Carletonville

Yeah.

I know, I know of the stories that I've heard from Carletonville to, to Riverlea.

I've done stories about it, about how people, about how there are almost cities underneath the ground where you guys are there, where people are just-

Yeah

And you are hearing it from the police.

Yeah.

Wh-wh-what do you expect the communities to do? Go to Carletonville.

Remember the, the, the, the, the, the documentaries that were done I think about 15 years ago-

Okay.

So I was born in Carletonville.

Yeah.

Stayed there till I were about five.

Okay.

So that's how we got to know Joey.

Um, they also, they had a plot just outside Carletonville with hangars and a runway there.

Um, so me and Joey and my mom took a flight to Wonderboom.

And Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,000, government data shows.

On a recent Saturday night, a minibus taxi drew up to a tavern in the gold mining town of Carletonville, west of Johannesburg.

Eight men armed with AK-47 rifles alighted from the vehicle before gunning down patrons.

18 people died.

That kind of thing.

There was, for instance, and it may have contributed something to the tensions in Carltonville.

There was a man described as sort of dangerous kingpin who was shot dead by the SAPS National Intervention Unit last month.

But, you know, by and large, the people that are being arrested, particularly now with the military deployment in conjunction with SAPS in some of these areas, are your low-level foot soldiers.

It gives the sense that something is being done when in actual fact, very little is being achieved.

If you look at the Cape Flats, the military deployment has done very little to change the levels of violence there.

Similarly, Carltonville, there's a military deployment, there's a police station not far from where the shooting happened, and yet it still happened.

And clearly the people who carried out that shooting feel a level of impunity, that there are going to be no consequences.

I have been speaking with the BBC's Thuthuka Zondi, who has been at the scene of crime near Johannesburg.

On Sunday, we received a call that there was a mass shooting 80 kilometers outside of Johannesburg in a mining town called Carletonville.

So we went straight there, and when we got there, the scene was still cordoned off.

You could still see the blood on the floor, and we were told that 17 people had died.