the Cape Town Magistrate's Court on Monday, some of his supporters called out: "We love you Nafiz!" Modack is known as someone who provides meals for impoverished families in some Cape Town suburbs. He appeared in the dock along with his co-accused, Jacques Cronje and Ricardo Morgan, while police officers lined the walls of the courtroom, bearing rifles and w...

Jaco Marais Cape Town lawyer William Booth's house was scouted several times before three gangsters tried to kill him.   On one occasion, two of the gangsters got high in the bushes before the hit, but one fell into a hole and hurt his leg.    He had to go to Groote Schuur Hospital for treatment, annoying the prison gangster who ordered the hit.  The details of the attempted hit on Cape Town lawyer William Booth were released in an unexpected plea and sentencing agreement in the Cape Town Regional Court on Friday.   However, instead of a sleek coterie of assassins, the mission turned o...

Jenni Evans, News24 A witness in the murder investigation of the Anti-Gang Unit's Charl Kinnear compiled reports for the police to show the senior detective was being tracked.   The Bellville Regional Court heard that Bradley Goldblatt, whose house was raked with bullets in a drive-by shooting, also gave police updates on this before Kinnear was murdered.   Kilian's lawyer maintains that the evidence against the debt collector and former rugby player is circumstantial and that the real killer has not been caught.      A witness in the investigation into the murder of the Anti-Gang Unit...