Just in: Cape Town On Fire Following the Killing of
Yusuf Abramjee, a prominent South African crime correspondent and anti-crime activist with over 970,000 followers, reported the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy in Uitsig, Ravensmead, Cape Town on September 11, 2026, at the old Holy Cross Home on De La Rey Road.
The incident adds to a pattern of youth shootings in the Cape Flats area, where Uitsig has seen multiple gang-related killings of teens in 2025-2026, often involving crossfire, robberies, or targeted attacks amid high local violence rates.
Public replies express shock at children dying daily in such violence, with questions raised about witnesses, arrests, and whether the boy was a targeted victim or caught in unrelated conflict.