S.Africa: Indian Gun dealer supplies high calibre firearms to Cape Town’s Terrible Josters Gang
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For years, high-calibre firearms have been sold to gangs in Cape Town, and residents have become accustomed to the rattling sound of gunfire. Gang violence is causing havoc in the Cape Flats, with communities bearing the brunt of the shootings on a daily basis. A recent case highlights how gang members allegedly access their weapons.
The latest case in the Western Cape Division of the High Court involving guns being sold to gangsters is that of Anderson Padayachee, a Durban gun dealer who allegedly sold high-calibre rifles and firearms to the notorious Terrible Josters gang between 2018 and 2019, fueling the brutal gang war on the Cape Flats.
The Terrible Josters allegedly used those high-calibre guns in their deadly turf war to gain a larger share of the lucrative drug market, take out witnesses who dared to testify against them as well as eliminate rival gang members who dared to cross over into their turf.
Padayachee faces 66 charges, including eight counts of murder, five counts of attempted murder, violating the Prevention of Organised Crime Act, and several crimes under the Firearm Control Act.
The State argues that Padayacee did not directly pull the trigger on the eight persons that the Terrible Josters killed, but the guns registered to Padayachee’s dealership, Anderson’s Guns and Ammo in Merebank, Durban, were allegedly used to commit these murders. The State also contends that the eight murders were premeditated.
Padayachee has pleaded not guilty to the allegations in the trial that began in November at the Western Cape Division of the High Court. It’s scheduled to resume on 3 February 2025.
Padayachee allegedly sold the Terrible Josters a 5.223 Saiga, 20 shotguns, a .22 LR Beretta Rifle, two .303 Lee Enfield rifles and a 7.62x39mm Norinco rifle. He was also allegedly sold the gang pistols. The State claims the gang paid him R700,000.
Padayachee was detained by the Hawks on 11 February 2021. According to a Hawks statement, he was allegedly “linked to an illegal supply of firearms through his dealership to criminal gangs in the Western Cape”.
Guns to gangs
This is not the first case of selling guns to gangsters to be heard in South African courts. In 2016, former police colonel Christiaan Lodewyk Prinsloo, who controlled the Gauteng police firearms register, was sent to jail for 18 years.
This was after Prinsloo pleaded guilty in the Bellville Regional Court to over 20 charges of racketeering, corruption and money laundering. For at least six years, the top cop and a colleague sold an estimated R9-million worth of lethal illegal weapons and ammunition to Cape Flats ganglords as well as right-wing extremists in Gauteng.
Read more: When Hell is not Hot Enough: A Top Cop who supplied weapons to country’s gangsters and right wingers
Between 2010 and 2016, according to details that emerged in the Prinsloo case, 2,000 illegally sold firearms could be linked to 1,666 murders, 1,403 attempted murders and 315 other crimes.
Prinsloo was released on parole in April 2020.
The State’s case
According to the summary of substantial facts, the State claims that between 2018 and 2019 Padayachee allegedly participated in the Terrible Josters gang by wilfully aiding and abetting the gang’s criminal activity for the benefit of, or in association with, such a criminal gang.
“The accused unlawfully sold or supplied firearms or ammunition to members of the Terrible Josters criminal gang, individually or collectively. The accused had foreseen the possibility that these firearms could be used by members of the Terrible Josters to commit offences set out in the charge sheet, and reconciled him with this possibility.
“Examinations of the firearms used in the murder and attempted murder counts revealed that it was registered to the dealership of the accused. Inspections conducted by the Designated Firearms Officers found that these firearms had been unlawfully sold by the accused,” the State claims.
Other charges against Padayachee include failing to submit weekly returns regarding firearms received from Selwell Sports CC and Bernhard Agencies to the Office of the Central Firearms Register, as well as rendering a security service as a training provider or instructor in the use of firearms to a security service or prospective security provider while not accredited and authorised to do so by the Registrar of Firearms.
A big stockpile of firearms that was confiscated after a high-speed chase in Laingsburg on 9 June 2018 during which alleged gun smuggler Anderson Padayachee was arrested. (Photo: NPA)
Shavon Felix, a Laingsburg police sergeant, was one of the witnesses to take the stand. He gave an account of a high-speed chase involving a VW silver Polo that took place on Saturday, 9 June 2018.
According to him, when the police brought the vehicle to a halt and searched it they discovered a magazine carrying 16 bullets inside the vehicle, as well as a bag containing 17 new firearms and magazines in the boot.
According to Felix’s evidence, Padayachee was the driver with three other occupants and a bearded man in the passenger seat. But Padayachee’s lawyer, Carlo Viljoen, has rejected these assertions, telling the court that his client was not in the vehicle that was stopped by police. The identity of the bearded person will be ventilated when the trial resumes in February 2025.
Terrible Josters — 10,000 strong
The Terrible Josters’ name has been in the Western Cape Division of the High Court on several occasions before. Their reign of terror and the harm they imposed on communities were laid bare in two previous trials.
Twenty Terrible Josters members are currently before court in a case that commenced in October 2020 in the Western Cape Division of the High Court before Acting Judge James Lekhuleni. The gang members pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Terrible Josters leader Elton Lenting and his lieutenant, Raymond Arendse, face 141 counts out of the total of 145, which includes 10 murders. While the leaders did not commit the murders, they are party to the crimes by issuing orders to henchmen.
The indictment sets out that the Terrible Josters operated under the leadership of Lenting and Arendse and collectively engaged in “a pattern of activity”.
Read more: Gang bosses face 145 charges — including 10 murders — for decade of terror in Western Cape
This case will continue on 27 January 2025 in the Western Cape Division of the High Court.
Lenting’s trial followed another involving Horatio Solomons and five members of the same gang, who predominantly controlled Delft, and who were handed hefty sentences by Judge Owen Rogers in the same court.
During this trial, a witness repeatedly told the court that Solomon was the leader of the gang, which consisted of 10,000 members, whom Solomon controlled in Delft, Wesbank, Elsies River and Kleinmond.
Rogers imposed life sentences on Solomon, his second in command, Ismail Ockerts, and gang member Lucian Consul for the murder of Vernon Botes. Another accused, Keenen Kruger, was handed a double life sentence for the murder of Botes and another victim, George Stevens.
Voudie was the nephew of Ernest Solomon, a former leader of the 28s gang and whose name was linked to the Terrible Josters gang, who was murdered in Boksburg, Gauteng, in November 2020.
Peter Jaggers connection
Peter Jaggers and William Petersen were recently found murdered in a Free State river. Jaggers was also a Terrible Josters gang boss, which is linked to the 28s gang.
On Wednesday, 16 October 2024, Free State police spokesperson Captain Loraine Earle confirmed that the two bodies had officially been identified as Jaggers and Petersen.
Jaggers and Petersen were allegedly kidnapped after flying from Cape Town to Johannesburg in a situation involving Colombian cocaine; R50-million was apparently demanded for their release.
Jaggers and Petersen, both from Cape Town, went missing in July, and it was suspected that they had irritated Colombian cocaine traffickers who had retaliated.
The pair were linked to a major cocaine consignment that was meant to be fetched from Colombian traffickers off the Cape Town coast earlier this year — but that plan did not go as intended and instead led to a sea rescue — of sorts.
Read more: Suspected 28s gang and cocaine ties to kidnapping case among SA’s latest abduction developments
Jaggers is a familiar name in Cape Town crime circles. A Western Cape Division of the High Court judgment from 2019, which references an applicant sharing Petersen’s name, suggests he too had cropped up in drug-dealing accusations.
Meanwhile, the name of popular TikTokker Suhail Mohamed, also known as “Mr Zulu”, came up in the Padayachee trial. Sergeant Felix, who testified about the 2018 high-speed chase in Laingsburg, told the court that a picture identity parade revealed that the bearded man in the car with Padayachee was Mohamed.
Mohamed was wounded on Monday, 11 November 2024, in Cape Town’s Netreg — this is where Jaggers lived, and parts of it are known as 28s and Terrible Josters gang strongholds.
When Padayachee’s trial starts on 3 February 2025, a police officer will testify if the bearded man in the passenger seat of the VW Polo was indeed Mohamed, who was in the car with Padayachee when they were stopped by police in 2018. DM
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