People Against Gangsterism and Drugs

And in the 1990s, as we went through the transformation period, Kibler morphed into Pagad and reinvented themselves as people against drugs, against gangsterism and drugs.

Meanwhile, their actual agenda was to continue the narrative of Kibler under new guys.

And an ex-MK intelligence member who became part of the security branch of the newly created intelligence structures within the police, David Africa, who's written a book about it, actually used the intelligence tradecraft to infiltrate PAGAD and for them to break the back of PAGAD.

And we could see that PAGAD weren't people against gangsterism and drugs when they started bombing New York Bagels in Seapoint, when they bombed the Hard Rock Cafe on the Atlantic seaboard on the promenade.

You could see that there There was a political agenda behind them.

So everything you've just mentioned with the eruditism and these various tribal groups wanting to grow their areas of tribal authority, it falls into exactly the same category as what we saw with Kibla trying to create a Muslim state within the Western Cape.

What needs to happen now in order for us to get an intelligence process in this country that is functional, that is protective of our sovereignty, of our rights, of our statehood, as it were, what needs to happen now?

Chad? People need to be appointed from the perspective of merit and experience.

Same gangs, more drugs, more money, now with cocaine, and by the mid-2000s, you've got TIC, which is crystal meth.

By the mid-90s, people out there are so sick of it that a vigilante movement starts out of the mosque called People Against Gangsterism and Drugs, PAGAD.

PAGAD, though, like a lot of vigilante movements, are sort of gangsters themselves, and they start taking on the gang leaders around the flats.

The Hard Living's gang at the time is one of the big gangs run by twin brothers, Rashad and Rashid Staggy.

And on the night of August 4th, 1996, Pagad marches on the Staggy house with 2,000 people, many of them armed.

The fallout from the Constitutional Court's asylum ruling dominated the day on air, as violent protests, arrests and a fresh government legal strategy ran through bulletins on 702, Cape Talk, SAFM, 947, CAIA and Power FM.

In Cape Town, a surge of gang shootings in Athlone kept residents and Pagad in the headlines.

Stations also marked Navi Pillai's Nobel Peace Prize, Sundown's MTN8 triumph and the loss of R&B singer Freddie Jackson, while Jacob Zuma's health remained a recurring talking point.

First up, government returns to court as asylum ruling fuels unrest.

Police have made no arrests and believe the motive is gang-related.

The local community policing forum pointed to a string of recent incidents, including a deadly shooting outside Heatherdale Primary during the morning school drop-off.

On Sunday, Pagad marched into the suburb to give suspected drug dealers an ultimatum.

On Kaya, DA leader Jordan Hill-Lewis accused police of failing to tackle gangsterism.